Q: How can I pick up your signal better?
A: It really depends on how far away you are from the transmitter. Here's what one listener did:

I live in Greenville SC and have enjoyed your station for years and it's gotten this fossil hip to a lot of stuff he wouldn't have otherwise herd. However, I have had trouble with reception at home and recently discovered an easy fix you might like to pass on to your distant listeners. I took a rabbit ears type of antenna from the pile I have, added a 300-75 transformer from the pile I have, 2' of coax from the roll I have down to my stereo and mounted the antenna in a vertical position. Bamm! Yer coming great now. Just thought you'd like to know.

An Asheville listener writes: 

I found the FM6 made by Antennacraft. It is a dedicated FM antenna about 6' long. I put it in my attic and pointed it at Mt. Mitchell, which is only about 15 miles NE of here, but with 3 mountain ranges in the way (I live in NE Asheville in Beaverdam Valley). I feed the signal down to the basement and into a splitter that feeds 3 FM receivers. The signal is very good, so now I have my music back at the house! (Dan Hicks had happy feet, I have happy ears.)  The antenna is available from a company in Elkin, NC for a little over $30 including tax and shipping.  So now the next task is to find a hi-gain antenna for my Totota pickup truck. That way I'll have good tunes at home or around town.

Another Asheville listener says:

Some days, I found that I was picking up a little noise (FM hiss) even with the attic antenna, so I got an Antennacraft antenna amplifier (model 10G201) and it's solved that problem. That model is for near-fringe areas; they have a deep fringe model as well. Now I get flawless reception every day.  By the way, Radio Shack has an FM antenna that looks very much like the Antennacraft  model I have.
 
And then there are times Mt. Mitchell is down, so I pick you up on the computer. But then I needed a way to get the tunes to the radios around the house so I got a small FM transmitter (made by C. Crane) and hooked it up to the PC. You pick an unused (quiet) frequency and transmit on that. Good fidelity for you (and your neighbors) and it's FCC legal.
 
Finally, I decided to do some Tivo-like time-shifting, so I looked around and found a software package called iRadio which lets me automatically record my favorite programs (such as Roland's Jazz & Beyond) and then listen to them at my convenience. With this and the FM transmitter, I can listen to my choice of WNCW programs anytime anywhere (when I'm at home anyway).

One listener in Gastonia says he has done exhaustive research on indoor FM antennas in his attempts to get better reception of the station. In his opinion a GODAR antenna is the best--great quality and reasonable price. Here's the website: http://users.mcleodusa.net/m/mgodar/index.html.

And another Gastonia listener says:

I just bought a Proton 300 table top radio off EBAY. The tuner is AWESOME! It pulls in WNCW without an antenna in Gastonia...with a cheapo (Radio) Shack wire antenna it sounds GREAT!! The Proton is considered by most as being THE BEST table top radio ever made. Sadly, Proton went out of business. So If you want to reccommend a radio that pulls in WNCW along the fringe areas, the Proton 300 found used on EBAY is a Champ.

There are usually many possible solutions to reception problems, and we'll post more soon. In the meantime, if you have a reception solution, let us know at info@wncw.org.