Radio aerial's Kaput- Poor reception

[Fat Audi 80]

It never ceases to amaze me the brilliant threads that get started on this forum. I was wondering why my reception was bad on my top of the range Kenwood Mask head unit!!! I don't remember connecting a white wire when I set it up!

10/10 for S2 Forum again!

[Beetie]

Its an easy thing to miss though! Mine was connected but was still getting ***** reception, so my mate gave me an aerial out of his work van! I think they are about 22 quid for a bosch one. Dead easy to change the base, just take the rear interior light, and you can get to it there!

[Jamo]

Hmm still no joy, dont understand how the the crap kenwood got good reception

Think i'd better check the wiring properly with a multimeter!

[Pete_RS2]

Just connected my aerial amp wire to the power aerial pin on the radio as I forgot when I fitted my new stereo a couple of weeks ago. It is definitely the white one. Reception is much better & I can now get MW & LW.

And the grey & blue wire is for illumination.

[Jamo]

Sorted mine out, dodgy wire connector, replaced it, nice reception.

I can't see a grey and blue wire in my car behind the stereo.

Might have fallen down, i know the previous owner didnt use illumination as his prehistoric Alpine (hehehe sorry Al) didnt support it.

The wire hunt begins

[martinjs]

Does this look like the wire which needs connecting.
im suffering from c**p reception, this is the only wire which i didnt connect when wiring in my head unit, its white with a blue line on it?

[Jamo]

You can work it out.

ISO Connector

thats the ISO standard which the S2 follows.

But looking at the picture its already connected.

The white wire from the S2 loom is going to the auto aerial, so maybe your aeril amplifier has had it?

[martinjs]

Theres no wire connected to it, its on its own on the R/H side of the connector in the pic, what should it be connected to, the light blue ATT wire from my head unit?

martin

[Jamo]

No i mean the amp aerial is connected not the top one, which i have no idea what it is although looking at the colours i think it's illumination.

I haven't got one in my car that colour and i'm annoyed about it!

I'll have a look over the weekend as i've got to take the head unit out to run another RCA cable in.

[Jamo]

Think though another member could help out here, as i didnt have an ISO connector in my car when i bought it and had to put one in.

[martinjs]

ahh, so its one of the white wires which is already wired into the live/
the seal at the bottom of my aerial is shot anyway so may as well try anither aerial.

martin

[dan_b]

I need to check mine out still too, my reception is still funky at the best of times

[CoupeWannabeS2]

Hi all,

Just found this thread, and wondered if any could tell me if its possible to cheat slightly to get my radio reception improved. I know that im getting power to the radio amplifier (the white wire), so im assuming that the amplifier has had it.

However rather than change this, can I just install a booster ?

I have found this on ebay and wondered if it may work.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...MEWA%3AIT&rd=1

Any one think it would work ???

Thanks in advance

[Jamo]

Yes it would work, just dont amplify both the aerial and the booster.

Infact thats very trick, i might get myself one

[S2 Ant]

Those boosters work really well, tried and tested (but not on the S2)