My car antenna is in a window. Since I have put in a new HU, radio stations do not play. I have checked/done everything. Nothing has helped. The radio plays fine outside of my vehicle.
Here's my question.
Around the same time as the new HU, I also tinted my windows. Since my antenna is in a window, could the tint be blocking reception?
I hooked an external test antenna up to the HU and still no reception. So deductive logic (if I would have thought of it BEFORE this post) means it can't be the tint.
well you either have a setting messed up on the tuner of that radio or your radio has a bad tuner.. if no antenna works, that tells you its not the antenna.
And this is where I'm dumbfounded. If I pull the radio out and hook it up anywhere else then it picks up stations fine. Same radio in my truck and it doesn't pick up stations...and the antenna isn't the problem.
That's why I thought maybe the tint until I remembered I tried another antenna. I put a reception booster on and now a couple of the clear channel communicaiton stations come in with minor static...for the most part, but even they can sometimes go out.
I'd take the truck back to the service department of the dealership, but they'd say it was the install, and I know that is not it. I'm just at a loss.
i would guess maybe a short in the connection at the rear of your HU. perhaps they yanked the cable during install. "wiggle" it around and see if it maintains. that's my guess, but a guess all the same.
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ive found that if you barely put the antenna wire in the back of the radio it helps clear up stations
if the problem only happens in the car with the tuner, I'm wondering if it's a ground issue. the antenna or the radio/head may have a bad ground. the FM antenna relies on the body of the car to act as the ground plane. a bad ground can cause problems.