DO you get good FM reception on your HU?

[Theride 10+ year member]

I have alpine and the reception sucks

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[mikey060 10+ year member]

NO my FM is not very good

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

I get better reception on my Icom's...but the antenna might have something to do with that //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

 

[bibby 5,000+ posts]

You guys hook up your FM? hmm, I'll have to give that a try.

 

[Theride 10+ year member]

i swear i had better reception on the eclips cd4000 i return.

 

[mikey060 10+ year member]

do people listen to the radio anyways? i hardly ever do

 

[LoudCrownVic 5,000+ posts]

Horrid. once I parked UNDER THE FAKKING TOWER and still had static.

My JVC headunit is okay if you are parked, but that was when I had a car with an antenna.

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

Horrid. once I parked UNDER THE FAKKING TOWER and still had static.
My JVC headunit is okay if you are parked, but that was when I had a car with an antenna.

Actually, I'm not surprised at that. If you're that close to the transmitter, even the best receivers will experience something called desensing, and produce something called imtermodulation distortion because it gets overloaded //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif Professional radio installations often times have huge tunable bandpass filters, six feet high, to keep the front ends of the receivers from overloading when mounted on the tower.

I'm not surprised Alpine's FM receiver sucks, the market demand for a good one isn't there...and no wonder. Except for a few, isolated low power stations on the bottom end of the band or the occasional pirate, there's absolutely nothing worth listening to.

 

[Theride 10+ year member]

so these companies spents all this money and nothing on the FM/AM. It will always be here.

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

so these companies spents all this money and nothing on the FM/AM. It will always be here.

Maybe, but maybe not always in the present form. Analog TV is slowly going digital, even though the FCC is having to drag stations into it kicking and screaming...the same thing is happening on shortwave with DRM (Digital Radio Mondiale, although that's even less popular than over-the-air HDTV is here).

Ideally, commercial broadcasts will go over to satellite, and the FCC could open the 88-108MHz band to experimenters and hobby users...but that will never happen //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[Theride 10+ year member]

why on most stock HU you get very goo reception but aftermarket HU they ****. i feel like i've downgraded. its just annoying that some stations i dont get anymore.

 

[Skip01 5,000+ posts]

I seriously cant remember the last time i listened to the radio.

But my reception sucks on some stationd others its decent.

 

[AcidicDreams 10+ year member]

why on most stock HU you get very goo reception but aftermarket HU they ****. i feel like i've downgraded. its just annoying that some stations i dont get anymore.

It depends alot on your car's atenna... I switched my old kenwood X959 from a 71F250 to a 79 lincoln and it made a remarkable difference. Then moved it to a 1989 accord and it got worse... then I had a kenwood x879 in my 4Runner and it was decent, then swapped in an Alpine 9855 and it got alot better...

However I spent most of my time on AM radio and CD's... I hate the listening to music on the radio...

 

[millerscents 10+ year member]

i never realy had a problame with my hu recepion. even when i was travaling out of town (i could pick up a dalles radio station 105.3fm about 45 min. north of the tx boarder) had a planet audio 2485 in a 95 ford tbird

 

[project f-150 10+ year member]

wow usually had good luck with alpine reception.... especially on a.m. compared to a lot of other units!!