I've had my z1 installed for a week now, and one thing I've noticed is that It gets horrible reception. At first I thought it was because something wasn't hooked up so after looking at it I realized it wasn't hooked up to my stock antenna. This improved the reception, however it is nothing near what I had with my stock headunit.

Has anyone else had this problem? Is there anyway to correct it?

what vehicle?

You know,

I have read about this problem before in previous posts and as I recall, one person used an antenna amplifier and it resolved his problem quite well.

I gotta tell you, the FM reception on my Z1 is FANTASTIC. I mean, I can hardly change one digit of the tuning without getting a station in. I don't even have enough memory slots to save all of the channels that come in clearly. I was amazed at how much better my FM reception was with the Z1 over my stock radio.

I guess I'm just one of the lucky ones.

well the kind of vehicle would be most helpful, only because if the actual ant. lead was omitted from the original install, it is possible that the factory ant. amplifier was not connected as well.. not to mention other factors such as tricky ant connections and installer insights that may have gone overlooked. but anyways, let us know with what vehicle or put in an amplifier, your options are to either do it right possibly, or spend money doing it another way. up to you.

sorry... its for an 05 altima se-r

sorry... its for an 05 altima se-r

Then it does sounds like antenna amplifier power-on wire was not connected. I had same exact problem in my 2003 Maxima until I checked its wiring diagram and connected that wire. (There is a power antenna wire in Z1's harness that could be used for that purpose)

That is correct, there is a wire for this. If I'm not mistaken, there is also a setting in the AVIC-Z1 to turn the power antenna feature on and off.

That is correct, there is a wire for this. If I'm not mistaken, there is also a setting in the AVIC-Z1 to turn the power antenna feature on and off.

You, in fact, are mistaken. The feature allows you to have the AVIC send power to the antenna all the time, or only when the radio is on (i.e. turn off during CD/DVD playback, satellite radio, etc...) You can't actually turn it off.

maybe it would be better to get that far first, so make sure the remote/radio turn on lead is connected. then you can go into the settings and configure it afterwards

My mistake, I guess that I never really learned what that feature was for because I saw no need to use it. I saw it when I was briskly browsing through my Z1 features the other night. Thank you for quicky correctng me. We don't want bad infrmation on here. Especially if its critical in nature.

The lead is in. Its a blue wire which was connected and it did improve reception, however I'm still not getting the same reception I used to with my BOSE unit.

Im positive because I live in a valley and all our other cars can pick up radio stations, but when I try to tune them in with the z1 they are fuzzy and fade in adn out. I used to be able to hear them.

did you check the actual ant. lead itself, NOT THE BLUE wire?

its still not working, any other advice?

bump, still having the problem.

TRy hooking the blue wire in the altima harness to the red wire in the altima harness. Leave the blue wire of the z disconnected. Also where did you ground the avic. Last question, is your rear window tinted?

i was going to ask the same thing./

I have a 95 Mitsubishi 3000GTVR4 with AVIC Z1. We removed the factory antena, and covered and painted over the whole. We have tried window mount type antena's and get lousy reception, and no AM reception. We also installed HID headlights in this car. When we turn the headlights on, we get static, and the already terrible reception gets worse. So my question is

A) what antena would you recommend, remember we no longer have the factory hole or antena.

what could me causing the interference with the HID's.

HID's do not affect any other source, I.E. ipod, cd, dvd when turned on.

Thanks in advance for you help.

Dre

The hid is affecting the reception because of the large amount of emi the ballasts give off. The hood the for the car still steel or is it fiberglass/carbon fiber? If it's steel, you can run a ground strap from the hood to the body. That should help with the interference from the hid. As far as a replacement antenna goes, can't really help there. I've never had much luck with them.

The hood is still steel. When you say a grounding strap, what do you mean? and where can I get one.

Thanks for the info, i'll keep you posted on how things turn out.

Now I still need to figure out my reception issue.

A ground strap is just a wire basically...usually use braided cable...I have used a peice of RG-8 Coax and stripped off the outer plastic sheath and pulled the center conductor/dialectric out of it then just used the braided sheild with some lugs soldered on the end of it....

sorry... its for an 05 altima se-r

 

 

Then it does sounds like antenna amplifier power-on wire was not connected. I had same exact problem in my 2003 Maxima until I checked its wiring diagram and connected that wire. (There is a power antenna wire in Z1's harness that could be used for that purpose)

I`m having the same kind of radio receiption problems on a 2006 lincoln nav can anyone please tell me what color wire I should connect the antenna amplifier power-on wire to.--The antenna cable is firmly connected in the Z1

thanks

Maybe i'm and idiot but 90% of the time dont you lose radio reception with an aftermartket radio, not sure why but ive heard far fetched roomers like its how factory radio's are designed with narrow bandwidth, because we all know factory radio's dont have the freq responds an aftermarket one does.......

Some factory radios actually do have an better fm section than aftermarket radios. Then you have the fact that quite a few use a seperate tuner for am and fm reception, where an aftermarket generally uses a single turner to do both. Don't even get me started on vehicles with diversity antennas...

Another problem you might be having is the local is on and set to a low number. Go into your settings and find the local for the stations. I do not know where it is for the Z series. I know for the D2 you push in the knob and i think its under audio. Just turn it off and that will dramatically help the reception. Because what local does is find the strength of the stations and if it is not one of the strongest channels it will overlook it and go for best. For use while on trips to decrease channel switches due to range.

I took it to best buy and the guy tried pulling in a few stations and said that it was normal. He said that sometimes they just get poor reception.

Anyone know of a good antenna amplifier that I could try?