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Best Car Stereo for FM

Zach said:
Ya, VW's all have the stubby antenna. It's amplified, which introduces more problems... But VW's implementation seems a bit better than other OEM radios with the same style...
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My mothers 04 Monte Carlo has the FM antenna on the back window, It also suffers from severe bleed over from all around the dial in areas with alot of strong signals. where 102.1 WDRM can be heard mixed with WAHR 99.1 and WZYP 104.3, all across the dial, and when the RDS kicks in from one station, it will sometimes jump to whichever one is getting through. I actually get better reception on a $25 walkman (WM-FS220) in some places than that radio.

Yet in my fathers 96 Ranger, that radio is a beast, It can pick up things right next to a local 100kW, with very little bleed over. and even the 10w translators have good range on it.
 
BamaWOLF said:
My mothers 04 Monte Carlo has the FM antenna on the back window, It also suffers from severe bleed over from all around the dial in areas with alot of strong signals. where 102.1 WDRM can be heard mixed with WAHR 99.1 and WZYP 104.3, all across the dial, and when the RDS kicks in from one station, it will sometimes jump to whichever one is getting through. I actually get better reception on a $25 walkman (WM-FS220) in some places than that radio.

Yet in my fathers 96 Ranger, that radio is a beast, It can pick up things right next to a local 100kW, with very little bleed over. and even the 10w translators have good range on it.
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Gee, another radio with RDS that isn't worth a dime. My little Radio Shack (Sangean-made) portable shortwave radio with RDS has that same problem. The only good RDS radio I have anymore is my cellphone!

I remember now another really good car radio for FM: my mom had a Nissan in the 90's, with their "diversity antenna" system. It had an retractable antenna in the back and one in the windshield in the front. Not the most selective radio, but pretty sensitive. It was one of the few FM radios I've heard that could take a really choppy signal picket-fencing and make it clean and static free... Two antennas - wonder why so few radios employ that switching technology?

I invented intermod, Robin... hoo hoo! ;)
 
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