I am going to buy a FDM-S2 receiver and will be looking for a antenna for it.
I live in a six story Apartment building, I live on the Fourth floor of the building and I am facing North also my fourth floor balcony is facing North.
I can not put anything on the roof (damn) so that's out of the question.
I do have a Discone antenna sitting out on the balcony for my scanner radio and can use this for shortwave I have had pretty good reception in the shortwave bands before and I may get better reception with the FDM-S2 ???? maybe.
I have tried wire antenna's before inside and out on the balcony but was not to impressed with the results, I found the Discone seemed to work the best.
The balcony is around 10 foot high and around 14 foot long
I could put a vertical antenna up, I do not want to make my own, I would rather buy a good grade antenna from a distributor, I am not into making things anymore.
I am hearing that the FDM-S2 is good picking out weak signal and I know location and your antenna go a long way at what you will hear and also propagation is critical.
Steve
I live in a six story Apartment building, I live on the Fourth floor of the building and I am facing North also my fourth floor balcony is facing North.
I can not put anything on the roof (damn) so that's out of the question.
I do have a Discone antenna sitting out on the balcony for my scanner radio and can use this for shortwave I have had pretty good reception in the shortwave bands before and I may get better reception with the FDM-S2 ???? maybe.
I have tried wire antenna's before inside and out on the balcony but was not to impressed with the results, I found the Discone seemed to work the best.
The balcony is around 10 foot high and around 14 foot long
I could put a vertical antenna up, I do not want to make my own, I would rather buy a good grade antenna from a distributor, I am not into making things anymore.
I am hearing that the FDM-S2 is good picking out weak signal and I know location and your antenna go a long way at what you will hear and also propagation is critical.
Steve