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:dclark1946 wrote:
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.
That tells me everything I need to know. The TV antenna is tuned to VHF/HUF not to Am broadcast. It is a very poor choce for AM Broadcast
IF you like AM radio, Get the longest Automotive antenna you can lay your hands on and install it. The longer the better..
For FM. it may work, or you can switch back.
Exactly. The antenna manufacturer offers another model that does have AM capability. It requires a second coax cable carrying only the AM signal to the TV,FM, distribution box where the AM signal is combined with the FM signal. This combined signal is then fed to the radio receiver. The RV manufacturer chose not to use that model leaving us with no AM capability. I am not sure how difficult it is to pull another coax cable from the TV antenna to the distribution box if we switch to the other model TV antenna.
