But I took both the wires that run from the antenna to the receiver and the power cord to the antenna and raised them, and performance improved greatly

The wire worked as good or better than the TERK

The cheap wire that came with my radio works better than this product.

After being totally unsuccessful with this device I remembered my old radio days, went out to the garage, found some fine wire, stuck an end into the FM connector on my radio and, voila, the whole spectrum of stations (SF Bay area) come in.

I bought a better wire antenna and fastened it up

In an attempt to improve a weak signal I routed a cable to the second floor and using the wire antenna that came with the receiver improved the

Reception was far worse than with the passive wire antenna