In article , tony sayer

wrote:
In article , Tony
scribeth thus
[snip]

I often wonder how many people have a good FM aerial and tuner
sometimes;?...

FM is capable of giving excellent results..

Indeed. Alas, it may require rather more that just "a good FM aerial and
tuner". As with digital transmissions you seem to overlook other factors
which affect the situation when comparing results. :-)

The problem is that many systems are 'capable' of giving excellent results,
but the list of conditions that have to be met in practice for this to be
the case may be longer than you take into account above.

For example, have you ever read Pat Hawker's 1980/81 WW articles on
multipath? I tracked them down and have been reading them as a result of
being told about them on the uk.tech.digital-tv group. They make very
interesting reading. Remarkable that such results seem to have been largely
ignored - maybe for the reasons he suggests in the actual articles...

Slainte,

Jim

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