Anyone have a recommendation for a good indoor or even a small outdoor FM antenna. I'm thinking of canceling XM to save some money and I need something for the house.
IMO, this is the best bet unless all of your stations are in one direction, BUT as the first link will tell you, having dual dipoles in an X-shape isn't a good design anywhere you have multipath (i.e., anywhere you're going to have signals bouncing off hills/buildings and being reflected back to you).
What I actually did was buy this Winegard PR-6010 (now called HD-6010) "omni-directional" antenna and removed one set of dipole arms (and the connecting wires) leaving me with a single standard dipole that was simple to install and designed to be out in the weather. Works great, and the antenna is <$35. I used a 1", 10' long thinwall EMT conduit and clamped it to my chimney to mount it.
This setup will work far better than any $100+ FM antenna that you'll buy from Best Buy or somewhere.
We're talking $3 at Radio Shack, and will do a better job than nearly any other indoor design. It will outperform a $79 Terk handily.
But my experience is that I get much better signal with an outdoor antenna, which I can get much higher and with nothing in my LOS. Plus, I feed it into the house via coax, so I don't have anything visible on the inside wall.
Sorry, but a dipole design is going to give much better performance than a whip. Whips are a compromised design, to allow installations where dipoles aren't practical. For a fixed home antenna, dipoles are easily practical.
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