Why when we touch radio antenna audio quality is better?

[peeran]

radio antenna

why when we touch the antenna of radio audio quality becomes better?

 

[wusen]

Re: radio antenna

because the body acts like capacitive loading and lengthens the antenna effectively.

 

[biff44]

Re: radio antenna

It is called "radio love". If your radio likes you a lot, it plays louder when you are near!

 

[magneto_cool]

Re: radio antenna

You can also think of it as in the case where your body also act as the antenna which receives more signals from free space

Regards

 

[trigger74]

radio antenna

You body is a good conductor........so when yoou touch the antenna, the radio will "love" you and give you maximum output ......

 

[jakjoud]

radio antenna

Sorry but dont you think that if the radio is recieving more signals that has nothing to do with the quality of this signals, what I think is that waves has differents polarisation so when you touch the antenna your body acting like a two dimension antenna so the radio will recieve the signal with nomatter what polarisation... that's just what I think I hope it's true!!
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