What + experience have you had with an indoor FM antenna?


Right now, I cannot do an outdoor antenna, so thinking of adding an indoor one.  I had the Magnum Dynalab indoor antenna and would say it was O.K. ....I have not been very interested in amplified antennas.  I am not in a good FM area and find online FM to be limited in sound quality, frequency response...and way too much talk...even some esoteric online seem to have hosts/D.J.s that cannot shut up and play music. 

jusam
      If you can mount an outdoor antenna in the highest point of your attic* and aimed (best as possible) at the desired stations, it would help.

      Or: an outdoor Omni, up there*.

      Not being anywhere close to a decent FM station can suck.

      That was one of the very few benefits of living in Cleveland, O. 

      
 It really all depends on location.

 FWIW, I have found the Magnum Dynalab  SR100 to work very well in various locations:

  FM Antennas - dipole vertical fm antenna and silver ribbon antenna (magnumdynalab.com)

IME, even better than their more expensive ST-2.  A tweak hack for the SR100 is to shorten the built in twin lead cable and attach a balun transformer as close as possible to the antenna segments and then connect a quad insulated RG-6 co-axial cable from balun transformer to the tuner. The antenna segments have sharp edges; so it might not be best around children

  For much less money, I have also had some success with a Radio Shack Cat. No. 15-1874 TV  telescopic rabbit ears antenna. This comes with an approximately 4' long non-detachable RG-59 co-axial cable.
Pretty awful, even up in the loft, but this was 30 years ago.

Apparently the best way to go was to fit an outdoor roof mounted rotating unit back then.

One for the real afficinados I think.

Strangely enough I got some decent results experimenting with different cables stuck to the wall.

I used to find a weak station and then experiment with different cables and positions.

I can say without a doubt, at least when it came to picking up FM stations, that not all cables were the same.

Rather frustratingly, the signal would improve whilst I was holding the wire antenna, bit as soon as I’d let go...



https://www.radio4all.org/how-to-improve-fm-signal-on-radio-with-a-single-wire-antenna/