gofar99 Messages: 1907 Registered: May 2010 Location: Southern Arizona
Illuminati (5th Degree)
Hi, What you say is true, and can be the result of multipath reflections. Not all FM receivers (especially newer ones) have the quality fronts ends needed to lock on the primary signal and provide a good signal to noise ratio. Standard cars radios which you would think ought to be good at this because they are moving are generally rather poor. I found a home unit that is quite excellent. It is a Sony XDR-F1HD. It is about the size of a large book and is BTW HD FM as well. There was an extensive write up on it about two years ago and it made the Stereophile A list and was runner up for best product. It excels at extracting high quality sound from very low level signal sources. With a 7 element yagi, I can get a number of Phoenix stations in Stereo (145 miles away) and dozens from Tucson (70 miles). The HD sub channels are nice. Clean, crisp and IMHO better than CD (but in all likelihood they are playing CDs ). Amazing for a sub $100 device.
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). Amazing for a sub $100 device. 
