AM/FM Antenna suggestions for early 1990's Sony Receiver?

kaiser123

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Looking for basic antennas for 1991 vintage Sony STR GX50ES. Nothing fancy. It has the sping loaded type attachment that looks like you put a wire in them. Thanks.
 
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Welcome to the AK, kaiser123. Check out the Tuner Forum to find oodles of info on this topic. Otherwise a simple twin-lead dipole may be all you need if you're in a strong signal area. These often come with new receivers. Google dipole antenna to find inexpensive choices or make one yourself.

If you're lucky an ~30" wire stuck into one of the terminals may work well enough to get you going. Good luck.
 
The Terk AF9925 is what I use for FM on my GX9ES. For AM, I'm using a Sharp loop antenna that came with my now long-gone SA-X35 receiver, velcroed to the back of a Select-A-Tenna, with the antenna wires extended enough to let me place the antenna a few feet away.
 
AM sucks. Full of garbage. As far as FM, I have always used rabbit ears. Easy to use and adjust.
 
If you're not going to use an elaborate FM antenna system, coonmanx has the best suggestion. Rabbit ears allow better adjustment for the different FM frequencies and sometimes can eliminate multipath interference. Although they're less frequently found these days, thrift/second-hand shops sometimes have them.
 
If you're not going to use an elaborate FM antenna system, coonmanx has the best suggestion. Rabbit ears allow better adjustment for the different FM frequencies and sometimes can eliminate multipath interference. Although they're less frequently found these days, thrift/second-hand shops sometimes have them.
Lots of them available over on Ebay...
 

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Your basic T antenna works pretty well.

Take some speaker wire and connect one end to the 300ohm terminals. Split 28.5" of the other end. Boom. Antenna.
 
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