Multiplex Tuner Repair

Two questions:

1) in your apartment building, are the window and door frames made of metal, as these frames are often regulated to be in most major cities? If such is the case, no indoor antenna will ever bring in the stations in stereo halfway decently. Sorry ... that's the physics of it. It may also be that the classical station does not broadcast at a particularly high wattage.

2) what are you presently using as an antenna?

Rich

What I suspected ... metal window frames. In three words ... lots of luck.

You need an outdoor antenna ... window sill placement can be iffy, roof placement would be ideal. Can not imagine your building being ok with attaching anything to the facade, that is usually a municipal violation, as facade attachments are associated with falling bricks.

If I include the years working with my dad in his TV repair shop that had tin ceilings, no less, then this has been my experience for the past 50 years. I have given up on using receivers, all together.

Will your building allow you to place an antenna on the roof? Does the local cable company provide antenna hook-up?

On the plus side, you have good mono reception.

Rich

It is all about reception. It may help to view the reception dilemma in the following way ... if several people were throwing balls at you at the same time ... it would be easier to catch one ball (mono) as opposed to two or more balls (stereo) at the same time. Also, the balls would not be thrown to you at the same speed. That is what you are asking your tuner and antenna to do and produce audiophile quality sound, at the same time.

The easiest thing to do and the one thing that would have the best chance of succeeding is to ask your management company if you can install the following on the building's roof, AnntennaCraft FM6 .

If the building already allows FIOS or DirecTV or Dish Network to install antennas on the roof, this type of antenna should be allowed.

The physics behind this is simple ... an antenna which has a direct line of sight to the radio signal will do a pretty good job of reproducing the sound.

The MD ST2 is very similar to the old style car radio antennas that were mounted vertically off to the side of the front or rear hood. That is pretty much how you would install this antenna.

You could place the antenna in a vertical position in a room corner near your tuner and see if it improves the situation any. Bracketing a 5 foot antenna vertically to a window sill may catch management's attention though. The ground, I believe, can be attached to a radiator, pipe, or outlet box.

My focus on management attention is because I am a coop board president and deal with this fairly often, as NYC takes facade attachments very seriously for multiple dwellings ... a $2500 fine per occurrence if outside of NYC regulations.

Rich

From the installation instructions for the , MD ST2 :

If the antenna is installed outdoors, it is recommended that the cable be run through a ‘static discharge unit’ or ‘grounding block’ that can be connected via a ground wire to a nearby earth ground, such as a grounding rod or water pipe.

Can you run the ground to a fire escape or other metal on the outside.

Rich