How To Make the BEST AM/FM Antenna (EASY) DIY Cheap PROJECT Walkthrough (V2) 

For long range AM reception during the day connect an 80-120 turn coil of 26 AWG magnet wire wrapped on a paper towel tube to a 250 ft longwire, ground the other side of the coil and place it near a small radio. You can also connect the coil to two longwires without a ground with great results. Wrap coil close wound with no overlap of turns. Lightning likes these antennas so be careful! I always stretched the longwires out through the bushes or draped them over the lower tree limbs. You can also get one up vertical in a tall tree by tying a fishing weight to a rod and reel then throw it over the top of the tree then tie wire to line and pull it up into the tree. When not in use keep wire outside your window so lightning doesn`t come inside your house. Any type of insulated wire will work.

That's the nicest most professional FM antenna I ever saw. What, it's even better than the store one. And the instructions where so clear. No questions about what type of stick, no questions about what length, no questions about the type or length of wire. Wow, so impressed....

Thanks for your video, it really improved the reception in my shop.

Hi and thank you for your helpful video, I have been trying to get good radio reception for over 1 year in my shed, and thanks to you, i now have great reception, definatly having it vertical does give you the best reception, Thanks again, Cheers Paul

Thank you! I have an old Pioneer receiver too, now I can hopefully get reception without buzzing! Worth a try.

just put the wires on the back of the receiver and stick pin them to the wall, no need in a rod or stick of any kind.

Works great! I used an old metal curtain rod for more conductivity, not sure if that was the case.

great video, i will try this out tomorrow for the radio at work!

Does the pole need to have metal? Thanks so much!

Wow that sure picks up the stations

Good work, man.

gr8 vid 👍 have metal building an will try this mounted outside....👴

This is how i got better reception for my receiver AM and FM stations. Measure from the back of your receiver to the bottom of your floor and add a few inches to it. Then cut speaker wire to that length you measured and make sure you add enough speaker to spread on the floor. Split the speaker wire in 2 pieces one for positive and one for negative. Then trim then trim the ends off to fit into the back of the receiver. Then put the 2 ends into the inputs one positive and one negative and run the wire all the way down the back touching the floor. I could not get any AM reception nothing but buzzing before this but as soon as the wire touched the floor i got good reception. The closest AM station is about 60 miles away and it worked for me. Now i set this up in my big unattached garage with a concrete floor and like i said it worked for me. I tried this pole thing and it did not work all i got was buzzing and could not get one AM station and by accident i found this worked for me. Now for FM i did the same process but i found out by hanging the wire up above the back wall worked better for FM. See if it works for you.

So would I have to make a whole other antenna for AM too? Or can I wire it to the same antenna?

I wish you had shown the antenna mounted to the wall without all the video advertisements blocking the view. But, thanks for the video, it was beneficial.

Thank you for that, as I only get 1 station clearly. But I m going to use your method & get back to you.

My Sony stereo receiver has similar antenna connections to the back as yours, but it has one positive port for FM antenna, and one positive and one negative ports for AM antenna. The FM antenna that was included with the stereo was simply a thin silver wire about 2-3 feet long, that you attached to the positive port provided for the FM wire. The manual said to just lay or extend the wire horizontally along the stereo. The instructions however also show how to attach an antenna to an outside aerial antenna, using both the positive port for FM, and the negative port for the AM antenna, to serve as the ground, plus there is also another little screw for a ground wire close to the antenna ports, similar to how your receiver is (you can see the ground wire screw in your video as you attach your antenna). My question is, can I just take the positive - or gold - wire from the speaker wire I have, and use it as a single wire antenna by connecting it to the single FM port? And therefore discard the negative - or silver - wire? How much of a difference would that make for reception strength? Also, with it being speaker wire, it is encased in a clear plastic insulation: did you remove the insulation from your wire before using it? I've read where the insulation can interfere with signal reception, as that's partly what the insulation is intended for, for speaker wire. Did you strip your wire of it's insulation? It doesn't appear in the video that you did. The insulation for your wire looks very similar to mine (I have 18 gauge wire) - how does your wire work? Thanks!

Your steror back antenna conenctions are identicle to mine and I have wonderde how to connect to them. In you video you connected to thh FM, does this improve AM? Is there another connection for teh AM terminals?

Nice choon

I can confirm works for fm, I used a stick I sawed off of a tree and sanded that down a little

Music was played live during this video.

How can I have it were I can hook up both AM and FM I have mine one antenna for FM and one for AM can you help me with this

Galing

Well when I was a kid I did something similar, what I did was get an empty can and get a wire though it and connect it to tv, and put the can next to a window, although doesn’t get all the channels you’ll get like 15 free Channels xd

Just plugging a wire in would do pretty much the same thing.

The antenna impedance is 300 ohms and it needs a balun for 75 ohms input.

Instructions unclear now Im being pulled over for drilling holes in my windshield to wrap the wire around the in glass antenna. . . What do I do now?

Does it have to be a certain kind of rod or can i just use an old fishing pole or tree branch?

great!

From where you can get that pole? Is that insulated in the middle

That looks like a tent stick???

Any random length of wire can be used for an FM/Am antenna.

Seems like id did not work?

maybe it works if your house near to the station how about us 50 km away from the station

How do you get a speaker wire

Cool Video, But Not Much Details About What Lenghts Are The Wires ANd Everything, Idf Say, Not The Best Antenna, I Guess I Will Make A New Video On How To make The Best Antenna For FM radio With All The Measurements Correct And Stuff

Couldn't see the last 30 sec. Of the video because of the pop up videos.

All that to listen to Areosmith.

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So many whiney Bashers Here, Bashers do Better & Make yer own Wonderfull vid!!! Question: Does It make Any Difference If Antennae is Placed Vertical Or Horizontal? I Got My own Home Made version but Whens its Cold out The damn stereo cuts in & Out Randomly even when its Not On Stereo vs mono signal Strength switch..............

Is an ordinary dipole antena.

FM antenna not am

Or spend four dollars for a simple dipole on Amazon…

@Wrench Hands The naysayers seem to be challenged by our language, as well as our grammar - every single one of them - yet they insist you are wrong, despite your test, at the end of the video! I had no idea there is a class of people who have been deemed unfit to star in Ukrainian dash cam compilations, but - leapin' lizards - here they are!

It's good, but I think I can do better.

making a video without decriptive audio is really useless. avaoid if you can. thx

Demonstration? I've heared nothing!

Foolish idea. Don't try it. Radio works only if u give the antenna inputs into radio antenna port. He tries to block the audio output. Its never working.

hey...what the hell u doing? chinese fire drill...tooo much fussy around ''do one side/now the other''? are u nuts?

this is BS

Poorly made tutorial