How to improve radio reception on the DeWALT DC011

[Glenn Lever]

I am looking for ideas on how to improve the reception on the DC010 on weak radio stations.

The tracks I race at have small FM radio station they us in conjuction with PA systems to announce staging times.

I was thinking of mounting a CB antenna next to the radio and running a wire to the orginial antenna mount on the DC010.

Any suggestions?

[kanxrus]

You could get some speaker wire, hook it into your antenna connection point on the radio, then run the wires up higher on your trailer. You get a boost of signal the higher you go with it. Or you could buy a FM RF Amplifier board.

[Glenn Lever]

Isn't the CB band a very small segment of the FM band?

That is why I thought of using a CB antenna. I could get some real hieghth with that.

The wire rapped in a CB antenna is a function of the wave length (1/4, 1/2, 3/4, 1/1 wave length which is 102 inches).

Do you know the wire length rapped in the antenna on the radio?

[kanxrus]

I used to play with CB radio's before cell phones were around. I even built my own antenna out of conduit pipe and mounted it on my roof. That was a long time ago, and I've forgotten most of what I learned then.

I don't know the length of wire in the DC011 radio antenna. Try out the CB antenna, I don't see what it would hurt? Just tune the radio into a weak radio station and give it a try? If it doesn't give you a boost I would try making your own Dipole antenna out of braided speaker wire?

[Glenn Lever]

I could make a tuned dipole out of 300 ohm tv antenna wire 96 inches long which is a half wave length of FM, but how would I connect it? for a tuned antenna you need two poles?