No AM on dee wireless

Thanks to Peter and Utemad for their replies , I will have to give up and go to the pros , Peter I have had a real good look for that extra arial wire but cant find one and the book does not mention it I have got the fealin that utemad might be on the money , I have at one stage taken the antena base out and made sure that it was well eathed but no good so I am on my way out to blow a hundred dollars to get someone to have a look at it , thanks again and cheers from roughneck

Are you able to do the test that I mentioned yourself?

Since you have had two radios in your car and AM works on neither then I am sure it would be the antenna earth.

Although if you do have to take it to a shop to get it looked at I shouldn't think it would cost any more than approx $60 so long as you don't need any parts.

From memory the Nissan Patrol has a double antenna plug. So instead of the long thin pointy plug which is standard on most cars the Patrol has a round stubby plug with two pins. To fit an aftermarket stereo you need an adapter to plug the factory antenna plug into it.

What year/vehicle do you have?

The cable below is for connecting a Nissan radio to an aftermarket antenna. So this shows you the Nissan plug I was talking about as well as the normal plug.



So the reason you couldn't find a second antenna plug is because there isn't one.

Thanks for all your help forumites , I went out to my local radio installer and just my luck he has gone out of business so went to the auto lecky and he seam to think that it was the aerial so went and bought one went home and pulled the radio back out to install the aerial and what I found would amaze you it had a special addapter with power connected I pulled that out and wam oh away she went AM FM the lot bloody mongrel so all up it cost $289 for the radio $42 for the arial none of which I neaded so I was wondering if anyone got the lesson I learned , go and pull the lot apart and check it out before handing over the goodies and buying new parts , I bet if I had taking it to the pros they would not have told me about this other wire after installing the new gear .... Not to worry it is only money when it is all said and done .. Thanks to all once again for all your help ,Roughneck

Well that came from left field. I guess it was a powered signal booster.

Have a go at selling your old gear on Ebay. Who knows you might just come out ahead :-)

G'Day Roughneck,

I put in a 10dB booster to try to get better signal out in the sticks, better on FM, but guess what - no reception at all on AM.

Pull the booster out and AM returns.

sounds exactly what you've found, bl&&dy booster cost me $35 and now in the bin

Regards

Rolande