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I live in a difficult reception area and the absolute best thing you can
do to ensure quality FM reception is to mount a good external FM-only
antenna on a rotor above your roof. As one of the regular contributors
to the FM group is fond of saying, no home is complete without an FM
antenna over the roof :-)

The Terk is a piece of ****, like Bose speakers.

A "T" shaped folded dipole antenna mounted on two yardsticks shaped like
a "T" will give you better reception and you can turn the yardstick for
a bit of directionality. It just doesn't look very elegant.

If you cannot put an antenna above your roof, you can put one in your
attic on a rotor if you are not going to use a metal roof or use metal
trusses in your attic or if you are not building a steel home.

Forget putting anything in your wall as an antenna. You never know when
you might want to put a metal piece of furniture in front of it, like a
wine rack, etc., and that will kill the reception of the antenna.


wrote:
I currently have a Terk amplified antenna for both AM and FM reception.
The improvement is good but not dramatic. I tried another model with
similar results.

We will be building a new home soon. My inclination is to purchase an
aerial antenna and assemble it in the attic. This should provide more
dramatic results on the FM band (or so I have read). My question here is
"What should I do to provide an AM signal boost?" Can i lace a loop
style antenna in a wall prior to the drywall being hung? Do i need to
provide a loop antenna in the attic? Is it irrelevant since neither
would be on an exterior wall?

Your help is gratefully appreciated.

Scott