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Waste of money. A local and powerful FM station that I can get just fine in my basement with a shower radio, would not come in on my upstairs stereo with this antenna. Wish I would have read the reviews first. As someone else stated, this antenna is worse on FM than a cheap twin wire dipole.
I had this for over a year and it is useless.you'd be better off just using speaker wire.
Have gone back to my piece of wire.at least that didn't have to be plugged in to a wall socket. I saw no increase in signal strength or ability to get stations that I couldn't pick up with just a peice of wire. Was very disappointed.
It's going back to the store tomorrow. Adjusting the gain dial did nothing. Don't buy this. I bought it to specifically pull in an AM station and I got better reception from the cheap little loop antenna that came with the stereo.
I didn't understand the problem, and at first blamed the receiver. Well, that pretty much proves the thing is doing nothing aside from taking up living room space to me.Well, it's my Dad's antenna and he got it a few years ago, so we're not getting a refund. He was getting poor FM reception, so I connected his Terk antenna, but it didn't improve the signal.
I unplugged it from the wall, same reception. I went and bought a simple wire dipola antenna from Radio Shack for $6 and at least it works.If you want a noticable improvement in your FM reception, buy a good outdoor antenna from a real antenna company like ChannelMaster or Winegard, or save some money and buy a dipole indoor antenna for a few dollars. Finally, I disconnected the antenna entirely from the receiver, and the FM didn't get any worse.
My father has one of these, and over the course of a recent move, I helped him reinstall his Bang & Olufsen stereo system. I changed the gain, same reception. But don't get this Terk unless you want static and hiss out of your radio.
There was a lot of noise and distortion, and the receiver couldn't seem to get a lock on any local stations. But I really couldn't believe a $5,000 piece of electronics could be that bad, even if it was 20 year old.I moved the antenna, same reception.
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