New Old Amp and Tuner!

Mundu

Mundu

Mundu

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Got hold of a new amp and tuner today. They're probably over 20 years old at least I'd say but I wouldn't know. Haven't bothered plugin in the amp as my wires are so damn hard to wire up to anything because they're so big.

I managed to plug the tuner in although I have never used a tuner before I guessed the bit with antenna on it meant you wired an antenna there. All I had was a piece of wire though and all I can get is kiss which has 1 out of 5 signal strength which sounds a lot better than my phone and listening on the net anyway. I just want to know what's the best way to get a good signal on a tuner?


 
Mundu said:
I just want to know what's the best way to get a good signal on a tuner?
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A good aerial. It's like TV, you can get away with a bit of wire but you'll have a fuzzy picture, in this case you'll get a fuzzy sound. If you have NTL, there is a FM radio signal sent down the cable as well which gives excelllent quality.
 
whitecrook said:
A good aerial. It's like TV, you can get away with a bit of wire but you'll have a fuzzy picture, in this case you'll get a fuzzy sound. If you have NTL, there is a FM radio signal sent down the cable as well which gives excelllent quality.
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I have Telewest and the actually wire is fed into my modem in my room and I could get a splitter and use that. Do you get aerials made specially for it or could I just use a TV aerial?
 
You'll need to buy a particular aerial - a TV aerial probably won't work. But anyone feel free to correct me.

Oh and when you say you've never used a tuner, you mean to say you've never actually used a radio before?


<edit> I only just looked at your 2nd pic, you shouldn't have the same wire connected to both the all the terminals...... Depending on the type of aerial (the T-shaped ribbons are usualy 300 ohm and coaxial feeds, 75ohm) you obviously connect one side to ground and the other to the relevent input. The AM input is for connecting an AM aerial, often a ferrite rod type, or I find a length of coax will improve reception. AM sounds carp anyway._
 
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whitecrook said:
You'll need to buy a particular aerial - a TV aerial probably won't work. But anyone feel free to correct me.

Oh and when you say you've never used a tuner, you mean to say you've never actually used a radio before?


<edit> I only just looked at your 2nd pic, you shouldn't have the same wire connected to both the all the terminals...... Depending on the type of aerial (the T-shaped ribbons are usualy 300 ohm and coaxial feeds, 75ohm) you obviously connect one side to ground and the other to the relevent input. The AM input is for connecting an AM aerial, often a ferrite rod type, or I find a length of coax will improve reception. AM sounds carp anyway._
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Just never had a seperates tuner. What's a T-Shapped ribbon & ferrite rod type? What would you say is the easiest/best for me?
 
you also need to strip the wire to get good(or any) contact with the arial input, and onlt connect it to the FM side
 
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