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More detailed information may be found in ARRL and RSGB volumes
intended for the amateur radio community. Armed with some basic test
equipment you can consistently beat antenna solutions offered in the
high end market with wire, insulators, or baluns, or if room permits
the erection of a commercially made antenna and rotor built for the TV
or Amateur markets. Many perfectly good Yagi antenna and rotor setups
were installed in the sixties, seventies and eighties and are in disuse
due to cable TV and satellite installs. If installed under a roof as
many were they may be in excellent condition and awaiting repurposing ,
especially those specifically designed for FM band reception (as most
were).

The Yagi is a wideband, low gain design.
It will undoubtedly work better than a folded dipole.
However, Radio Shack has a very nice FM beam, p/n 15-2163
http://www.radioshack.com/product.as...t%5Fid=15-2163
for $25 !
Many people have hung these from high ceilings as mobiles. Alternately, the
antenna can be tacked to a wall.
Because the directionality vastly reduces multipath, it can provide better
reception even if aiming it at the strongest signal is not possible.