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Addind an external FM to my SONY walkman

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tuner b760

Hi all,

Is it possible to increase FM sensitivity of my SONY walkman adding, if possible, an external antenna or booster? If yes, how?

I'll use a PC speaker system connected to the earphone jack.

Regards,

Fernando
 

I have an AM-FM stereo Sony Walkman.
The radio is cheap and overloads easily. It has a local-distant switch that attenuates the antenna in the local position then it can't receive distant signals.
In the distant position then local stations overload it and they appear at many places on the dial so it can't receive distant signals.

An external antenna or booster will make it worse.

My home stereo tuner and car radio are extremely sensitive and are not overloaded by local stations.
 

Wich home stereo tuner you have- i mean wich trade mark?
You say extremely sensitive how much?
Maby is mine much sensitive? :roll:

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Ok this is high-end ReVox FM tuner FB760
 

Hi zlatkoMM,

My home FM stereo receiver is a SONY FH-L400, is very sensitive in FM, AM and SW, but this antenna is to my SONY WM-FX425 portable cassette player with FM/AM radio walkman that I'll use to listen FM radio when operating my HAM station in 10m or 2m using a set of creative loudspeakers.

Regards,

Fernando
 

A review https://www.fmtunerinfo.com/ricochets.html#B760
of the Revox B760 tuner says it is a vintage design from 1979 and has fairly poor performance for its expensive cost:
1) Extremely bad RF intermodulation.
2) Poor capture ratio.
3) Poor quieting (noisy).
4) More expensive than 4 others that performed better.

Revox made tape recorders, not FM tuners.
I wonder who made FM tuners for them.

I have a Yamaha receiver (about 1986) that works very well.
 

I have this piece of electronic at home and sounds super great and has
super great sensitivity.You dont know nothing....
Yamaha what is this a car or motorcicle.
Yamaha only made good sinthesizers.

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I have this piece of electronic at home and sounds super great and has
super great sensitivity.You dont know nothing....
Yamaha what is this a car or motorcicle.
Yamaha only made good sinthesizers.

@fjpompeo:
You must add small jack to your wallkman,for example you can use some
antenna conector from some old mibile phone.
After you plug this to external dipol antena and that is this.
 

Zlat,
Your very old FM tuner is garbage. I and everybody else KNOW all about it.

An antenna for a cell phone (mobile phone?) works at almost 1GHz, not at 100MHz).

When you add an antenna to a cheap radio then local stations overload it. It works only if you are far away from any station.
 

And your is also garbage (about 1986) .
Ha Ha ha:D

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And who talk about antenna? i only speak about antenna female conector.
You miss something .....
 

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