TerkIndoor AM Antenna Advantage

I tried this Terk Advantage antenna with two radios. 1. The first one was a communications receiver. It has no antenna, but it has two antenna connectors. One of them is for a 500 Ohms antenna. Since (I beleive) the Terk Advantage is a 300 Ohms antenna, I connected it to the 500 Ohms antenna connector of the receiver. That connector (on the receiver) accepts two bare wires, and the Terk Advantage came with a cord which has two bare wires (to connect the antenna to the receiver), so it was simple. The other antenna connector on the communications receiver in question is for a 50 Ohms antenna, and to that connector, the C. Crane Twin-Coil Ferrite Antenna (which is a 50 Oms antenna) was connected. The Twin-Coil is an amplified antenna, and it was working from the wall AC electicity. (It can work from a 9 volts battery also.) This communications receiver has a preamplifier. I then compared these two antennas, and in my opinioin, the Terk Advantage was generally not worse (for that receiver) than the C. Crane Twin Coil antenna. I think the gain of this Terk is smaller than the gain of the Twin Coil antenna, but using the preamplifier, that could be easily cured. And the Terk sometimes was able to deliver a more clear sound, I think. (Maybe if the Twin-Coil was working from the 9 volts battery, that, with the clarity of sound, would be not the case, this I could not check because my Twin-Coil somehow refuses to work from the battery.)2. The second receiver I tried the Terk Advantage antenna with, was a table-top AM/FM radio. That radio has no AM antenna inside, but it has the 3.5 mm jack for an AM antenna. I bought a cord with 3.5 mm plugs at both ends, and connected the Terk Advantage to that receiver. The results were very good. Now I have a good AM antenna for that radio! I am glad that I bought the Terk Advantage.

This is a very convenient, effective and downright FUN device for late night AM radio reception. Months ago a neighbor introduced it to me, after which I ordered one for myself.

This Audiovox product (made in China like everything else these days) is neat and sleek looking. It's obvious some other reviewers failed to read the owner's manual for this antenna before trying to use it. This antenna CANNOT pull in a signal that is not there. In other words, if the radio station is not beaming a signal to you, this antenna can't tune in the station's signal. It passively receives signals that arrive at it; it doesn't fly through the airwaves grabbing distant signals from outter space. According to the literature, this antenna is should help bring in weak stations that are no more than 50 miles away (and broadcasting in your direction).Keep in mind, this antenna will make a weak AM radio signal stronger. If you hear a weak station with static, when using this antenna you will probably hear a strong station with static. It strengthens the radio signal that it tunes in...it does NOT clean up that signal for you. A good, large antenna brings weak signals in stronger. Think of it as passively collecting more of the radio waves that "fly" to it (imagine fly paper)...Proper TUNING is what clears up static (assuming your radio is of good enough quality to properly tune and separate frequencies).In the box, you'll find basically 3 things. The tunable loop antenna, the instructions booklet, and the external connetcion wire.The wire has a mini (1/8") male, mono jack on one end and 2 bare wires on the other. If you have a radio like mine that has a 1/8" female jack (as does this antenna) then this wire won't easily work for you. You'll have to splice a male 1/8" jack to the bare wires before you can plug it into both the radio and the antenna. I found this disappointing given my radio set up, but it may be useful to more peope the way it is.The instruction booklet is in English and is simple and straight forward. A monkey in a space suit can understand the Owner's Manual (if it can read English, of course).This antenna is better looking than the Select-a-tenna and is a tad bit smaller too.Overall, I recommend this antenna as a low cost way to get better AM radio reception.

I ordered this antenna to help with a distant AM station, hoping it would work at making it listenable during the day. The antenna didn't help with this station, but on the C. Crne website, it warns that this could be the case: I was buying this antenna, hoping.I give this antenna 5 starts and plan to keep it, because it functions just the way C. Crane said it would: it took aan already weak signal I was getting on my radio and made it stronger. On my CCRadio 3, there is an AM station I get that is faint, fluctuating between 2 and 3 bars in signal strength. Using this antenna, the radio station goes up to a solid 4 bars in strength.C. Crane said this is what one can expect from using this antenna. Therefore, I give it 5 stars and will keep it.

I've used a few AM Loops like this one. I'd say it performs fairly good but it's average. Really no different than the Tecsun or Kaito. I do think that it has a little better advantage to the other two in the way it can fine tune! If a couple of different wire sets more had been included I'd probably have given it another star. Like how about a two way 3.5mm? Etc.

I tested the antenna using a C. Crane CCRadio - EP PRO inductively and wired, a CC Skywave 2 inductively and two other radios inductively.I found no improvement in the AM signal using the Terk Indoor AM Antenna Advantage.I wish that C. Crane still sold the Justice AM Twin Coil Ferrite Antenna Signal Booster. It seemed to be a much better product.