Yes, left a lot out. I am not sure how detailed, or long, to make these posts. I guess the point is that the splitters work well. I have the Shakespeare unit installed with a Shakespeare loaded whip. I was commenting that if the FM reception is poor it may not be the splitter causing the problem.
Michael Brown Windburn C&C 30-1 Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 09:46:54 -0500 From: Bill Bina - gmail <billbinal...@gmail.com> To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Subject: Re: Stus-List FM antenna? Message-ID: <56d6fcde.2070...@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"; Format="flowed" There are some vital points left out of this analysis. A horizontal dipole antenna is only superior when aimed accurately at the particular station you want to hear. It is very directional. A vertical antenna is less focused as far as interference, but is omni directional, which is far superior when the listening station is one that moves and turns. Does anyone remember the brief period when embedded dipole windshield antennas in cars were a "thing"? Everyone got over that failed experiment pretty quickly, and went back to vertical whips. How well do you suppose a horizontal antenna would work for your VHF? :-) Bill Bina On 3/2/2016 9:33 AM, Michael Brown via CnC-List wrote: > The splitter works well, worth the price. > > There are some technical challenges to consider. A VHF antenna will be > tuned > ( some better than others ) to 157 MHz. FM is 88 - 108 MHz. The better the > VHF antenna the less FM signal strength it will pass through. The FM > station > has a choice of polarizing the signal vertically, horizontally, most > do both. > The vertical whip antenna picks up the vertical version, which is > considered > to be more susceptible to interference. > > It may be that a FM specific dipole will work as well. > > http://www.ebay.com/itm/PHILMORE-5035-DIPOLE-FM-ANTENNA-w-MOTOROLA-PLUG-FITS-VINTAGE-VHF-SCANNERS-/151928946680 > > > 28.5" each side is the correct length for FM. > > In the style of YMMV, if you have a well tuned VHF antenna with a 50' > run to the spiltter, then another 10' run to > the radio trying to pick up a "college" station around 88 MHz with > horizontal polarization is not going to work well. > > Michael Brown > Windburn > C&C 30-1
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