<VV> corvair content - (sort of)

[Frank DuVal]

What are you trying to listen to? AM, FM, SW (just kidding, nothing 
there any more it seems, except religious broadcasters)?

The FM broadcast band sits between the old TV channel 6 and the still 
current channel 7, so a TV antenna will work for FM use. Put the antenna 
outside of the Faraday Cage* you have for a garage.

AM broadcast band, just a long wire outside will work.

Remember lightning protection.

Ballasts vary greatly. The new lights in my garage tore up the FM band. 
I complained, and Lithonia supplied me new ballasts. You can hear the 
difference on my You Tube videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PisU9VPhCvk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqWH9liYcCk

Frank DuVal

*   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_cage

On 12/30/2015 5:25 PM, Randy Hook via VirtualVairs wrote:
> Question:  Does anyone have any suggestions for an antenna for my garage, where I do all my corvair work?  All I have on my stereo is a couple of pieces of wire.  When the ballast was hosed in one of my shoplights, it worked that way for the most part.  But now that I've had a chance to fix the ballast, I can't get any radio stations worth a flip.  It's weird.  Some days if the garage door is up, I get good reception.  Others, not so much.  I have often theorized that If I had a "real" antenna, then I should be able to get some stations.  But where to look for one.  I tried radio shack and the clerk looked at me like I was on cheap drugs or something.  "Like, what's an antenna?"  It IS a metal garage.  Thoughts, opinions, and ideas welcome.  Thanx
>    
> Randy (Cap'n) Hook
> Hopewell, PA