Making FM Dipole Antenna

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Date: 02/11/05 

Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 02:54:31 -0600

I live out in the boonies and it's hard to get decent Radio stations,
especially since I live in a home with metal siding and roofing. I
dont want to spend anything on this project, just use some of the odds
and ends I got laying around, and plan to put this on a board and
mount it outside with coax coming in the house.

I found the simple plans on this website.
http://www.northcountryradio.com/Articles/fmdip.htm

The only problem is that I dont have any of those ferrite rods or
toroids. However, I got one of those outdoor converter devices for tv
antennas that have 2 spade clips on the wires on one end, and a coax
connector on the other. (made to convert a tv antenna to coax). Can
I just hook the two wires from this converter to the two home-made
antenna wires and run my coax into the house?

And, just for the heck of it, I have an old busted tv antenna. Would
it work to use 2 of the "rods" from the antenna (length as shown in
the website), and screw them to a piece of plaxiglass in the middle as
an insulator? That way I can mount it on a nearby tree.

Thanks all

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