Radio reception improved
Discussion
Background: My S1 has recently been to car hospital for HGF correction and a spruce up.
Radio reception has long been a lost cause. The radio (Radio 2, God's own channel...I don't tend to listen to anything else...don't go Terry!) did seem to work reasonably well when I first got the car 4 years ago, then one day reception became very patchy and was never the same again. I put it down to letting the engine cover drop, disturbing the aerial wiring, but always wondered if a radio transmitter up at Winter Hill had been removed or had had a power reduction.
Anyway, of late I've been using the radio on my mobile phone, plugged through its headphone jack into the Aux input on my car stereo, to get my Radio 2 fix. Why the phone can get great reception with a few feet of cable as an antenna, whilst the car aerial is all but useless I don't know, but I digress.
Last week I came out of work to find the phone charge was too low to allow the radio to operate, so I put the phone away and thought what the hell and turned on the actual car radio...and lo, radio reception was fantastic and has been ever since.
I'm up in the North Cheshire/Wigan area under the gaze of Winter Hill. Anyone else notice a similar reception improvement over the last few weeks, or has the recent engine work perhaps disturbed something and sorted the aerial out?
I'm thinking there's been a transmission power boost (perhaps since the digital switch over), but either way it's great to be able to listen to the radio properly again!
Radio reception has long been a lost cause. The radio (Radio 2, God's own channel...I don't tend to listen to anything else...don't go Terry!) did seem to work reasonably well when I first got the car 4 years ago, then one day reception became very patchy and was never the same again. I put it down to letting the engine cover drop, disturbing the aerial wiring, but always wondered if a radio transmitter up at Winter Hill had been removed or had had a power reduction.
Anyway, of late I've been using the radio on my mobile phone, plugged through its headphone jack into the Aux input on my car stereo, to get my Radio 2 fix. Why the phone can get great reception with a few feet of cable as an antenna, whilst the car aerial is all but useless I don't know, but I digress.
Last week I came out of work to find the phone charge was too low to allow the radio to operate, so I put the phone away and thought what the hell and turned on the actual car radio...and lo, radio reception was fantastic and has been ever since.
I'm up in the North Cheshire/Wigan area under the gaze of Winter Hill. Anyone else notice a similar reception improvement over the last few weeks, or has the recent engine work perhaps disturbed something and sorted the aerial out?
I'm thinking there's been a transmission power boost (perhaps since the digital switch over), but either way it's great to be able to listen to the radio properly again!
The ariels in the R are very different but I improved my signal for both analog and digital buy re routing the ariels to the front of the clam, and routing them away from possible interference items like looms, fuse boxes, windscreen wiper motors, fans, lights etc etc. Much better. I also re located the GPS antenna to the front of the clam and now I can lock on to 6-8 satelites in no time. While the clam is off, it is a must do job.
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