[Doug McDonald]

Peter Wieck wrote:

And, on that line, how would even the best FM tuner solve for distant
stations without at least a reasonably decent (and directional)
antenna?


Overload by local stations. I live 1/4 mile from a 50 kW station
on 97.5. I want to listen to 90.9, 100 kW 22 miles away or
101.1, 300 watts 2.5 miles away. A directional antenna
won't help if the tuner picks up enough internally on 97.5 to
overload it when tuned to the other frequency.

I have a 70's Sony expensive dedicated tuner and the tuner
in a JVC surround receiver. The Sony is marginally capable
of good reception if the case is on perfectly tightly
and a dipole/reflector antenna set for a null on 97.5.
But its not listenable. The surround set is hopeless, alone.
What DOES work is an antenna fed into
a triple-tuned preselector and thence to a 25 dB gain amplifier,
then into the receivers, with good shielded coax between preselector
and shielded amp. This produces
enough signal to get around the 97.5 on either receiver.

Doug McDonald