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As soon as I get a radio shark, I plan to start hacking, just looking for the best price right now. Shipping to Canada seems to be pretty pricy everywhere.
As I remember, AM uses a loop antenna. Often, an AM antenna consists of a core with wire wraped around it (ususally a carbon rod I think with progressive copper windings). I'm sure it's more techinical than this and if I remember properly from my electronics course (looooooong time ago) there are some calculations nessesary for length and number of turns of wire.
Fm works with the single wire antenna, but is even better with the "rabbit ear" style antennaes or two culminated antennas. If I remember correctly, it has to do with the length of the wave (fm is much longer than am), but that's all a little bit too techinical for our purposes here (and that part of my memory is pretty dusty!).
More to follow as I get into it........
BJ
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