Thats unusual, Pioneers have always been known for their Tuners. Wish I could help.
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Yep, really sucks. I'm sure hoping it's something simple, but it's a friggin plug, so not sure what I could be doing wrong. Hopefully tech will have some ideas for me to try. I listen to talk radio about 75% of the time, so I'm going crazy...
Prob is, thats sounds like my uncle, always into his talk radio. Think it maybe a defective HU or something?
fwb_1234
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Might be a bad connection in the antenna wiring. What kind of car do you have?
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2000 Altima. I just swapped out an eXcelon that had perfect radio reception, so not sure what's up with the Pioneer...
CrossFired
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Maybe your ant is grounding out? try a peice of wire and see if it works.
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Thats what I was thinking. Any way you could test the HU in a buddies car?
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Your best bet is to call Pioneer tomorrow. They should know what's up.
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speak hindi often? might need some lessons in it before you call pioneer's tech support. don't mention the hamburgers you ate, either.
lmfao good one, jman.
mlstrass, I hope you can get the problem sorted out. I had a similar problem when I put a HU in my Saab years and years ago. The chassis of the radio was pushing the antennae adapter onto some bare metal under the dash. I ended up wrapping it in electrical tape and the problem was no more.
mlstrass, I hope you can get the problem sorted out. I had a similar problem when I put a HU in my Saab years and years ago. The chassis of the radio was pushing the antennae adapter onto some bare metal under the dash. I ended up wrapping it in electrical tape and the problem was no more.
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Just got off the phone with Pio tech. He suggested connecting the blue/white from the HU into the solid blue/power antenna wire on the adapter. Car has glass antenna, but he said there could be an amplifier for it, that is powered off the blue wire.
Funny thing is I didn't have it connected that way for the past 5 years and the eXcelon & Pio before this one worked fine. But I'll give it a shot tonight. Option 2 was to buy an aftermarket antenna at Pep Boys to isolate issue to car or HU. I'm still thinking HU since the last 2 worked just fine.
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Funny thing is I didn't have it connected that way for the past 5 years and the eXcelon & Pio before this one worked fine. But I'll give it a shot tonight. Option 2 was to buy an aftermarket antenna at Pep Boys to isolate issue to car or HU. I'm still thinking HU since the last 2 worked just fine.
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what does "local" turned off do? not familiar with that Pio. but maybe there are some different radio settings you are missing..
dont even get me started about the weird *** radio settings on my Ural source..
dont even get me started about the weird *** radio settings on my Ural source..
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Well Kudos to the Pio tech guy as that did the trick. Still can't figure out why the last 2 HU's didn't need to be hooked up that way.
LOCAL will only pull in stations with a VERY strong signal...
LOCAL will only pull in stations with a VERY strong signal...
Glad you got that straight, but that is strange that you had to do that with the current HU and not the other 2.
Oh well, at least its fixed now!!
Oh well, at least its fixed now!!
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