How To Make the BEST AM/FM Antenna (EASY) DIY Cheap PROJECT Walkthrough (V2)
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- Опубликовано: 19 авг 2024
- Video walk through with directions for an easy to build AM FM antenna.
A simple antenna design I found on the internet, once you find the right spot you will have decent reception from stations 50 to 75+ miles away.
DO NOT CLICK ON THIS!
/ @wrenchhands
Music - Kevin MacLeod - Hyperfun
For long range AM reception during the day connect an 80-120 turn coil of 26 AWG magnet wire wrapped on a paper towel tube to a 250 ft longwire, ground the other side of the coil and place it near a small radio. You can also connect the coil to two longwires without a ground with great results. Wrap coil close wound with no overlap of turns. Lightning likes these antennas so be careful! I always stretched the longwires out through the bushes or draped them over the lower tree limbs. You can also get one up vertical in a tall tree by tying a fishing weight to a rod and reel then throw it over the top of the tree then tie wire to line and pull it up into the tree. When not in use keep wire outside your window so lightning doesn`t come inside your house. Any type of insulated wire will work.
Thanks!
what kind of long wire, can we use gi wire or any type of wire? does this method use variable capacitor like the other saying or it's not necessary
No capacitor
That's the nicest most professional FM antenna I ever saw. What, it's even better than the store one.
And the instructions where so clear. No questions about what type of stick, no questions about what length, no questions about the type or length of wire. Wow, so impressed....
Thanks! I appreciate the feedback! LoL
just put the wires on the back of the receiver and stick pin them to the wall, no need in a rod or stick of any kind.
Hi and thank you for your helpful video, I have been trying to get good radio reception for over 1 year in my shed, and thanks to you, i now have great reception, definatly having it vertical does give you the best reception, Thanks again, Cheers Paul
Thank you! I have an old Pioneer receiver too, now I can hopefully get reception without buzzing! Worth a try.
Did this work? Reception in my basement is terrible
I wish you had shown the antenna mounted to the wall without all the video advertisements blocking the view. But, thanks for the video, it was beneficial.
great video, i will try this out tomorrow for the radio at work!
Thanks for your video, it really improved the reception in my shop.
I can confirm works for fm, I used a stick I sawed off of a tree and sanded that down a little
I've planted a tree and hope to have long enough brsnch for stick in a few years
Fresh.
Thank you for that, as I only get 1 station clearly. But I m going to use your method & get back to you.
No you won’t.
@@joeshumo9457 thanks Joe.
Wow that sure picks up the stations
This is how i got better reception for my receiver AM and FM stations. Measure from the back of your receiver to the bottom of your floor and add a few inches to it. Then cut speaker wire to that length you measured and make sure you add enough speaker to spread on the floor. Split the speaker wire in 2 pieces one for positive and one for negative. Then trim then trim the ends off to fit into the back of the receiver. Then put the 2 ends into the inputs one positive and one negative and run the wire all the way down the back touching the floor. I could not get any AM reception nothing but buzzing before this but as soon as the wire touched the floor i got good reception. The closest AM station is about 60 miles away and it worked for me. Now i set this up in my big unattached garage with a concrete floor and like i said it worked for me. I tried this pole thing and it did not work all i got was buzzing and could not get one AM station and by accident i found this worked for me. Now for FM i did the same process but i found out by hanging the wire up above the back wall worked better for FM. See if it works for you.
Works great! I used an old metal curtain rod for more conductivity, not sure if that was the case.
Just plugging a wire in would do pretty much the same thing.
Ohhh noo, this is a top of the line techinical advancement known as "speaker wire" Those coordinated swirls around the special pole create a net of electricity to catch your favorite tunes from the nethersphere! Its rocket science dammit!
@@WrenchHands what makes the poles special? I tried using a box of toothpicks, all glued end to end with JB weld. But I could only get NPR... Please explain this SPECIAL pole you speak of, my toothpicks kind of suck. Maybe popsicle sticks.
@@fuck_xrp You must have wound the wire to the left?
@@fuck_xrp you're wound too tight
gr8 vid 👍 have metal building an will try this mounted outside....👴
Good work, man.
Music was played live during this video.
that's fresh.
Does the pole need to have metal? Thanks so much!
Well when I was a kid I did something similar, what I did was get an empty can and get a wire though it and connect it to tv, and put the can next to a window, although doesn’t get all the channels you’ll get like 15 free Channels xd
The antenna impedance is 300 ohms and it needs a balun for 75 ohms input.
What?...
Correct, it needs a 4:1 balun to match the radios 75 ohm impedance to the 300 ohm impedance of the antenna!
So if I rub a balloon on my head, make my hair stand up, then tie it on I'll have electrical impulsive electrons precisely tuned at 75ohm hertz for maximum power?!?!
@@WrenchHands so you tell me you do antennas without knowing about antennas? well...
Instructions unclear now Im being pulled over for drilling holes in my windshield to wrap the wire around the in glass antenna. . .
What do I do now?
you have to replace your windshield you should have known better then to do this. how dumb and stupid can this person be?
My Sony stereo receiver has similar antenna connections to the back as yours, but it has one positive port for FM antenna, and one positive and one negative ports for AM antenna. The FM antenna that was included with the stereo was simply a thin silver wire about 2-3 feet long, that you attached to the positive port provided for the FM wire. The manual said to just lay or extend the wire horizontally along the stereo. The instructions however also show how to attach an antenna to an outside aerial antenna, using both the positive port for FM, and the negative port for the AM antenna, to serve as the ground, plus there is also another little screw for a ground wire close to the antenna ports, similar to how your receiver is (you can see the ground wire screw in your video as you attach your antenna).
My question is, can I just take the positive - or gold - wire from the speaker wire I have, and use it as a single wire antenna by connecting it to the single FM port? And therefore discard the negative - or silver - wire? How much of a difference would that make for reception strength? Also, with it being speaker wire, it is encased in a clear plastic insulation: did you remove the insulation from your wire before using it? I've read where the insulation can interfere with signal reception, as that's partly what the insulation is intended for, for speaker wire. Did you strip your wire of it's insulation? It doesn't appear in the video that you did. The insulation for your wire looks very similar to mine (I have 18 gauge wire) - how does your wire work? Thanks!
To hook up your antenna you should hook up both the positive and negative. If there is only a single positive wire input for the FM, just connect the negative for the antenna into the ground on the AM input. Without a ground wire you will most likely get alot of static and interference. My antenna works pretty well but if not properly grounded it will not have very good reception. The only stripped parts of the antenna wire (speaker wire) are the ends that go into the stereo and the ends that wrap around the end of the metal pole. It's not mandatory that you have a metal pole though, it just helps with grounding the wire. With the materials that I used I am able to pick up stations up to 40-75 miles with fairly high quality. Hope that will help you. If you have any more questions just ask.
Bitshitter I’ll say no because I tried.
Your steror back antenna conenctions are identicle to mine and I have wonderde how to connect to them. In you video you connected to thh FM, does this improve AM? Is there another connection for teh AM terminals?
So would I have to make a whole other antenna for AM too? Or can I wire it to the same antenna?
Couldn't see the last 30 sec. Of the video because of the pop up videos.
How can I have it were I can hook up both AM and FM I have mine one antenna for FM and one for AM can you help me with this
If your stereo has seperate AM /FM inputs,
I think you should be able to just take the end of the antennas wires that connect to the stereo and twist on 2 positive and 2 negative wires with either ends of the wire stripped off. (Wrap the connected ends of wire with tape so they stay together)
This will give you another set of wires to connect to both AM/FM from the same antenna.
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Cool Video, But Not Much Details About What Lenghts Are The Wires ANd Everything, Idf Say, Not The Best Antenna, I Guess I Will Make A New Video On How To make The Best Antenna For FM radio With All The Measurements Correct And Stuff
Measurements dont have to be exact. I guarntee you can make a better one, but this is what i made out of stuff i had laying around the house years ago when i didnt have an actual antenna. Theres another comment on here, i think i pinned it. They gave a little description of how to build a way more powerful one, if you want more channels id try that
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maybe it works if your house near to the station how about us 50 km away from the station
I am that far from the stations. And i live in a valley. The antenna works great, have you made one yet to try it out?
Seems like id did not work?
Any random length of wire can be used for an FM/Am antenna.
it needs to be:
75cm for 1/4 wavelength
160cm for 2/4 wavelength
240cm for full wavelength.
if you use random length, the reception will be worse.
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How do you get a speaker wire
Really? You've never seen speaker wire in Walmart in the car stereo section? C'mon!
@@bradcliff7099 Or online at, oh, I don't know, maybe eBay? lol
Does it have to be a certain kind of rod or can i just use an old fishing pole or tree branch?
Needs to be oak branch with bark left on
@@deasttn hickory branch is what i use and i can hear stations around the world
@@sirmordrede what type of hickory?
It must be aluminum. Wood does not conduct electricity at all!
@@thersten i think you missed the pun, yep went right over your head
All that to listen to Areosmith.
Yea, that and a whole bunch of advertisements. If it were up to me, Aerosmith would not be what was on the radio
😂🤣
Wrench Hands same here dude, I’d be listening to some blink 182 if it were my choice but thats just me 😂
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That looks like a tent stick???
It is, i had a broken tent so i took one of the sticks and wrapped wire round it
great!
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So many whiney Bashers Here, Bashers do Better & Make yer own Wonderfull vid!!! Question: Does It make Any Difference If Antennae is Placed Vertical Or Horizontal? I Got My own Home Made version but Whens its Cold out The damn stereo cuts in & Out Randomly even when its Not On Stereo vs mono signal Strength switch..............
Not sure about the cold but I have my antenna vertical. I did have it on my ceiling at one point and that worked well but it kept falling down. Still using the same one from the video and it still works great. Might help to separate the negative and positive wires from each other with some tacks for better reception, depending what station you play
@@WrenchHands Thank You, Mines In My small Work Shop, stations are roughly 50 Miles away & Stereo vs mono fade tween each other....I Have Mine Horizontal, I will try Vertical if any difference.
From where you can get that pole? Is that insulated in the middle
I too am trying to figure out the poll...
Is an ordinary dipole antena.
Or spend four dollars for a simple dipole on Amazon…
FM antenna not am
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@Wrench Hands The naysayers seem to be challenged by our language, as well as our grammar - every single one of them - yet they insist you are wrong, despite your test, at the end of the video! I had no idea there is a class of people who have been deemed unfit to star in Ukrainian dash cam compilations, but - leapin' lizards - here they are!
making a video without decriptive audio is really useless. avaoid if you can. thx
Thanks for the input. Why though? Do you not know how to read?
It's good, but I think I can do better.
Let's have your three point plan...
@@pubuapubua I already explained it here, and some kid decided to troll me despite that I know what I'm talking about, so no thanks.
Demonstration? I've heared nothing!
Turn up the volume.
Foolish idea. Don't try it. Radio works only if u give the antenna inputs into radio antenna port. He tries to block the audio output. Its never working.
What are you talking about? Did you not see me playing live music on the radio, from the antenna I made? It obviously does work. Make one and see
hey...what the hell u doing? chinese fire drill...tooo much fussy around ''do one side/now the other''? are u nuts?
Yes it was a chinese fire drill antenna. Maybe a little though. Are you?
this is BS
How so? Works fine for me and probably a majority of the people watching this. Be sure to use similar materials and follow the steps closely.
Poorly made tutorial