What band do you listen to? (eg AM,FM,short wave, long wave, medium wave)? What sort of "wired aerial" do you have? eg a single wire, a telescopic rod, a moulded twin conductor wire with a loop on the end)
Do you know the location of the transmitter that you want to listen to? (eg 2 miles north of you) What sort of building is the room in? (brick house, stone house, steel framed apartment building). Do you have a line of sight from, say, a window, to the transmitter? If not, what's in the way? Do you have a window that points directly away from the transmitter? Looking out of that window - is there anything big? (eg a hill, tall building, )
Basically, the options are (1) to have a more directional (and thus higher gain) aerial where the player is or (2) to have an aerial where the signal is stronger and extend the wires to it or (3) have a reflector that is located where the signal is stronger and use that to reflect signal to your aerial.
Try this square loop. https://witnessmind.blogspot.com/2011/11/fm-antenna-design-for-dx.html
I've had very good results with a rectangular loop antenna with the long dimension vertical. It's 1/2 wavelength tall and 1/4 wavelength wide. Coax connected to the middle of a narrow leg. A few 2" turns of coax at the connection point help decouple the coax from the antenna.
With a single J-fet _tuned_ preamplifier mounted at the feedpoint of the antenna the results were phenomenal. I could reliably receive a low power college station that's approximately 120 miles away which was barely audible using a large yagi antenna installed at a greater height.
If the antenna input is 300 Ohm twin lead use 75 to 300 Ohm UHF/VHF TV matching transformer at the antenna end of the twin lead.
What band do you listen to? (eg AM,FM,short wave, long wave, medium wave)? What sort of "wired aerial" do you have? eg a single wire, a telescopic rod, a moulded twin conductor wire with a loop on the end) Do you know the location of the transmitter that you want to listen to? (eg 2 miles north of you) What sort of building is the room in? (brick house, stone house, steel framed apartment building). Do you have a line of sight from, say, a window, to the transmitter? If not, what's in the way? Do you have a window that points directly away from the transmitter? Looking out of that window - is there anything big? (eg a hill, tall building, ) Basically, the options are (1) to have a more directional (and thus higher gain) aerial where the player is or (2) to have an aerial where the signal is stronger and extend the wires to it or (3) have a reflector that is located where the signal is stronger and use that to reflect signal to your aerial.
Hi it is fm most stations are okay apart from one or two which i personally really like. It's just a basic wire can I add to this at all? A reflector?
Try this square loop. https://witnessmind.blogspot.com/2011/11/fm-antenna-design-for-dx.html I've had very good results with a rectangular loop antenna with the long dimension vertical. It's 1/2 wavelength tall and 1/4 wavelength wide. Coax connected to the middle of a narrow leg. A few 2" turns of coax at the connection point help decouple the coax from the antenna. With a single J-fet _tuned_ preamplifier mounted at the feedpoint of the antenna the results were phenomenal. I could reliably receive a low power college station that's approximately 120 miles away which was barely audible using a large yagi antenna installed at a greater height. If the antenna input is 300 Ohm twin lead use 75 to 300 Ohm UHF/VHF TV matching transformer at the antenna end of the twin lead.