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Antonio J. wrote :

"...I'm using an indoor antenna which in fact is a small car antenna, placed besides a window. The good part is that I can move the antenna and get the orientation that yields stronger signal. I'm living in an 11th floor in a building of 13, I don't have a balcony and the community wouldn't allow me to put a ddicated antenna on the roof, nor the building's outer wall. I get the active from the car antenna to feed the center of the coaxial wire and this carries the signal into the coax antenna input in the receiver. With this very challenged system I manage to get good stations at about 80 to 90% of signal, but still there's some noise. Good days it's pretty quiet, but others is terrible and I rather listen in mono..."

Back when I lived on the 17th & 18th floors of a highrise (the case up until just three weeks ago) I had the same problem. To make matters worse, "my" high-rise was surounded by other such tall buildings. I solved the problem by using a Godar Model 1 indoor antenna (used in my case with a modified Sansui TU9900). You might want try such an antenna. They are not expensive, industructable and very light-weight, so should be no trouble to ship form the US.

The Model 1 was particular in that it had in addition to a periodic log array antenna, a couple of telescopic rods that could be aimed in the direction of the transmitting tower, or lined up to make a long dipole. Such a model is no longer available; the Model 1 has been replaced by the Model 2A; I can't speak for the performance of the new model, but I doubt that Mr. Godar would replace the Model 1 with a design that did not perform as well or better... In any case, he does answer emails and telephone calls...

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