On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 20:49:11 +0000, Prai Jei
wrote:

Is there anybody here, that's *got* one of these things, and finds that it
*works* ?

Almost certainly. We live in a densely populated country with good
radio and TV coverage. I imagine there are more people suffering
problems with urban ghosting than there are with remote weak signals.
Input stages also have AGC and very good sensitivity these days. In
such cases, a simple attenuator is more use than a bigger antenna. A
gadget like this (which I assume to have some level of band-pass
filtering) probably works very well for those people suffering from
out-of-band interference, induced pickup in long antenna leads, and
much ghosting.

And of course, if your existing antenna is already working well,
you're unlikely to shell out on any new gadget. So even if this thing
is useless for nearly everyone, for probably two thirds of those
people who have a problem, it's quite possibly appropriate - contrary
as its technical capabilities might suggest.

Years ago I worked briefly for the radio interference investigation
branch of BT. In one small area (underneath a local radio transmitter)
a standard technique was _unplugging_ the aerial altogether. There was
just too much of it - no sensible radio could cope. Signal strength
was such that I really did hear Radio Merseyside on Granny's fillings.