Good FM tuner

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Need suggestions for a good FM tuner. Will be connecting to NAD C388. There is some mention of Norge in this forum but haven't found any other information/reviews.
 
Need suggestions for a good FM tuner. Will be connecting to NAD C388. There is some mention of Norge in this forum but haven't found any other information/reviews.
Good tuners are tough to find. You could try the vintage ones with manual or digital tuners. Or with a bit or diy, you could deploy a car hear unit which would come with tuner, volume control, remote, cd player, etc. All you need is an AC to DC converter, available on Amazon or build one.

MaSh
 
Tuners need good FM reception and it is possible to make one by ourselves. The given list of items is needed for the antenna.

  1. 3/8 inch aluminum tube (10mm)
  2. M3 bolt, nut and washers (stainless steel)
Please go through the below article to make one. It is proven to work well and pull the channels with good strength irrespective of the brand of FM tuner.

https://www.hamradio.in/projects/fm-antenna

Regards,
Sriram
 
Tuners need good FM reception and it is possible to make one by ourselves. The given list of items is needed for the antenna.

  1. 3/8 inch aluminum tube (10mm)
  2. M3 bolt, nut and washers (stainless steel)
Please go through the below article to make one. It is proven to work well and pull the channels with good strength irrespective of the brand of FM tuner.

https://www.hamradio.in/projects/fm-antenna

Regards,
Sriram
A Quad...

I had built one for SW reception and pulled in Chennai sitting in Abu Dhabi!!
 
Very surprising to hear sir.

BTW, SW is still available? Can I reuse the same FM antenna for SW as well?
did it a few years back. Now I think AIR phased out many SW stations. Not the same will for SW and FM. Dimensions differ but principle is same. What we usually get in portable radios is a sort of ground plane antenna I think. Some radio specialist here in HVF could chip in.
 
Tuners need good FM reception and it is possible to make one by ourselves. The given list of items is needed for the antenna.

  1. 3/8 inch aluminum tube (10mm)
  2. M3 bolt, nut and washers (stainless steel)
Please go through the below article to make one. It is proven to work well and pull the channels with good strength irrespective of the brand of FM tuner.

https://www.hamradio.in/projects/fm-antenna

Regards,
Sriram
This looks interesting. I used 6 mm copper tubing (used by AC/refrigerator technicians) to make a folded dipole antenna with a balun / matching transformer. It easily pulled stations which are 250+ KMs away with a Tecsun Radio.
Copper tube can be easily bent with hand but not as rigid as aluminum. I would recommend bending the tubes than cutting and joining at 4 corners with fasteners.
Whatever tuner you have, without a good antenna it's not worth investing on a tuner.
 
I bought a VHF / FM connector (75 ohms to 300 ohms) thru Amazon USA about a few months ago.

RG-6 cable is connected to the F-type coax connector (75 ohms) which is then connected to the aforementioned connector in 300 ohms connection.

It works fantastic!

UHF-VHF-FM-75-300-Ohm-TV-Antenna-Adapter-Matching-Transformer-Coaxial-Cable-Television-Coaxia...jpeg
 
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This looks interesting. I used 6 mm copper tubing (used by AC/refrigerator technicians) to make a folded dipole antenna with a balun / matching transformer. It easily pulled stations which are 250+ KMs away with a Tecsun Radio.
Copper tube can be easily bent with hand but not as rigid as aluminum. I would recommend bending the tubes than cutting and joining at 4 corners with fasteners.
Whatever tuner you have, without a good antenna it's not worth investing on a tuner.

This site would help to calculate the dipole antenna length by the radio frequency.

https://www.everythingrf.com/rf-calculators/dipole-antenna-length-calculator
 
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