Radio Reception...

[bermudabob]

Does anyone have a piccy of how they shielded their arial from the engine? Just curious as to how it was done, and what was used - tin foil or otherwise...

[malbon]

Think Tigga! on seloc sells a grounding plate for this.

 

But really...I reckon its down to the quality of the headunit. On my std one i could only pick up Radio 1 but on this new stereo I have it gets everything - still not perfect but loads better - with standard ariel and everything else.

[bermudabob]

mines an Alpine aftermarket unit - its not bad at times but in some areas its dead.

 

And don't get me started on how close I have to hold my ipod + iTrip to it for it to work...

[Steve J]

Have a look in the garage at my car. I have a picture of what I did linked to the modification.

[Glennman]

I shielded my ariel from the engine

bay with Foil as advised and it didnt

make any difference. Don't think the

head unit quality will make a difference

over the £150 mark as mine still doesnt

get anything and its a top of the range unit.

 

Well pissed off with no Radio.....Think i may

sell it and get engine mods

 

Glenman

[bermudabob]

Has anyone tried a DAB radio? is that any better/worse reception wise?

[chris_h]

Has anyone tried a DAB radio? is that any better/worse reception wise?

 

I think DAB will be worse as if the signal level drops you get nothing instead of it going a little bit noisy.

 

The reception in my exige is really quite good. I only lose reception in really bad areas. The exige has a front mounted di-pole (in the front clam somewhere)

 

Chris

[Fiona]

I shielded my ariel from the engine

bay with Foil as advised and it didnt

make any difference. Don't think the

head unit quality will make a difference

over the £150 mark as mine still doesnt

get anything and its a top of the range unit.

 

Well pissed off with no Radio.....Think i may

sell it and get engine mods

 

Glenman

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Maybe get one of Tigga's grounding plates? Rob, I think you should try the foil as it was 200 x improvement for us.

[bermudabob]

I'll give the foil a go first - I'm always up for a quick fix...

 

If not, I may well contact Tigga...

[ipanter]

My reception gets loads better if i switch my headlamps on, dunno why but it works.

 

It is probably the same reason why my temp gauge increases 2 degrees with every electrical device i have swiched on. I can get it to go from 98 to 90 just by switching radio, fan, main beam and headlamps off!!

[Steve J]

Not in the dark I hope

[bermudabob]

OK - I looked at the old arial lead - and its already got some sort of ally foil tube thing around it... so, there goes that theory... I wonder if the plate would help...

[Glennman]

Yeah ive contacted Tigger too see if

he is still doing the grounding plates

 

Glennman

[bermudabob]

Has anyone replaced the standard arial with an aftermarket one? If so, did it make a difference?

[Scott_Mac]

Sounds like you have a dodgy earth if switching the headlights on helps.

 

DAB will help, but as said above, when the signal goes weak, it disappears, you don't just get hissing... it uses a different aerial, different broadcast etc so is better.

 

As for the iTrip A9part from it being illegal in this country ) why not use the AUX input to the head unit, i'm guessing it has one as most Alpine units made in the last 10 years do...