I cannot seem to get good radio reception with any ariel!

Some am/fm radio's give good reception and others are hopeless.

There are some good brands noted for good reception but I don't know which ones.

Someone out there will put you onto them

Have a good one

Did you replace the base and cable as well? you may have a problem with the sheilding of the lead shorting with the centre wire, due to either the cable being flattened somewhere or it has been badly terminated at either end, usually the plug going into the set.
Chris

why dont you try connecting your radio to your mates aerial and that will confirm if its the radio or aerial...........just a suggestion

To get good reception in the bush i attach a long wire lead to aerial and at the end tie off a piece of light fishing line with a sinker attached.

Peg the sinker as high as possible into tree and when ready to leave pull down.

Pedro

Is the outer of the co-ax making a good earth to the vehicle?

owen

GN - how old is your radio?

I ask this because I transferred a ten year old 27 MHz radio to a new car once and thought it was fine till I got into a convoy and found I had a range of about 50 metres!

My solution after much mucking around was to get a new radio (UHF this time) which has worked well for years until the past year or so when we seem to have trouble with transmission to others. I have replaced the mike because the TX button was faulty but the "funny things" still happen.

I am starting to wonder if the whole set up has a life of about ten years.

In both cases they were GME radios.

Max

Are you talking about

- AM broadcast
- FM broadcast
- UHF CB
- HF VKS737

???