Tuner - FM over the air - suggestions

@mahler123 "but prefer the digital feed, which is crisper and not prone to weather related dropouts" or when the basement of the Willis Tower gets flooded, and the 98.7 FM signal temporarily goes off the air (May 2020). 

I hope you like commercials!! Current over the air raiding ain’t what you remember it being 10 years ago. All the stations are owned by three corporate conglomerates. In the chicago are you can tune to four stations back and forth to hear the same artist or songs at the same time. Then a commercial break starts so you think you can go to another station to not hear them? Nope they all run commercials at the same time. Then like tv you are lucky to get 35 minutes of music per hour. 

start with a great antenna/strong signal. I put a large TV antenna in the attic just for FM (all FM is between channel 6 and 7 I think). Hung from strings from rafters. Aimed at WBGO's antenna which turns out to be in NYC I learned here.

 

 

Bob Carver is a genius, unique FM patents.

Mine did not have remote, this model does

 

others of his probably exist with remotes. they are terrific

this one, preamp with tuner, read the small print https://www.ebay.com/itm/134230115648?hash=item1f40bd0540:g:BcYAAOSwmYFjH69s

has remote https://www.ebay.com/itm/275451163068?hash=item40222b31bc:g:VMYAAOSw1uljGRMN

Thank god somebody mentioned getting a good antenna, and putting it up in the attic. I am still kicking myself for not doing this until this year. Fiddled with a number of tuners and indoor antennas. If you don't have a good signal the rest is crap. But I live in the middle of now where.

 

 Also, OTA doesn't cost, in spite of the commercials. Streaming doesn't seem like much of a bargain to me. NPR is still free.