Used to be that any new radio had an adjustment you had to make to tune the antenna for am. I believe this was called a trimmer. If it is not done, your reception will be poor.  Could be that new radios do this automatically, but it is something you may want to check.

Todd

> This is a followup to the issue im running into with no/poor reception on my
> radio.
>
> I have a new headunit already and that didnt help (had to replace that
> anyway.)
>
> Now I have a brand new antenna, standard black tiawan one from Bus Depot,
> but that didn't seem to help any yet either.
>
> Next I have to replace the actual antenna cable going to the back of the
> radio. When I swapped the antenna itself last night I just re-used the same
> original cable, so perhaps that was the cause all along? we'll see.
>
> It must be something funky, because the PO even had a little FM booster
> mounted in the cabin when I first purchased the vanagon. It helped boost the
> signal of the FM, but not the AM and when on it was pretty grainy/fuzzy.
>
> ill update again after I swap the antenna cable itself, hopefully later
> tonight.
>
> chris