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We live very rural Northern Rockies deep in a mountain valley. I've never been able to pick up squat with a normal wire / dipole. Or in our vehicles for that matter. We are at 1900 feet surrounded by peaks up to 8600 feet. Closest stations are NPR and very weak low power transmitters. One is roughly 25 miles away behind a mountain the other 35 miles or so behind another mountain the other way. Closest high power commercial stations are 80-100 miles in two different directions.I first tried a Winegard HD-6010 HD FM Radio Antenna with less than acceptable results. Went from zero stations to half a dozen or so but still quite a bit of static. Decide to try this. It's cheap enough that I was willing to take a chance. The ANTENNACRAFT 70 FM is without question a big step above. With turning / tuning it the proper direction I can pick up at least a dozen stations now. The NPR's are good quality and a few of the high power commercial stations are very clear. Sound quality is greatly increased in comparison. While I still haven't completely eliminated static and noise it's at least down to tolerable levels. This is not a critical listening radio so the bother is minimal. Should have just used this one to begin with. If you're debating the two don't bother with the smaller Winegard. Just go with this one and be done. Easy to mount. Took all of 5 minutes.In our situation I don't think FM reception could get any better without a higher mast. Right now this is 25 feet in the air.If you're rural and need a solution go for it. It's cheap enough. Put it up high. The higher the better.

We live at a 3,000-foot elevation in an Allegheny Mountain Chain valley. We're smack in the middle of what is known as a "radio quiet zone" that is designated to minimize RF interference with various radio-telescopes in our area. Consequently, there's only one local FM station we can receive with a conventional pocket radio. Most other stations not blocked by mountain ridges that rise 1,000 feet on either sides of our valley are 90 or more miles south. That, coupled with the fact we have signal-shielding aluminium siding, meant having to do some research in order to accomplish the mission of getting terrestrial FM reception inside our house.Granted, we could just listen to streamed radio stations. But there's something intangibly better about listening to a real radio that I like much more than Internet radio. We have our favorites on the web but it's just not the same as real FM radio.I started by following a recommendation that made sense. Car radios generally are many times better at picking up signals than a tabletop or pocket radio could ever hope. I purchased a used Pioneer CD AM-FM with good FM reception specs, an old Wasburn guitar speaker cabinet, a ac/dc transformer and a new 8-inch wide range speaker driver. Once pieced together, I installed a cheapo am/fm car antenna on an eve bracket with a homemade PVC fitting. At least we could get FM reception in our house, but it was limited to our lonely local station.After a year of listening to the same station, it was time for a little variety. This product was delivered on time and was installed yesterday on the same mast bracket along with a rotator and 10 feet of mast. The product performance exceeds expectations and helps bring distant stations in clearly. We now can listen to more than a dozen stations. Mission accomplished! Highly recommended for fringe area reception.

This six-element FM Yagi antenna replaced an older-style FM and VHF-TV antenna which, over the 30+ years of its service on our chimney, had lost 15 of its 17 original elements. Since we are cable TV subscribers, we only need to provide a good FM signal to the receiver feeding ceiling speakers in our kitchen. An Internet search turned up the Antennacraft 70. Construction is completely conventional, and one "assembles" the antenna by unfolding the elements away from the square cross-section boom until they snap into position perpendicular to the boom. While the antenna's performance is quite acceptable, it receives four out of five stars for two reasons: 1. The purchaser must supply the required 75 ohm to 300 ohm balun (impedance matching transformer) and 2. The boom wall is just a little too thin for my comfort, and it's too easy to tighten the U-bolt fastening the antenna to the mast to the point of deforming the boom. Nevertheless, since the price was attractive and 4:1 baluns are readily available at a reasonable cost (under $10), I do recommend this antenna.

I had trouble getting a clear signal for the FM radio station that broadcasts my NFL team's game, and due to NFL restrictions that local broadcast is NOT available online anywhere, including the stations website, I Heart Radio or Pandora. Like many people I like the option of listening to my local radio announcers rather than the network yahoos call the game. Yeah, syncing the audio and video is another issue that I had solved already but the first thing I needed was a good strong, clear FM signal no matter what the weather or time of day. After trying all kinds of antennas I finally got this puppy and put it up on the chimney. I pointed the antenna toward the physical location of the radio stations tower (using an iPad mapping app) and holy 1960 Batman, it worked like a charm! You WILL need to buy a few extras (bare wire to 75 ohm coax converter, coax lightning surge suppressor, shielded 75 ohm coax cable, extra mounting hardware) as others have mentioned.