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You can’t be serious. No one listens to the few remaining AM stations. Most radios don’t even have AM receivers anymore. Except for emergency broadcast and a few public service stations, I thought all real radio stations moved to FM and the better ones to HD-FM.

[Peter]

I only listen to AM.

On a clear night I can pick up WWVA and get great country music with hank Williams and Patsy Cline.

If it is really a good night I can get WABC on 770 out of the meadowlands of NJ. What’s FM?

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Jon, I didn’t see much beyond talk radio on either of those stations. You might try WNAX. They still broadcast Lawrence Welk. The last time I listened to AM in the US was way back when. I listened to WLS (Chicago) while living in Florida.

Music should never be listened to our AM; it lacks fidelity.

[needtocamp]

“My old radio gave up the ghost and I replaced it with a Kenwood. Even with this new radio I still can not recieve AM stations. FM is Okay. Is this comon?”

Maybe you need an external antenna.

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it’s got one

I like talk radio, too much new wave country music and such.

If I can’t get good AM I think something is wrong with the set up. Plus is pop real loud between functions.

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Gil,

Until they make hearing aids and old ears in HD sound, AM radio sounds just fine.

My car only has an AM radio.

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I see no one really answered your question and I am not sure I can either. If we assume the new radio works, then the issue will be the antenna , the coax from the antenna or the connectors. Also you cannot get good AM reception unless the antenna is in clear space while testing – not in a barn or around electrical interferences. Unless you want to read about the theory of radio, the best solution might be your local mobile audio store. They can check for proper grounding, connections etc. Radio installations on RV’s are notoriously poor especially on fiberglass. An older Prevost should be the best case scenario .

Wave

w5sk

[Jim/Chris]

Greg, I think you said both old and new radios don’t work well. If so, I would looking at the antenna. As already stated, installations in fiberglass can be problematic. The antenna should and is likely on the roof. This to prevent metal shell interference of a side mount. The antenna needs a ground plane to be most effective. Typically, this comes from the sheet metal the antenna is metallically mounted to. If mounted to fiberglass or not metallically bonded to metal, you can help fix this. If you can access the bottom of the antenna and remove the antenna you can add a sheet metal plate under the antenna that it would mount to. The plate should then have an old fashion braided ground strap attached to it and the coaches shell to make the shell part of the ground plane.

You could also have a FM antenna, which would be no surprise. An AM antenna will be much longer than a FM antenna.

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It is mounted on metal, but I will try and follow the cable from the roof to the radio. It does have a switch to allow you to switch between the stick radio antenae, TV disk antenae (there is a frequency splitter in the line) and cable. Reception is the same with the first two but nothing with the cable. The AM reception is not a big deal except for the fact that if doesn’t work good and that bothers me.

[Robin]

Can you wire around the splitter (I think you described a selector switch)? If the cables have F connectors just pick up a F bullet connector from your local Radio Shack or pickup a TV wall plate from Home Deport. I can’t imagine a single rationale reason to run the AM/FM antenna through a splitter. Almost all rooftop TV antennas will pick up local FM broadcasts. Not that matters anyway as what is usually at the other end of those selector swicthes is a TV, not a radio.

[Bob]

You are right about the radio needing a ground plane for the antenna to work correctly. The aluminum roof will not provide this and on my roof I have a large sheet of stainless steel riveted to the roof and this does nothing for the antenna either. CC mounted several of the antennas there, GPS, Sat etc.

My Boes doesn’t work either because the AM antenna there is proprietary to there unit, has a funny plugin for the head unit.

Maybe the answer is an amplified unit with a piece of metal under neath the mount like some one suggested above.

Really bugs me that I can’t listen to Rush when I am travelling.

[Jerry]

Funny, Rush comes in loud and clear on my Liberty. Must be a CC issue.

Of course Rush is on 98.7 in Knoxville.

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No ground plane antenna boys, that’s the ticket. They make them for CB’s and I believe am/.fm

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You know Jon, I think if I opened one of my windows Rush would come in loud and clear, radio or not.

My political hero. All I am going to say. We won’t go there.

I have to try and find one of the no ground plane antennas. Thanks

[Jerry]

Jon,

Is your AM listening done using the crystal radio kit from Montgomery Wards catalog? I used to keep one of them things under my bed back in the ’50s and could get WOWO from near Chicago in Baltimore on a clear night. I think it was some DJ named Casey something. Isn’t it time you upgrade your radio receiver. Does the crystal radio work inside the Prevost?