On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 06:32:16 +0100, Stewart Pinkerton
wrote:

The trouble here of course is that Keith is obsessed with
measurements. What really matters is how the signal *sounds*! Is it
clean, with no multipath distortion and no noticeable hiss? Then you
have enough signal strength. :-)

Yes, up to a point.

I noticed a matterable improvement going from an adequate to a very
good aerial signal. This observation was not validated using a
double-blind level matched test, so it may be a consequence of the
effort expended optimising the aerial, or possibly down to reducing
multipath. ;-)

It would be interesting to hear from those who know about RF whether
there might be an engineering basis for this observation.

--
Chris Isbell
Southampton, UK