My radio reception in my daily beater is sucking hardcore. My dad's car, parked next to mine, can get a lot more stations, and way clearer than mine. I tried playing with the cable from the antenna, and it didn't make any difference, except the obvious loss of signal when I unplugged it from the radio.

 

come on, with all the fuckin ricers on this board there's gotta be some car audio guy that can give me some ideas of shit to check.

 

Is your antenna shaved and embedded into the rear window?? That may have something to do with it.

Also, different radios have different sensitivity towards picking up radio stations. Has this observation between your dad's vehicle and your own vehicle been a long-term observation, or has your radio performance just started decreasing recently?

 

well I never really thought about it much until the last few months, had a couple instances where I drove my dad's car for a bit and I noticed his reception was much better than mine. Not sure if it's gotten worse over time (i think it has) or not. the antenna is the stock antenna. my beater is a 91 AWD talon, NOT the car in my sig (my weekend car). the other talon has no antenna at all, so i can't compare there. The radio in the car is 6 years old so it wouldn't surprise me too much if there was some issue with it. Everything seems fine and connected in the back where the cable meets the antenna as well, I have checked.

 

try to listen to some of the clear channel stations...z104 is one of them, if that station comes in pretty good but others dont then the problem is in the radio it just has weak reception, that happens over the years with any radio tho, not so much stock ones but more aftermarkets

 

antenna booster

 

LOL.

Radio sensitivity has gone down, time for a new one bud. Better grounding might help in the meantime. Strip back the shielding at either end of the coax and solder it to a ground lead.