On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 08:57:14 +1300, Roger_Nickel
wrote:

Car radios have better low signal performance than the average domestic
radio--so use a car radio in your house and get a good external aerial.

Yup. AM car radios usually have tuned RF stages, house radios very
seldom do.

No physically small antenna will work as well as a long wire on AM.
The longer and higher it is, the better it will work. A quarter wave
at mid-broadcast-band is 75 meters, so a small antenna just doesn't
have much capture.