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Summary: Better than expected!
Review: I just recently received this antenna, and was amazed at its ability to help null out strong stations and bring in the weaker ones! I was a bit worried based on a previous review, but am relieved to report that this antenna is GREAT! The trick to using this antenna is to NOT plug the antenna directly into your radio, but to use it conductively in conjunction with your radio's internal antenna. Try moving it around in different configurations around the radio to get a feel for the best location. Perhaps one of the other reviewers received a defective antenna - although I can see where one would be disappointed if they just plugged the antenna in and were expecting amazing results (which may be the case for that person). For the money - this antenna is an amazing tool for the armchair AM DX'er! I WHOLEHEARTEDLY recommend this antenna!!!
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Summary: A coathanger would work better
Review: I purchased this antenna from J&R through Amazon.com. I have tried using it with my Grundig S350 radio, with my McIntosh MAC-4100, and with a generic radio. No better reception was obtained on any AM station and where fuzz was before, fuzz still existed. I have exchanged the antenna once to no avail. While the other reviewers sing praises about this item, I have been most disappointed in it. Based on my experience, I would not recommend.
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Summary: A coathanger would work better
Review: I purchased this antenna from J&R through Amazon.com. I have tried using it with my Grundig S350 radio, with my McIntosh MAC-4100, and with a generic radio. No better reception was obtained on any AM station and where fuzz was before, fuzz still existed. I have exchanged the antenna once to no avail. While the other reviewers sing praises about this item, I have been most disappointed in it. Based on my experience, I would not recommend.
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Summary: All Doubts Removed
Review: I purchased this product from a local electronics chain store thinking I'd have to return it. However, help was needed! I recently purchased a "bookshelf" stereo system which came with the typical "foldable" antenna, and the AM sounded AWFUL! Once I hooked up the Terk Advantage, I noticed an immediate and dramatic improvement in the strength and static level for all of the AM stations I listen to. However, just to make sure, I also ordered a "Select-a-tenna", which had been mentioned by other reviewers of the Terk. In my situation, the TERK worked much better! My only regrets on this product...I could have saved a few bucks orderering from Amazon. The other reviewers were correct on the abilities of this product. Reviews go just so far. After all, there is only one real way to know if something like this works...try it out!
Rating: 
Summary: Works as advertised
Review: I recently bought the Terk AM Advantage antenna to improve the AM reception on my Tivoli Model Two radio. Some of the stations I want to listen to are pretty tough to pick up in my house due to their location and the chicken wire in the stucco, so I needed some help.
The radio doesn't have an input for an external antenna, so I went with a loop since it can be inductively coupled just by putting it nearby. It does have a direct output if your radio can use it, and that's of course going to be better in general than induction. I tried it on my stereo tuner in this mode and it seemed to work fine - but I really wasn't having a problem with the regular antenna, so I can't really tell how much better it would be.
It works pretty well. It's a passive loop with a dial (no doubt connected to a variable capacitor) for tuning to the station you need. It's fairly sensitive and touchy to tune, but it's workable. You tune the radio to the station you want, then tune the antenna. It has a scale to get you in the ballpark on the frequency, and it doesn't seem to be all that accurate. You need to tune it by ear anyway, so it's not much of a problem.
I got the best results with very weak stations by first setting the antenna to the frequency (say, 560 KHz.) with the dial, tuning the station on the radio off-peak to the point that you can just barely hear it, then fine-tuning the antenna by ear, then fine-tuning the radio.
The antenna needs to be near the radio, so it's likely to be visible. It looks pretty nice and is not something that would be an eyesore. It's fairly small (about 10 inches tall) which means it will fit most places. Of course, it would work better if it was twice as big, but it's a good compromise.
It is kind of expensive for 3 feet of wire, a cap, and a plastic case, but it pretty well does what is claimed.
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Summary: Best AM Antenna I've ever used!
Review: I'm a stickler for performance, and have high expectations for electronic equipment... especially when I hear fellow users raving about a certain product. After getting the Terk AM Advantage to use primarily with my CC Radio, I have to say I'm not dissappointed. Giving it 5 stars would be saying that it goes beyond my expectations. The 4 star rating means that it comes pretty damn close! Anyway, it does a fine job. The great thing, is that it can be used with ANY radio with or without external antenna terminals. I find it seems to work better without the hookup. Tuning the stations can be a bit tricky at times. The dial is slightly off and registers a station a few kHz higher than it is, and must be turned various ways near the radio to accurately do its job. It even seems to do quite well at being able to resist stronger signals that are adjecent to weaker ones. For the AM DX'er, or lover of good `ol AM radio in general, it's an answer to a prayer!
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Summary: If it's out there, you'll hear it.
Review: The sun rises. The ionosphere starts to warm, losing its ability to bounce distant AM radio stations back to Earth. Your favorite out-of-state station, that little independent that plays REAL rock and roll oldies from the 1960s is about to fade to a bare whisper above the powerhouse sidebands of the adjacent metropolitan stations. You sigh and repeat the daily ritual: retuning to that local so-called "classic rock" station whose entire playlist repeats every 48 hours. Yeah, it's in crystal-clear FM stereo but it's just not the same. You pleaded with your wife to let you buy a classic Select-A-Tenna, and she said with amazing prescience: "THAT? It looks like something you'd find on an oil rig in the North Atlantic! Not in OUR family room!" And she's right. Oil rig workers in the North Atlantic really DO use the Select-A-Tenna to pull in AM radio from the eastern seaboard of the United States. You have to agree with her, though. Amazing as it is, the Select-A-Tenna is, well, ugly with a capital "UG!" The TERK Advantage Indoor AM antenna might be just what you and she are looking for. It more closely resembles modern art than a cheesecake pan turned on end. And unlike the basic original Select-A-Tenna, the Terk Advantage can be used with or without its included connection wire. On a receiver with AM antenna terminals, you hook it up the same way as that cheesy plastic and wire excuse for an antenna that came with the receiver. Position the Advantage so that it faces the direction of the transmitter, then tune the station in on the receiver. Adjust the Advantage's tuning knob to the same frequency and, good Gawd-Awmighty, where did THAT come from? That faint little mouse of a station will now roar like a lion! For clock radios, tabletop radios and boomboxes without antenna terminals, simply place the Advantage near or on the radio. Interference fades. Fading disappears. You hear the station, not all the other electromagnetic pollution between here and the transmitter. The TERK AM indoor antenna looks as good as it performs. That's a definite Advantage.
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Summary: Great AM Reception Day and Night!
Review: This antenna is a best AM antenna for the baseball, news, George
Noory(Coast to Coast AM) listener. Its also used by many AM radio DXers, beginner and experienced, and it also uses no power
The TERK AM antenna is a best designed antenna, and TERK did it right this time, lets see if they can conquer the same with FM someday. I have had mine since 1999 , and does wonders for my AM on my Sony stereo system. I also use with it with the ATS-909 shortwave receiver for directional station listening, and get this if you are good at rotating antennas, you can carefully null out the local station, and bring
in the other stations you can't receive before. Its similar to the other type called the select-A-tenna. It also covers 510 kHz to 1720 kHz, for dail tuners it takes patience to null and
peak, and to digital tuners its easy to peak up the currently received station. I hope you like this one, its better than
the AM stereo antenna that was supplied with the stereo, and it
increases selectivity on your current tuner and other radios.
Rating:
Summary: Great AM Reception Day and Night!
Review: This antenna is a best AM antenna for the baseball, news, George
Noory(Coast to Coast AM) listener. Its also used by many AM radio DXers, beginner and experienced, and it also uses no power
The TERK AM antenna is a best designed antenna, and TERK did it right this time, lets see if they can conquer the same with FM someday. I have had mine since 1999 , and does wonders for my AM on my Sony stereo system. I also use with it with the ATS-909 shortwave receiver for directional station listening, and get this if you are good at rotating antennas, you can carefully null out the local station, and bring
in the other stations you can't receive before. Its similar to the other type called the select-A-tenna. It also covers 510 kHz to 1720 kHz, for dail tuners it takes patience to null and
peak, and to digital tuners its easy to peak up the currently received station. I hope you like this one, its better than
the AM stereo antenna that was supplied with the stereo, and it
increases selectivity on your current tuner and other radios.
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