[Raleigh]

Wow, BrendaAnnD, that's just too simple for me to figure out. Thanks, I'll try it. I figured that imitating the original as closely as possible was the thing to do. Actually, my results aren't very good--very weak signal. Just for grins I tried a dipole with much better results.

I assume I leave the insulation on the 22 ga. wire where it wraps around the power cord?

Against all advice I did try to connect a few different values of caps between power and the FM antenna terminal. I reasoned that when you connect a line filter cap from power to chassis, which I've done on many radios, the cap blocks the AC power, but in theory it couples RF hash ground before it hits the transformer or rectifier. Besides, this radio already has a 47 pf mica between one leg of the power to the ext. AM antenna terminal where anyone could touch it, and the terminal shows no 60 Hz AC at all.

Blocking 60 Hz power but coupling RF to the FM antenna terminal is just what I wanted to do, so I tried it, working very carefully step by step. There really wasn't any result at all with the caps I tried, between .05 uF and 100 pf. When I clipped my test lead by itself to the FM antenna terminal, I got a big boost in signal, but nothing changed when I clipped the other end to the cap that was connected to the power line. The 12 inch test lead gave me nearly as much signal boost as the dipole.

I haven't aligned the FM yet. Maybe the signal will improve when I finish alignment.