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Don Pearce wrote:
Poorly is how they perform. Much better to have a telescopic antenna
that rises to about a quarter wave (75 cm). If you live in a poor
signal area with interfering transmitters coming in, a directional
antenna is the only answer, and you can't have that on a car.

Not my experience. I replaced a wing mounted telescopic with a 'bee sting'
active type mounted on the rear of the roof - so longer feeders too. On
the same radio, it works slightly better than the telescopic. My guess
because the roof one has a decent ground plane.

How about DAB? That works 100% better than FM in a car.

That is my experience - but with a decent aerial too. Those windscreen
mount ones aftermarket ones being rubbish.

DAB round London is simply miles better reception wise than FM.

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Dave Plowman London SW
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