How do you connect this antenna to the radio? i have a sony dream machine, and hoping to improve am reception..
1877776
Mona, I connected mine to a screw terminal on the back of my Yamaha home theater/ AM/FM receiver, the Yamaha has 2 of the screw terminals on for AM and one for Fm. We live in a rural area so I also use an Fm antenna, I can only pickup stations from Sierra Vista about 10 miles north of us.
1877777
You dont connect it physically. You just place it beside your radio. You must tune the dial on the antenna to the frq you are listening to. Move it from the side of your radio to the back to find the sweet spot. Then just leave it there. The sweet spot can be different at different frequencies.
1877778
If your radio has terminals for an external antenna, connect the cable from the antenna to those terminals. If not, the radio has an internal antenna, so you should place the antenna near the radio and experiment. The antenna is highly directional with strongest reception perpendicular to the axis of the loop.
1877779
This antenna does not need a cable connection to work. The key is to position the antenna close to the radio and then tune the antenna to the individual frequency you want to hear. Here are the steps to make it work the best. 1. tune your radio to the station you want to hear. 2. rotate the radio and listen for the strongest signal. It may be faint, but try to zero in on it. 3. Place the Terk antenna next to the right side of the radio at a right angle, so that the antenna dial is touching the radio - like a T on its side 4. Now tune the antenna dial to the same frequency that you are listening to. There is a numerical chart engraved on the dial. The signal strength should get noticeably stronger when you have tuned it correctly. Gently tweak the antenna dial until you get the best signal and leave it. 5. Remember, each station must be tuned individually with the antenna. It will not work unless the radio and the antenna frequencies match and the antenna is very close (touching) the radio. Good luck.
160375
Raise the antenna. Maybe purchase an external antenna and plug it into the antenna slot.
1796188
Sorry - I can't help. On both radios the FM and AM antenna hook ups are separate and I have it only hooked to the FM port. There may be a connector that allows this for both frequencies.
1180150
Mine came with a antenna. If I was looking for a replacement I would try radio shackI hope this helps you.
1609293
I'm pretty sure you need a radio. I think you either have to use the auxiliary port on the radio or tune it through a certain radio station if you don't have a port.
221942
on mine i had to do auto tuning but i also had to connect the cable tv cable that was not operational to the back of this power antenna then out from antenna to tv make sure antenna is pluged into wall and turned on this worked for me but this antenna still wont ge every channel so i ended up going to radio shack and put up an outdoor antenna that worked perfect and gets every channel crystal clear it was 37.00 this antenna is the best iv ever used and will recomend it to anyone it has a 50 mile range from the mountain where signals are transmitted try this and good luck to you gary
1158971
The FM antenna uses a slip-on coaxial connector. It also comes with a RED 75 ohm matching transformer. The AM uses a bare wire connection. You can call Twerk customer service tech info at 800-290-6650 to clarify further for your specific situation.
855974
I wish I could help you, but I had a technician try to get the antenna to work. It didn't improve the cell phone reception, but I don't think it was the antenna. I just live in an extremely remote area. Good luck.
271298
You have to purchase a Sirius xm tuner/antenna module then just plug it into the back and the radio becomes totally sirius xm and fm/am aux Pandora etc. Great radio. Mount the sirius module under the dash or in a glove box.
2111880
I think that the output from the antenna is a digtal format. If you want to convert that to a analog format you could use your converter box for that purpose.
1335857
AM/FM reception on my stock antenna (Ram 1500) was fine on all channels. Switched to the stubby and the only channel I had reception on was a local LI station and even that had a significant amount of static. Left the radio tuned to that station, switched back the the regular antenna and the signal was crystal clear.
1948717
Great, just hook it up to a GOOD outside antenna and plug it into the power and USB on your receiver and it will assist you Good Luck
2278025
I believe that if you desire to listen to AM, you could turn off the Siriusxm radio which would then revert to normal radio reception. This would give you access to AM band via direct vehicle antenna connection. There is also the possibility that a local AM station would be able to circumvent the adapter by its signal strength so you would not have to turn off XM radio. That's all I got.
921998
I plugged my receiver into a cable jack after installing this on the roof and I got amazing reception of FM radio. Don't know about AM. An antenna doesn't discriminate the signals being received, for the most part.
1936639
I have a magnetic mount antenna and had trouble tuning this with the Midland. This is, I'm told, due to the radio possibly not be grounded well enough. A rep from K40 suggested connecting a wire to a metal part of the vehicle and the PL256 adaptor. I havnt tried this. Thinking of getting a different antenna that connects to the vehicle, in order to get a better ground.
1274114
Try connecting a cord to line-in or the headphone jack (even if nothing is connected to them). This can apparently act as an antenna to improve reception.
2046626
It comes with a cable to connect to the two AM terminals or just place it next to the existing antenna. It works well either method.