In my Tiger which I have kept scrupulously stock, I removed the cubby hole
box and made a face plate for the hole in the dash and installed a modern in
1986 am/fm with casette player. I changed earth to negative in the car. I
still have the cubby box and can put it back in. I like the radio. I did not
like a radio under the dash. Things always move on. Gary B9472283
who sinned.
--- On Wed, 8/18/10, David T Johnson <djoh797014@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: David T Johnson <djoh797014@yahoo.com>
Subject: [Tigers] Marconi boxes
To: Tigers@autox.team.net
Date: Wednesday, August 18, 2010, 4:32 AM
AM radios in Tigers are almost useless. They do receive static well.
FM
radios were not common andn were usually came with the superior
Blaupunkt.
The radio location and the proximity of the engine and generator wass the
culprit. I wrote many memos about killing the static. There sre many fixes
and filters (resisterplags and wires, inline filters, etc) all of which may
or may not work. I tried them all but with my LAT hood with its
radio
transparency I could not filter the radio. The problem was
the static was
being transmktted to the antenna and then to the radio.
Steel hood users did
not have this issue. Ken Bishops has his
antenna in the back.
The fix was to
install a simple toroid coil at the radio end of the
antenna. Voila almost
no static. Available at any electronic shop or Radio
Trash, the coils are for
PCs to stop interferring noise. Its less than $10 and
is rectangular plastic
about 1 by 2 inches. Split the coil apart (its is already
designed to divide
it half). Wrap the antenna lead 2 or 3 times in the split
half. The closer
to the end the better. Reassemble and stick it back into the
radio.
My
ultimate fix was to take my radio face off and install it of a junk Jensen
AM/FM radio. I looked for one that the knobs matced the face plate.
Cost
about $10. I saved the rest of my radio. I ran a small switch
to change
from AM to FM. Now I can listen to quiet FM. Few have
noticed especially
with the correct Chrysler face plate and speaker box.
kept the original
speaker and box and sdded 2 Jensens on each side. Speaker
location is a
problem with Tigers. The PO had cut holes in the kck panel
and I screwed
the Jensens to the carpet to keep them from
moving around.Yes I know I'm
screwing with the impedence. Its probably
about 3 ohms I guess. I have 4
speakers left/right and front/back plus
the original front facing speaker. The
radio sounds great.
Ken Bishops static solution is his Tape Player.
I do not
take credit for everything Tony has said. On second
thought. Yes I do.
Dave
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