fav station at 90 mile fringe recep. radio has 3ft single stran wire no plug in, what to do?
490096
This antenna is a step up from a wire antenna, but it can't do much in your situation. It can go from almost-good reception to good reception. Sounds like you'll need an amplified antenna. You may even need to install an outdoor one to get reliable reception.
490097
Get an adapter to attach wires and plug it in. This antenna did not work well for me in a steel sided shop
54907
lot of factors can influence it (building type, distance to station, etc.), but for starters, did you hook up the included external wire antenna? Also, make sure you switch the switch on the back to "external" if you do. The default is "internal"
1965891
sorry, no idea. i have enuf of a problem getting a signal to the strongest am station in calif. i'm ready to dump this thing on ebay.
54908
Try the external antenna (extended, switch it to external). Try another location in the house for the radio. Try orienting the antenna differently and at least a foot away from large metal objects (which could change the nature of the antenna or block the signal). Try using a dipole antenna located remotely, higher, or in the clear with respect to the desired station. This may mean a getting a balun ($5), some coax (several dollars), and a folded FM dipole antenna ($7). Finally, consider putting an RF preamplifier between the folded dipole antenna and the radio. If none of that helps, you have a difficult location, a faulty radio, or a requirement to receive a station with too weak a signal to your location. When it's finally working and you realize that it has a serious deficit in fidelity (muddy, bassy, little midrange, no highs), as I did, put a more ordinary radio nearby and turn it up just enough to hear the midrange and highs. The combined sound will be a lot more like you had hoped for to begin with. I am profoundly displeased with the lack of audio fidelity and range in this radio. It is essentially a subwoofer with a tuner and not much more. How people rate it so highly is a complete and utter mystery to me. A profound ignorance of audio fidelity in the population at large, I guess.
695665
There is a standard usb port on the back of the radio. Run the wire during the install and leave it.
1924249
I highly recommend your own antenna if you want to get the most distance out of the transmitter. I still got a solid mile easy with it, no sound degradation. But the connector on mine was loose so if it wasn't balanced vertically it would fall over. It was about 3 feet extended, maybe 10" folded, between 1/4"-1/8" diameter. Pretty normal looking radio antenna, just used for transmitting instead of receiving. :-P Any more questions I'll try to answer, but extreme specifics I'll have to ask the guy at my church cause I gave it to them for drive in movies. :-)
1263479
In Colorado, US I found the Tecsun PL880 useless. I could not pick up any stations on SW or LW, even with the supplied longwire antenna. Maybe it is because I live near some mountains in CO, but I was not happy with it at all and returned it after several days of effort to receive any shortwave station.
994600
Good evening, first turn on device, insert in (ant) the jack cable it works like antena, press mode until you hear radio, press button right side to "repeat" it scan the station, if you want to select the station press again.
7489
You have to get a splitter to connect to the cable and then to the radio. So your radio has to have an external hard-wire antenna connection for this to work. It should improve the reception given that you are reasonably pointed to the radio tower with line of sight. Good luck.
2264377
Mmmm the radio sistem ask you for that...but you can skip that procedure with a special conection....check somo tutorials in you tube
2096545
OK, near a window? In the city? Let me suggest this: In the center pin of your coax plug, unbend a paperclip, carefully insert it into that coax in on your tv and connect a long wire or :conductive" material to it (foil). If you rescan with that in and STILL get nothing, unlikely but may happen, it's your location. If it picks up anything, the antenna's a dud. If it works, gauge what you can get from a homebrew antenna and go up from there. This may not be strong enough to hit your local channels. I know of a 50 mile radius antenna at $60; before you throw in the towel, try the paperclip trick. THe HomeWorx is inexpensive; returns are "meh." Good luck!
2092185
It has a long, thin wire (antenna), about 34" long that plugs in on top of radio. Antenna didn't seem to do much good. Couldn't get many stations at work. Sound is not good. Would invest in a more expensive radio.
68277
I concur with the previous answer. I too use only batteries which produce less interference when tuning in to shortwave.
523155
You only need to drill a small hole and feed it through the wake Tower. Or I guess you could run the wire outside the wake tower down and then into the radio.
906573
I used the TERK ADVANTAGE for AM which can be placed next to the Eaton antenna, or plugged in to the radio as an external unit. Mine works better next to the set, and I pick up cleveland wtam in the chicago area, but do get some fading.
85740
There are only three stations. One at 88.1, one somewhere towards 97 and, one at 107.9. Depending on the area you are in and the number of radio stations around, one of the three usually works without disruption.
5804
I have a #4 stranded wire running to mine straight from the battery. You just need to have a sub out on your radio to go to the sub woofer. I've had mine installed for two years and love it. Just enough bass to feel it but not enough to rattle the guy next to you. Fighting the wire to get it through the fire wall will be the worst part.