anyone else with an 8445 have horrible radio reception?

[04silverz 10+ year member]

ive checked and re checked my wiring at least 5 times and cant find anything wrong. i get seriously 2 channels when im on the island i live on and almost 3 when i get back to mainside. but everyone else gets all the channels on the island you would on mainside. plus even if im off the island and i go like 15 miles from where the station is i lose it. when im in wilmington, about 1 hr south of here, i dont get any stations.

anyone have any ideas?

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[sabre 10+ year member]

Nope, but I have a cd8443 with horrible radio reception. Just started doing it this year. Cd player is 3 years old.

 

[04silverz 10+ year member]

before i had the 8051 for 3+ yrs. it didnt have great reception but def wasnt this bad

i dont listen to the radio alot but it is annoying

 

[khail19 10+ year member]

I have the 8053 and it has terrible reception. I'm like the 3rd owner so I don't know if it was better when it was new. My 3413 and 3424 that I had before both had great reception though.

 

[alboi 10+ year member]

my 8445's reception blows too, every station has static noise in it, my silverados stock unit had wayyy better reception

 

[SlammeD_SiR 10+ year member]

i get one station bairly if im lucky on my alpine

 

[JLCivic 10+ year member]

my 8445's reception blows too, every station has static noise in it, my silverados stock unit had wayyy better reception

Maybe the ONLY aftermarket deck I have ever owned that had better reception than stock is my 8250.

I have owned several Eclipses, and I thought the reception was fine, but do people really listen to am/fm any more? I only listen to satellite and cd now.

 

[bdawson72 5,000+ posts]

my 8445 is way better than my lst aftermarket deck

 

[FoxPro5 5,000+ posts]

Are you sure you have the antenna plugged into the back of the deck?

I've owned the 8445 in addition to 3-4 other Eclipse decks and the radio reception has been good on all of them??

 

[mattldm 10+ year member]

I just installed mine two days ago and the radio reception seems to be about the same as with my old eclipse headunit.

One thing about the antenna connector - I had to REALLY push hard to make sure it was seated all the way in. At first I pushed it about halfway and it stopped so I thought, ok its in. After I wired everything else up I decided to double check the antenna, I pushed harder on the connector than I did at first and "POP" it went in another 3/8" of an inch.

So check your antenna connection!

 

[MegaHurtz 10+ year member]

Are you sure your antenna doesn't need power in order to work properly? I had the same problem in my car for the longest time, when I finally realized that my factory antenna needed a remote lead hooked to it to allow it to turn on.

And on that same note, I DID NOT have reception problems on my CD8445 (or my current CD8455) because this problem had been corrected previously.

Terrestrial radio ***** anyway, get Sirius