I bought a new Sharp compact stereo and the AM reception is worse than horrible with the supplied 8-loops-of-wire-on-a-plastic-form "AM antenna." My 20 year old Aiwa that I replaced had the same exact plastic antenna but with 6 loops of wire.
I went to Goodwill and bought a $3.99 clock radio thinking I'd take the ferrite rod antenna out, wrap some wire around it, and voila, plug it in as an external antenna. While looking closely inside, I see that the ferrite rod is actually connected to the tuning capacitor and is part of a resonate circuit so I put the the radio back together, checked it for working again, and I'll use the in-store credit to buy a shirt.
GETTING CLOSE TO THE QUESTION:
Last night I got on Ebay and found 200' of 10/46 Litz wire for $7 and ordered it.? This hair-brained idea is to wind the small Litz wire on the stock wire - loop form and get better reception (more turns is better, right?)
THE QUESTION:
Can I use 200' of small Litz wire, when it arrives, in place of the supplied antenna of the short 8 wire loop and get better AM reception? I really don't want to have an antenna that I have to tune with an external capacitor.? Of course I'm OK with spinning it around to adjust for maximum signal.
