FM radio with good reception

does the truck radio work if you move around the yard to a different location ??

If it happens to be a steel shed run the wire up and attach it to the roof. Then your whole shed should be an antenna. Wire antennas do work well if they are long and high enough, a wire hooked to my steel shed did wonders for a short wave I use. When they plugged Saddam's sons I knew it 12 hours before anybody else did because I listened to BBC the night before.

that's why I asked about the TRUCK... most have decent radios... have heard of mounting them in the barn with a converter....... but if you have NO RECEPTION in the truck as it moves around the yard, then there might be a bigger problem... If your in a HOLE, the waves might go right over your head.... antenna up HIGH on the roof or tower, or similar might be a good idea.

kinda like TV reception, 4 channels from Omaha at 20 miles away, and 3 channels from Sioux City 75 sum miles away and we gits better reception from Sioux City! radio stations are no problem here

AM radiowaves follow the curve of the earth better than FM, that means you have better access/reception with AM and for a lot longer distance. I could pick up 890- WLS out of Chicgo in El Paso on most evenings.

Got two choices and that is to run a wire outside the shed and the other is to mount a car antenna on the outside and run the wire to the radio.  A metal shed acts like a faraday shield and will block most all signals.

Walker wrote: If it happens to be a steel shed run the wire up and attach it to the roof. Then your whole shed should be an antenna. Wire antennas do work well if they are long and high enough, a wire hooked to my steel shed did wonders for a short wave I use. When they plugged Saddam's sons I knew it 12 hours before anybody else did because I listened to BBC the night before.

Tbone, if ya got a new shed with each piece of metal making contact and ground with the next it will. If ya got an old rusty thing odds are it won't and with the wire going to the roof you are already higher to start with ergo better signal. Am radio waves are in a sine like waves on an ocean FM are in a straight line that's why with AM when you put a car in a building you lose the part of the sine that is above the roof = signal fizzles but FM will continue pumping out the boogie baby. But whoever said it AM will carry farther. It amounts to the same thing as electricity and AC DC. Edison electric plant couldn't be more than a few miles apart and Tesla figured he could basically shoot AC in lightning bolts from a central tower he built his in New Joisey but scared hell out of the populace and he abandoned it. Look up Tesla Death Ray.

Edited by Walker - 01 May 2018 at 8:56pm

Stan come on over some evening and I'll turn oh my shed and short wave and let you listen to Radio Hanoi, Radio Moscow, BBC just about anything you'd like to hear. All this and right straight through my Faraday shield.

A radio can not pull any more than the antenna can deliver. It can clarify, refine, and separate the frequencies better from one radio to the next but the signal is only at a certain strength depending on the wattage of that particular license to broadcast. It's all in your andetandy pal.

Your clock radio is an example of cheap parts and building in todays world, the HiFy is an example of good parts and building in yesterdays world. I would guess the HiFy was an expensive one for its time when new but like I said a big part of the difference your seeing in the two is because of the antenna.

Walker wrote: Tbone, if ya got a new shed with each piece of metal making contact and ground with the next it will. If ya got an old rusty thing odds are it won't and with the wire going to the roof you are already higher to start with ergo better signal.<--That makes sense.  -->The rest of this, I already knew. Am radio waves are in a sine like waves on an ocean FM are in a straight line that's why with AM when you put a car in a building you lose the part of the sine that is above the roof = signal fizzles but FM will continue pumping out the boogie baby. But whoever said it AM will carry farther. It amounts to the same thing as electricity and AC DC. Edison electric plant couldn't be more than a few miles apart and Tesla figured he could basically shoot AC in lightning bolts from a central tower he built his in New Joisey but scared hell out of the populace and he abandoned it. Look up Tesla Death Ray.

If you don't mind me asking, what kind of sound quality are you looking for?  You didn't say if you were piping the signal into an old hifi system or if you just want a three-inch speaker out of your radio.

If you just want to have a good old fashioned shop radio sound, I personally haven't used a better radio than a Grundig, but they can get a little spendy.  If you can find an old GE Superradio (spelling?) they were awesome and they had really good AM and FM reception.  I bought my mom a Radio Shack portable because it had really good reception and big knobs, but I don't recommend that option because the darned thing is always losing its presets.  It sounds really good, though.

If you are lucky enough to find a yard sale hifi system at a yard sale for a few bucks, even better. 

Most of the better portables as well as even cheap hifi systems will support an external antenna, so again, you have lots of really good choices. 

Walker wrote: Tbone, then you should have mentioned that before you asked. Stan, do tell. Did I ever mention the wire running up inside the building?

Edited by Tbone95 - 03 May 2018 at 6:33am

Walker wrote: I may have over explained my answer but going by your question which boiled down to does antenna height affect reception you do not have a grasp of the subject. I then decided we would begin your education at the basic level right down there around teaching a dog to speak or what to do with a stick of gum. Google is your friend you should use it more.

Edited by Tbone95 - 04 May 2018 at 7:58am