VINTAGE BIC BEAM BOX FM 10- ELECTRONICALLY DIRECTIONAL INDOOR ANTENNA, TESTED

Description

I am offering for sale my BIC FM-10 Beam Box, an indoor antenna which I bought years ago when living in the city. I mention living in the city because, at least when I was living in an area densely populated with apartment buildings, I got horrible FM reception. With a dipole antenna, there was all kinds of multipath distortion, which happens when multiple signals hit the tuner at the same time. The signal breaks up and/ or you get hissing and other nasty sounds along with the music you WANT to hear. I was having all of these issues and when I heard about the Beam Box, I had to buy one. With the Beam Box, I was able to adjust it to a point where I could get a clean signal.
Fast forward a few years. I live now 40 miles outside of the city. Now I had the opposite problem, a reception problem
of just being able to get a decent signal. This issue
was solved by an outdoor antenna,   The bottom line is the Beam Box is essential for people who live in a city and have multipath signal problems. However, for those who live more than 30 miles from the stations they want to listen to, I recommend an outside antenna, such as the Magnum Dynalab.
I tested the Beam Box a few days ago and it works great. at least as well as it can being 40 miles from the FM stations I used to check it. The switches all work. The caps on the two right control knobs on the front are missing. The 75 ohm output is a little loose. I tested the Beam Box using that output. There are scuffs but no deep scratches on the top of the unit. Some of those could be buffed out.
Shipping is free to continental US buyers.