FM radio antenna - Connect to cable??

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I just bought a very nice Radio/CD system. It has all I want but has NO antenna connections. It has an internal antenna for AM which is adequate. It has a single wire as a FM antenna. There are no connections for am or fm antennas!!!

I am in an area with NO fm reception. I do have cable, however, which carries a large number of FM stations.

I have contacted the vendor seeking advice and they only suggested returning the item.

Can you offer any ideas about how to connect this single wire antenna to the cable? Please reply to the e-mail address.

Thanks.

Eric

John A. Weeks III · Accepted Answer

Here are two things to try...(1) Strip off a little piece of the single wire.  Then connect analligator clip jumper to this wire, and the other end to the centerwire of the coax.  Note that this will leave a live cable TV signalwith an unshielded conductor, which will probably radiate.  This could cause problems if you have neighbors, but if you don't haveanyone close, then don't worry about it.(2) Try getting a coax to flat cable transformer.  Connect the coax endto your cable.  Connect one wire of the flat cable to the single wirecoming out of the radio.  Connect the other side to the ground traceon the circuit board.-john--- ====================================================================John A. Weeks III            952-432-2708         Newave Communications

John Fields · Answer

---Call the cable company.  They probably run into this kind of thingevery day and can supply you with a splitter/filter and even hook itup for you.  Or, more likely, they'll _want_ to hook it up for you soyou won't be screwing around with their stuff.  -- John Fields

Peter Bennett · Answer

I've used a coax-to-twinlead adaptor - connect one of the twinleadterminals to the radio's antenna, and the other terminal to any handyground terminal on the radio.-- Peter Bennett, VE7CEI  peterbb4 (at)   new newsgroup users info :  and NMEA info:  Power Squadron:

Watson A.Name - "Watt Sun, th · Answer

NOIt has awhich carriesreturningantenna to theThat's really bad advice.  Don't worry about it until the cable companytruck drives by with the cable leakage sensing equipment in it.  Then itwill stop at your location and pick up the leakage, and you'll be introuble with the cable company.  Not to worry.  They'll just cut offyour cable service, among other punitive actions.end

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