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Car FM signal enhancer / booster


Gaurav

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I have owned several cars but some car has better FM reception which hears almost next to CD quality, and others have very poor FM signal with lot of distrurbance. Wondering if there is any device or mod we can install over the antenna or FM receiver to improve the FM signal. Secondly this should also help in bumping the signal strength so that we can hear some crisp music in offroad weak signal area.

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Signal boosters/amplifiers are available. They're very compact and will fit behind the head unit. Also pretty easy to install, probably a 10 minute job depending on how difficult or easy it is to remove the head unit. The antenna wire goes in one side and the other side goes to the head unit. Power is supplied by the electric antenna or amplifier remote output on the head unit. They work to an extent but the signal from the transmitter needs to be good to start with. You can't boost what isn't there. I imagine the radio transmitters in UAE will be transmitting on a pretty low wattage as it's a small country and they don't need huge coverage. If you're too far away from the transmitter and the signal is bad to begin with you will just end up with amplified white noise on top of the signal. It's just one of these things you have to install and see if it works for you. 

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Thanks Barry, any idea from where to buy those and what are their specifications and how expensive they are?

desertdude: My FM reception isn't bad at all, but I like to optimize more for road and off-road.

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Locally, I don't know where to get them but I'd imagine some of the specialist radio and accessory shops may have. Have a look on eBay. There's a big selection for under 10 dollars.

http://m.ebay.com/sch/i.html?isRefine=true&_nkw=Car radio signal booster&ssPageName=GSTL&_mwBanner=1

I tried one before like in the picture below but this was maybe 15 years ago. I bought a cheap Chinese head unit and the radio was crap so I had to use this. I can't say if it was good or bad, it was so long ago and I can't remember. 

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Just like to bump my old thread.

As per recent exploration of finding the burst fuse in my Range, I spotted LR using 4 FM signal booster, 2 on each side in the boot and glued to some part of car body metal. This setup delivers amazing crisp quality FM reception with awesome bass, that often gets screwed due to bad reception.

Can we do that similar style in my Pajero.....?

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Not to mention the L322 has two discreetly hidden huge antennas, guess that helps too. 

How bout simply trying to install a better antenna and a booster first. Should help.

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