Originally Posted by mjdj1689:
“Can you please tell me what some of you are using to get these distant fm stations please ?
Do you have a roof rotating aerial ?
Thank you.”
“Can you please tell me what some of you are using to get these distant fm stations please ?
Do you have a roof rotating aerial ?
Thank you.”
I use a number of fixed aerials pointing in different directions. I received all the low power stations on a 3 element vertical Moxon aerial pointing east(home-built) as they are generally vertically polarised. It helps that I'm in the south-east of England for distance and the aerial has a wide beamwidth (+/- 60 deg).
For horizontal polarisation I have two 5 element array - one facing east and the other facing South-south east. Plus a 3 ele facing north-east. Plus a 3 ele loft aerial facing south - oh and not to forget a horizontal dipole for the 65-74 MHz frequencies used by Eastern Europe.
It sounds a bit OTT but it was cheaper than a rotator and it means I can monitor different directions simultaneously. As one of the 5 ele aerials is on the front of the house with the TV aerial it blends in with everybody else's TV aerials and dishes. The other with the three aerials is on the back of the house and replaced the existing TV aerial.
If you can manage a 3 to 4 ele horizontal aerial - mounted in the clear outside and facing roughly south-east I think you would be well equipped for picking up SpE signals from a lot of Europe - even better if you do put it on a rotator.
A vertical aerial is needed for The Netherlands and for quite a number of the Flemish speaking Belgian stations.
David
Sittingbourne




I look forward to your bandscan.
- the pre-amp is oscillating at some frequency and I'm finding images of the stronger stations around 9.5MHz away e.g. Heart 102.8 is showing up on 91.35 and BBC R1 89.1 on 98.5. It only showed up when I carefully tuned the whole of the band.