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Any ideas for boosting my car radio's range?
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So I've recently bought a 99 Golf, and I absolutely love it. One of my biggest complaints is the teeny little antennae they put on this thing. If you see a Golf driving around, its that little black one, maybe 8 inches long that they have on the roof. It sucks!

I live in Milwaukee going to school, but I'm from Chicago,and I'm a talk radio/sports radio junkie. My old shitty Grand Am could get those Chicago AM stations easily, but my new car only gets them in perfect weather or at night. (?)

So the basic question for you car kids is this: Is there a simple way I can increase my radio's range? If not, is there an aftermarket antennae I can buy that would increase the range? How hard would this be to install? Would a wire clothes hanger work? I dont give a fuck how it looks, I just want to get some decent stations other than this Republican Jesus-Freak nonsense...


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Re: Any ideas for boosting my car radio's range? [Re: Madtowntripper]
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http://www.ccrane.com/antennas/auto-antennas/index.aspx

I love WLUW 88.7 and Chicago Public Radio.

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Re: Any ideas for boosting my car radio's range? [Re: Vvellum]
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See, thats the thing. There really isnt a mount for my radio. Theres no hole in the car, except a tiny one for a wire to go through. I need a big magnet, or a suction cup I think.


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After one comes, through contact with it's administrators, no longer to cherish greatly the law as a remedy in abuses, then the bottle becomes a sovereign means of direct action.  If you cannot throw it at least you can always drink out of it.  - Ernest Hemingway

If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it.  In the law courts, in business, in government.  There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent.    -Cormac MacCarthy

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.  - Aeschylus

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Re: Any ideas for boosting my car radio's range? [Re: Madtowntripper]
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look up ham radio sites/forms.


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Re: Any ideas for boosting my car radio's range? [Re: Madtowntripper]
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If I remember right, C. Crane radio company sells a device that you place near an antenna, which vastly boosts it's reception... at least on the AM band. I'll see if I can find it for you.

Ack, no... I can't find it.

However, they do sell a very high quality antenna replacement. If you don't have a hole, I think you'd be best off just drilling one for it.
http://www.ccrane.com/antennas/auto-antennas/full-replacement-auto-antenna.aspx

*edit*

Oh, here's that little bastard:
http://www.ccrane.com/antennas/am-antennas/select-a-tenna-regular-model.aspx

All you do is place it near the antenna. It requires no physical connection. Duct tape the damn thing to the ceiling if you want to :tongue:


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