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In Reply to: overpowering BAD station nearby!! posted by jsjazz on November 11, 2006 at 05:48:06:
A bigger antenna will have more sensitivity and probably a little better directionality. The extra gain (sensitivity) is undesirable for your situation. I would guess that the gain in directionality wouldn't be much. You've already tried rotating your antenna all over the place.One possibility is to get the high-gain antenna and point it directly at the desired station's transmitter. That should provide the highest ratio of desired signal to undesired signal. It will probably also swamp your tuner's front end. So you will need to build a simple resistor network (2 resistors) that attenuate the signals (both the desired and undesired signals) while maintaining the signal's impedance and the ratio of the two signals' strength.
As a last result, you could try getting a tuner that has selective IF bandwidth. The idea is that limiting IF bandwidth greatly improves adjacent channel rejection, which is your issue, while affecting bandpass for the desired signal only a little. Put another way, narrow IF doesn't sound as good as wideband IF, but if you need it, that's the way it goes.
Do you have other options, like cable, XM, or Sirius?
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