Beam Box FM Antenna
Dear [Mentat],
Yep, I remember that Beam Box you owned throughout the late 1970s and well into the 1980s, although I played with it very little. However, I know just from experimenting with antennas in ham radio, that when you tune an aerial to the desired frequency, and the antenna has a very high Q, you get amazingly good performance.
Unfortunately, antennas like this for the FM band are hard to come by (with the exception of the Beam Box). Because of how wide the FM band is (20 Mhz.), you really do need a tunable antenna to optimize reception for individual stations throughout the band. A simple broadband antenna (like the whips on “rabbit ears” or the old dangling wire behind the receiver) just don’t cut it, although they admittedly work reasonably well when you have no better alternatives. Yep, the Beam Box was great. I wonder if anyone makes something like that spectacular antenna today?