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I recently put a hifonics BX1500D that I had laying around in my girlfriends 06 GG. Everything turned out fine until I tried listening to the radio.... Almost all the stations I regularly listen to no longer come in. Any suggestions on how to fix this problem?
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If only it were that easy. Never removed factory radio, so not the problem. Any other suggestions?
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I know it's not a matter of the antenna coming loose. When I unplug the remote wire to turn off the amp my reception comes back to normal, but the moment I return power to the amp, the reception is lost immediately. I've never encountered this problem with any other installs, so it's kinda buggin' me. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
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does your amplifier power or ground wire run close to the antenna cable???
i DO NOT believe this applies to that amp, but some newer digital amp interfere with AM reception...like JL's new HD series amps and Kenwoods Excelon Reference XR_S series. Maybe even alpine's PDX, but not sure on that one.but the JL's for sure
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I tried running the power wire on the outside of the car just to see if that would help. Didn't make any noticeable difference. I removed the amp from the box and moved it around and that seemed to sereiously interfere with the reception. Just wondering if that amp is creating some sort of a field thats messing with the reception. It's kind of a pain cuz she uses her ipod with an fm transmitter and obviously that's not working too well with the radio interference.
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is the radio reception only affected when using the fm transmitter? or just listening to regular registered broadcast fm radio stations?
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It affects the regular broadcasting stations as well. I can have a station coming in perfectly then as soon as I power up the amp, bam, reception totally gone.
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Not sure what brand it is. I bought it at a local best buy. I tried putting a ground loop isolator on it and that didn't make a difference either.
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