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<p>[QUOTE="Piggie, post: 21313, member: 2941"]In the 70's FM was fairly new. We had one low power rock FM in Gainesville. It was ok, better than nothing. Tampa had a kick butt station from U of S Florida. We would beam it late at night when they switched from classical to rock after midnight. Right after that Florida State University put up a 24/7 rock station so we swung the beam there and left it. </p><p></p><p>Even now Gainesville has a soft rock, decent rock, and a classic. But Jacksonville has much better rock, playing more new stuff. </p><p></p><p>FM travels much better than TV. If you have a decent boom box, you can hear the 100KW Jacksonville stations in Gainesville at 60 miles on a single whip by finding a sweet spot. Then there are apts and houses or worse trailers that don't have an indoor sweet spot. A simple FMSS will pull them in. If someone wants to do a tiny big of work just putting rabbit ears on the balcony, or a twin lead folded dipole outside will do the trick. A friend of mine can't pull in anything in his metal building in his yard that is is work shop. He put a FMSS on a short pole, just 10 ft and gets everything in 60 plus miles.[/QUOTE]</p><p></p>
[QUOTE="Piggie, post: 21313, member: 2941"]In the 70's FM was fairly new. We had one low power rock FM in Gainesville. It was ok, better than nothing. Tampa had a kick butt station from U of S Florida. We would beam it late at night when they switched from classical to rock after midnight. Right after that Florida State University put up a 24/7 rock station so we swung the beam there and left it. Even now Gainesville has a soft rock, decent rock, and a classic. But Jacksonville has much better rock, playing more new stuff. FM travels much better than TV. If you have a decent boom box, you can hear the 100KW Jacksonville stations in Gainesville at 60 miles on a single whip by finding a sweet spot. Then there are apts and houses or worse trailers that don't have an indoor sweet spot. A simple FMSS will pull them in. If someone wants to do a tiny big of work just putting rabbit ears on the balcony, or a twin lead folded dipole outside will do the trick. A friend of mine can't pull in anything in his metal building in his yard that is is work shop. He put a FMSS on a short pole, just 10 ft and gets everything in 60 plus miles.[/QUOTE]
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