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hey guys,

i have been getting some poor radio reception on some stations in certain areas and poor reception on one station in all areas (96.1).

is this a deck or antenna related problem?

Is there something i can buy to boost the antenna reception?

any help much appreciated.

hey guys,

i have been getting some poor radio reception on some stations in certain areas and poor reception on one station in all areas (96.1).

is this a deck or antenna related problem?

Is there something i can buy to boost the antenna reception?

any help much appreciated.

That is so vaugue , how the hell can we troubleshoot that haha

What city?

Weather at the time?

speed?

model of car?

Type of radio?

Type of antenna / stock or ?

jap freq expander ?

cut antenna wires soldered job?

mountains/ buildings / metal / concrete or a million other things affect it

Yes you can amplify the signal , most on time in the city it overloads the PLL circuit and you get multipath ( picket fence sound as you move or mutiple stations )

try a handheld radio in the same area ?

Or use a smart phone to run the digital signal off net ?

sorry my bad haha

Sydney metro

weather (doesn't matter whether its sunny/rain/hail) the one station is still crap

very rare do i get clear signal for a few seconds but it is still very distorty

speed (doesn't matter as it is same as weather)

evo 7

alpine IVA-W200E

no jap freq expander (had this on my skyline with the jap deck and it was sh*t, changed to a aus deck and had crystal clear radio reception)

standard antenna/aerial on the car

no cut antenna wires from what i can see.

i bought a fm 12v signal booster online and will try that and see how it goes.

evo 7 has an amplified antenna. is tht powered. there should be a single pin plug on te main harness. wire shoukd be yellow. power that and you should have radio again. fm booster wont help. those are a waste of money.

evo 7 has an amplified antenna. is tht powered. there should be a single pin plug on te main harness. wire shoukd be yellow. power that and you should have radio again. fm booster wont help. those are a waste of money.

Yep exactly those "amp antenna inline boosters "dont work they just over power the radios fm

and create other problems

That alpine with a 2 dollar antenna should work great?

Funny enough I drove a friends lancer VRX in that vintage a lot and the stock top spec radio it had issues with fm dropout and stereo sound drop off no matter where the car was in town or out , never did dig into why but it might be a common cause lile a broken antenna mast internally ?

  • 2 weeks later...

just an update,

the P.ANT from the deck was not connected so i wired it to the yellow wire as stated by Chris Rogers,

it helped but not by much, the main channel i want (96.1) is still fuzzy :(

so does that mean it is either my deck or my antenna?

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