Awful reception with GEX-P20HD - fault antenna?

[jonbruce]

Just had the Pioneer AVICF90-BT installed by BestBuy - they did on the surface a pretty good job.

 

My FM/AM and HD Radio reception with the (Pioneer GEX-P20HD) is just awful. Vastly worse than my factory radio. Looks like the install-tech only wired the antenna into the HD Radio box, so my AVIC FM and AM options are non-functional.

 

Spoke to BestBuy today and they recommended, I get a Antenna splitter to re-enable the AVIC-FM and AM option. Also he recommended I get an antenna booster. He said it's quite possible my antenna has degraded. Is there any truth to this ? I have a 2005 Toyota 4Runner with an in-window antenna. I am hopeful this will help, but skeptical that it will be effective. Any opinions??

[1loudls]

in glass antenna's suck, they suck even harder with aftermarket radios, regular am and fm reception usually is worse than the built in tuner, so i would reccomend a antenna splitter (i think pioneer is a bunch of f-tards for not including it with the HD add on, i guess all the people with 900's or 90's are gonna say who cares about MSN direct) with a lot of inglass antennas, they need an amp. the amp is usually either in the car near the antenna (you just need to power up a "power antenna" wire to activate it) or it is in the factory radio (in this case you will need to add one)

 

i doubt there is anything wrong with your antenna (other than the design being in the glass )

[billz260]

I have the exact same issue with my 900BT and 2003 4runner. MSN Direct was almost useless unless I was in the middle of town for extended periods of time.

 

Radio stations are decent with HD tuner but 20 miles outside of town, i get alot of Digital to Analog switching.

 

Just wondering if the booster helped.