Antenna signal is bad
 

Is there anything to boost the signal for my radio reception? The antenna works but I get lousy reception! I lose lots of channels will driving around.

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do you have a aftermarket radio or factory?

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Is this something that happened suddenly or a gradual worsening condition?

Keith:cool:

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I have a Panasonic stereo. I get about 4 clear channels. I thought it was normal all these years being that I live in the Poconos. It wasn't until I started using other vehicles to go to work, that I was able to get better reception. The antenna is factory and it does go up but the signal drops alot and with much static on the dead channels. I know the previous owner did swap out the antenna once before. Maybe a bad connection?

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It's possible the aftermarket stereo is hooked up to the defroster antenna and not to the mast antenna.

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That, or you may need to clean the motorized antenna's mast. See this post.

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What are the specifications of your receiver? The oem panasonic is horrendously bad. I just shopped around for reasonably priced stereos and Pioneer's supertuner 3D is the best. Alpine and some Kenwood/JVC recievers are almost as good. But you have to be careful and check the specs because, model to model, the reception can vary wildly.

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Dave,

How do you get that clip closest to the dash, on the piece on the side of the hump, back in? It is a bear!

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Your words came into my mind as I pulled out the radio. I noticed another antenna wire (unpluged). The original SVX radio has two antenna wires, while my after market radio only uses 1 antenna wire.

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I'm going to reinstall the original SVX radio with the 2 antenna wires. Maybe this will help my bad reception.

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also, here is what solved my problem Check the 18 inch extenstion cable if you have a aftermarket radio my was bad, one of the end was came seperated from the end of the cable. from pulling on it too hard when installing, i had absolutely no reception. In other words check the cables First!