John Plemons wrote: > Why not just pick up a cheap tuner on eBay and connect into the sever > via the sound card input. That is what I did, I bought a Denon tuner > for $20.00, used a cheap RCA to stereo headphone adapter to wire into > the machine. The advantage is that you are going to get a very nice > strong tuner which should do a much better job than any PC add in card... AND it keeps the RF section away form the computer and its massive amounts of gigahertz noise. take a portable AM radio, tune it to a medium strength station, and put it right next to your PC, I bet you get noise.