am/fm antenna

[Blacktank]

antenna for the house car radio

thinking a side mount running down the side off the roof,being fiberglass and plywood drilling holes is easy but being fiberglass and plywood do i need an external antenna?

what about those amplified window antennas?

ideas

[sternwake]

Depends on how good you want your reception to be. Plywood and fiberglass do not attenuate signals nearly as much as metal.

But height is might, with antennas.

You going to get a TV at some point too? If you run an FM Antenna to the roof, Consider some RG-6 coax in physical parallel, for a possible future TV antenna.

I do not do much radio but I do do TV. When I did need great radio reception, it was AM radio in Baja. The FN search function would find nothing but AM had dozens of stations available.

TV reception can be taken to extremes. i went there and backed way off when i decided for a minimal travell antenna worked pretty darn well too.

[rvpopeye]

A small yagi fills both requirements.
(I have an RCA I got at WWorld ~$50)

FM is in the old VHF tv band and AM ,,just about any piece of wire will do.(31" for FM if you go cheapo...)

The flat panels are OK , just not as good.
(look at the "suggested range " for comparison only .
Many variables affecting range.....)

[tx2sturgis]

Just a little note about possibly mounting the antenna inside. 

Yes....fiberglass and wood will pass most broadcast signals with very little attenuation....but...

All of your electronic gizmos (called 'unintentional radiators' by the FCC) such as laptops, wifi hotspots, solar controllers, bluetooth devices, microwave ovens, LED driver boards, inverters, power supplies, USB phone chargers, TV amplifiers, and etc, generate spurious RF noise and guess where the FCC says it's OK to make that noise?

Right in the broadcast bands. I kid you not.

In fact a lot of devices have Part 15 labels, you've seen them...."This device must not generate harmful interference, and must accept harmful interference" (the actual wording is much more detailed).

The manual will often have a notice about re-orienting the antenna or the device. Of course the signal is weak, but these noise fields often have a range of 10 feet or more.

The gist of this is that some of this interference will (according to Murphy) be right on the AM or FM station that you are trying to receive from 50 miles away.

My vote? 

Put an antenna on the roof or on the front hood and route the cable as far from other electronics as is practical.

[Blacktank]

i bought a basic side mount extending to 4 feet,going to give it a go up in the cupboard with the radio and see what happens

the only electronics on that side will be the tv with hopes i can hook it to the radio,modern cd/am fm and whatever
apparently if i had an android they work together somehow