My Alpine head unit's tuner reception is absolutely horrible!!

Everything else is fine, but the tuner doesn't pick up **** for radio stations (fades in and out).

Almost sounds like I didn't hook up the antenna when I installed it (but, I'm positive I did...)

Anyone else experiencing anything like that??

 

The reception on my Alpine sucks ***, too.

 

Well, what the hell???

 

Mine sucks so bad that I thought I had forgotten to plug the antenna link in all the way when I installed my deck. I took the deck out and reseated the antenna. It got a *little* better, but it's still awful IMO.


Anyone have any answers to this?

 

I had this problem too. It is fixed by connecting power to the antenna amplifier. This has been posted with pictures.


There is a green and white wire at the harness behind the radio that needs 12V power. Connect this and all will work well.

https://my350z.com/forum/showthread....hlight=antenna

 

I don' t have a touring model, so I didn't have the bose system. Do all systems have this antenna amplifier?

 

Yes. Ihave the same head unit and my reception is fine. I think I just hooked mine up to the red power wire. Hope this helps.

Matt

 

I'll just hook mine up to the remote turn on lead (from the Metra harness) when I wire up my Basslink. That should work, right?

 

No ****? Thanks a bunch!