Terk FM-50 Indoor/Outdoor Dual-Drive Amplified FM Antenna (Terk FM50)
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Manufacturer: TerkModel: FM50
Product features:
- Audiovox Terk FM-50 Indoor/Outdoor Amplified FM Audio Antenna
- Audiovox AF1 AM/FM Amplified Stereo Antenna
- Terk Technology AF9330 AM/FM Antenna Tower
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Customer Review: Wow - It Really Works Great!
Summary: 5 Stars
The bottom line is that it works great! I am using it without the amplifier. It works like FM (F...... Magic). It worked great behind my entertainment center, but it works even better up in my attic. Actually I just set up my stereo in my house. My boom box worked great for radio reception there. But I could not get good FM reception on the receiver no matter what I did. I even set up my old stereo receiver from back in the 80's. It did not get a good signal either. I thought this is ridiculous. I have an expensive receiver, I am an Electrical Engineer, and I can't get my radio to work??? I went to Radio Shack and a few of the high end stereo stores in my area. I got the same story I got a few years ago when I first set up the same receiver in my apartment but got bad reception. The "Tweeter" folks said "well they just don't put the money into the FM portion of the tuners." This seemed plausible but since my old receive didn't get good reception either, and my boom box did, I wasn't satisfied. They even said that I would have the same problem with the best Denon receiver they sell. They were nice enough to try and sell me and XM radio receiver though! Great solution right? I got on the internet and did some research. There really wasn't a good clear answer but I was lead to believe it had to do with the selectivity of the tuner. I guess a boom box tuner is not very selective but will get an OK signal just about anywhere. But a stereo receive apparently has high selectivity to get a better signal. The down side is that if it doesn't get a good signal, you basically get nothing. My neighbor had one of these Terk type sticks that said Radio Shack on it and her receiver worked great. This is interesting since Radio Shack does not carry the product any more, and also interesting because the Radio Shack guy told me that the FM boosters almost never worked. I tried one and he was correct. I was soooooooo happy to get my FM receiver working with the Terk antenna that I got interested in HD radio. I bought the Sangean product and it worked fine except for the bright blue screen, and it has a huge ugly digital clock. Where is the button to turn that off? Options please! Better yet they should have put a standard display on it in the first place. Well the Terk antenna almost eliminated the need for the tuner to default to regular FM. HD having to revert back to standard FM when the HD signal faded was one of the downers that I read about on the internet. Some people said it happened a lot. Although under impressed with HD, I will keep it to get good AM reception. Don't miss-understand, HD does work good but maybe I just have to get used to it. I wasn't a purist that had a problem with CD sound over albums when CD's first came out. Remember those guys? Maybe I am just used to the fuller midrange sounds from the way standard FM is mixed for transmission. I used the Terk AM 1000 antenna with the HD receive as well. The Terk AM antenna made the regular AM radio work great all by itself. But just not as clear as HD AM. For talk radio HD AM is like the guy is sitting right there in the room. It was amazing to find that HD AM gets turned off at night. For a while I could not understand why I wasn't getting any HD AM at night???? It turns out that the signal is so strong that at night it travels farther and interferes with HD AM in nearby towns. Supposedly the FCC made a rule that HD AM can not be broadcast at night. Ya would have thought the big brains would have figured that one out technically before they approved and set up the system "ALL AROUND THE COUNTRY." A big round of Duhhhhhhhh! for the designers please!
Description of Terk FM-50 Indoor/Outdoor Dual-Drive Amplified FM Antenna (Terk FM50)
Terk in/out door dual dramplifed fm ant-fm pro amplifed fm ant-fm pro -indoor or outdoor mountable with weatherproof housing -remotely switchable amplifier compensates for varying reception conditions -advanced capture circuitry -up to 11db gain -76 w x 2 1/2 h x 1 1/4 dDigital Cameras & Photo Categories
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