FM antennas.............Does ANBODY still make them?


Recently picked up a nice Onkyo 9090 II tuner. It’s reputed to be one of the better DXR’s out there, very good sensitivity. Haven’t hooked it up yet, but I’d like to connect it to a good FM antenna...................I spent much of the day online looking for one and basically came up empty. None of the big guys make them anymore, Channel Master, Winegard, etc............My location is problematic. I’m in the woods, surrounded by tall trees and there is a nice mountain rising several hundred feet above me to the East and South East, the direction most stations come from. There are a few small omni’s out there, but I really need something better than that for my location.

Today everybody uses cable and yes, I know that you can pull in a gazzillion stations and any kind of music that you want that way...........but I’m old school.......and old. I like tuning things in and playing with the gear..........cable is no fun.

Surely somebody has a source for good FM antennas.............or plans to build one.

I hate cable. Everything used to be free. Today everything costs $$ and you get a ton of stuff that you don’t even care about, for a price.

Any ideas out there??
shadowcat2016

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@ shadow, rem to ground the antenna chassis, another good addition is a inline surge protector but choose that well, most hinder the reception. get the better one one from pixel or dynalab or equivalent. Do not use the power strip coax surge protector, they are the worst.
Topic got my interest so I did a lil more reading other than what I’ve read before. Fmtunerinfo has a antenna section, it’ll link you to Carvers TX-11b manual’s antenna input which is interesting. Gave me a whole different way of looking at it. I did not know that the coax restricted the reception. It seems the yagi style antenna is best, while another site suggested the old rca wabbit ears being worthwhile for the older FM tuners. All of the tuners I’ve owned have done very well with that outside Pixel and coax except for my modded Sansui TU-717, I figured the old man buggered the reception so it’s in the shop for an alignment. Shop says the old man did a fantastic job modding it but they would go ahead with the alignment. Now I read it’s all in my antenna setup...lulz. We’ll see when I get that one back.