External Antenna - Background Info

[Perry, Chris (EDS)]

I believe you have to make sure the rear antenna amplifier is powered as
well or you will get NO AM reception (and crappy FM).  I switched to a Sony
head unit several years ago and found my AM and FM reception to be just
fine.  However I also installed a 10 disk CD changer so listening to the
radio is not really anything I ever do.

Chris Perry
89 90q

-----Original Message-----
From: TM [mailto:t44tq at mindspring.com]
Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2001 8:53 AM
To: Al Powell; Quattro List (E-mail)
Subject: RE: External Antenna - Background Info


Al et al.,
I have this same problem, but with a twist:

My stock Audi/Bose radio gave great radio reception for AM and FM,
but when I scrapped the Bose system, I found that I now have horrible
reception- my Sony radio pulls in FM acceptably, but AM is nil. I
switched between both antennas and the AM reception is still nil.

I don't care about AM reception except for the fact that locally, the
traffic report comes on an AM station every 10 minutes.

Any ideas why the AM reception was fine with the stock radio but absolutely
non existent with an aftermarket one?

Taka