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Post by novisnick on Aug 24, 2020 16:26:09 GMT -5
Lightning is indeed unpredictable! My cable was struck oN the pole, it’s 150’ away and travels underground to the 8’ grounding-rod just outside my living room to a box that feeds the house. The strike killed the FM receiver part of a Yamaha xx-x 1000. The rest of it works fine. Upstairs the cable wasn’t working and when I unscrewed the coaxial cable from the box I discovered the copper was gone, vaporized! The rest of the house cable was fine, path of least resistance! 🤯 Yep, lightening is a strange and powerful force. Speaking of grounding-rods, your generator should have one as well, it helps to protect electronics and compressors is what my electrician has told me. Just to add to that....grounding is really meant for static electricity and lightning in the area, not meant to stop a direct lightning strike. If it's close enough, lightning will not be stopped. So, again it's wise (and I rarely do it), to unplug your gear from the wall during a lightning storm. Yep, absolutely no way to stop lightning! Even if you get hit personally it’ll decide where to go once you’re cooked!. When forewarned always, unplug anything you don’t want fried! Where I live I go through this exercise often. If I don’t plan on using one of our system it for a week it gets unplugged. I was further told that the grounding rod would give a better flow of electricity, less fluctuation. |
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Post by AudioHTIT on Sept 15, 2020 23:09:59 GMT -5
So last weekend I added an FM Antenna above my UHF OTA TV Antenna. I got all 20 FM presets of my RMC-1 filled with strong stations, some as far away as the San Francisco Bay Area, and at least half I might listen to! A few are pretty good, including the local Classical station. I listened for an hour or two today and it sounded good, nice to have another easy music source. I bought the Omni-directional antenna I linked above, so no pointing and easy peasy to mount, plenty of signal strength. Yet another resident on the communications array (its the circular job at the top of the mast).  |
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Post by JKCashin on Sept 16, 2020 17:00:18 GMT -5
So last weekend I added an FM Antenna above my UHF OTA TV Antenna. I got all 20 FM presets of my RMC-1 filled with strong stations, some as far away as the San Francisco Bay Area, and at least half I might listen to! A few are pretty good, including the local Classical station. I listened for an hour or two today and it sounded good, nice to have another easy music source. I bought the Omni-directional antenna I linked above, so no pointing and easy peasy to mount, plenty of signal strength. Yet another resident on the communications array (its the circular job at the top of the mast). Cool! I have had that antenna in my Amazon wish-list for about a week... wondering if it was any good. Thanks! |
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Post by AudioHTIT on Sept 16, 2020 19:20:48 GMT -5
So last weekend I added an FM Antenna above my UHF OTA TV Antenna. I got all 20 FM presets of my RMC-1 filled with strong stations, some as far away as the San Francisco Bay Area, and at least half I might listen to! A few are pretty good, including the local Classical station. I listened for an hour or two today and it sounded good, nice to have another easy music source. I bought the Omni-directional antenna I linked above, so no pointing and easy peasy to mount, plenty of signal strength. Yet another resident on the communications array (its the circular job at the top of the mast). Cool! I have had that antenna in my Amazon wish-list for about a week... wondering if it was any good. Thanks! As I said, works well for me, doubt it would be good in a low signal strength situation, but I have a lot of stations within 50 miles and it’s pulling them in (the SF Bay station was not typical). It’s a good Omni! Edit: To the topic of this thread, though it’s been a while since I listened to FM at home, I’d say this isn’t a great tuner (and I don’t know if it’s the same as the XMC-1). |
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Post by butchgo on Sept 16, 2020 19:26:48 GMT -5
I haven't listen to OTA radio in about 8 years.
Sirius all the way.
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Post by Cogito on Sept 16, 2020 20:02:46 GMT -5
I haven't listen to OTA radio in about 8 years. Sirius all the way. I find Sirius/XM to be unlistenable for even casual listening. The compression artifacts are far too prominent. However, it's fine my motorcycle listening.  |
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Post by JKCashin on Sept 16, 2020 21:31:20 GMT -5
Cool! I have had that antenna in my Amazon wish-list for about a week... wondering if it was any good. Thanks! As I said, works well for me, doubt it would be good in a low signal strength situation, but I have a lot of stations within 50 miles and it’s pulling them in (the SF Bay station was not typical). It’s a good Omni! Edit: To the topic of this thread, though it’s been a while since I listened to FM at home, I’d say this isn’t a great tuner (and I don’t know if it’s the same as the XMC-1). Odd... I found it to be a great tuner! Even with a modest antenna inside I pull in about 40 stations! |
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Post by AudioHTIT on Sept 17, 2020 0:02:43 GMT -5
As I said, works well for me, doubt it would be good in a low signal strength situation, but I have a lot of stations within 50 miles and it’s pulling them in (the SF Bay station was not typical). It’s a good Omni! Edit: To the topic of this thread, though it’s been a while since I listened to FM at home, I’d say this isn’t a great tuner (and I don’t know if it’s the same as the XMC-1). Odd... I found it to be a great tuner! Even with a modest antenna inside I pull in about 40 stations! Oh, yeah, I get plenty of strong stations. I just mean compared to the sound quality of the great tuners of the past, like the Mac MR-78, but it’s hard to compare because the source material’s so different, etc. too many variables. I like it, The OP wondered if they could do better with a separate tuner and I’d say it’s possible, though not without a decent antenna. |
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Post by cawgijoe on Sept 17, 2020 6:24:08 GMT -5
Odd... I found it to be a great tuner! Even with a modest antenna inside I pull in about 40 stations! Oh, yeah, I get plenty of strong stations. I just mean compared to the sound quality of the great tuners of the past, like the Mac MR-78, but it’s hard to compare because the source material’s so different, etc. too many variables. I like it, The OP wondered if they could do better with a separate tuner and I’d say it’s possible, though not without a decent antenna. I don't use the tuner often, but I am hooked up to a Winegard rooftop mounted TV antenna. The tuner works just as well as the XMC-1 I previously owned. Stations are clear and strong. As to sound quality, it sounds great to me and is dependent on the compression factor of what is being broadcast. Don't forget that the stations control that. You would be surprised at the lack of dynamic range on most of these stations, especially top 40 and Rock. I really wish they had incorporated and HD Radio tuner as things get much more interesting. It's understandable though because most of us are streaming these days. |
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