No AM Reception on New Trailer
I am working out issues on our new trailer. On the initial camp out I tried out the new entertainment system and everything seemed to be OK except no AM reception when you tuned through the whole band...
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wa8yxm wrote:
Ok, since I do not know your trailer.. What is it made of (Siding?)
AM radios will not work well inside a metal can.. (ALso known as a Farady Cage) it is possible to make them work but you need an OUTSIDE antenna to do it.
Ideally about 75 meters of wire, wrap twice around radio, ground one end, toss the other up over trees..
In practice even 30-50 feet will work or less. Just get it OUTSIDE teh trailer
There are also several portable High Performance AM radio antennas you can couple to the radio, Some can be "Remoted" (put outside the trailer) for improved performance.. I suggest a Google Search.
Our trailer is fiberglass with all aluminum frame same as our previous trailer. The receiver has a Motorola antenna jack fed from the external TV antenna with an RF splitter or perhaps diplexer feeding the radio antenna jack. I think a more elegant solution to the wire in the trees is an external rv whip antenna feeding the receiver directly (the way our old trailer did it) rather than the current TV antenna on this new trailer.
