On Thu, 20 Apr 1995, The Warped Goat wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have a question about the radio antenna on my '68 MGB. It's a
> side-mount antenna that I recently re-attached, its having spent several
>years
> away from the car. I reconnected the coaxial cable to the antenna, and now I
> get AM channels fine, but FM is non-functional. Any ideas? I thought the
> outer casing of the coaxial wire was the ground, but maybe it's for FM while
> the inner wire is for AM?
>
> Benjy Edwards.
My guess is that you don't have contact between the inner wire and the
antenna, so that the antenna isn't connected at all. Try disconnecting
the coax from the bottom of the antenna completely; I suspect the
reception won't change.
Ray Gibbons Dept. of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
Univ. of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu (802) 656-8910
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