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Originally Posted by sjgadsby View Post
That does sound nifty, but I suspect it would be difficult to devise an internal antenna that's at all useful. I seem to recall that FM antennas should ideally be approximately 60 inches long to cover half a wavelength, with shorter, quarter wavelength lengths possible, but only with reduced reception.
Does it have to be a straight line antenna? I've seen tons of little FM radios out there that are built into head phones, MP3 players, etc. So, I wonder if you can make the antenna wind around in a circle or square or something.

But, I'm definitely not an antenna guy.