I was wondering if anybody has any experience with a certain brand that actually works? My car needs some serious help I have the factory booster hooked up for the window antenna and I tried playing with the fuba antenna I got from Rennbay without drilling a hole for it yet. I checked Cruthfield and they have one but I wonder how well it actually works <a href="http://www.crutchfield.com/cgi-bin/S-FvDJtMq3XjU/ProdGroup.asp?c=2&s=0&cc=01&g=732" target="_blank">http://www.crutchfield.com/cgi-bin/S-FvDJtMq3XjU/ProdGroup.asp?c=2&s=0&cc=01&g=732</a>

 

Are you sure the original booster is bad? Is power hooked up?

 

There are many different applications you can use, i have checked out alot of them. my reception is such, that when i put the radio on tune, and not scan, i can pick up almost all of my local stations, with little or no static, so my idea is to go with one out of the JC Whitney catalog, it looks like it plugs into the antenna jack, and is fairly small, not sure if it works quite as well as some of the extreamly large boosters, but i want somthign small.....thats my 2 cents

 

My original booster shows signs that it does work a little. When I don't have it connected I just hear static on some stations then when I wire it in I can hear the station but with to much static also.

 

were is it located. i dont think mine is hooked up? i dont get any stations unless im like a foot away from theyre tower

 

My stereo has a signal strength indicator (0 - 10 bars). I installed the antenna booster from Crutchfield and noticed a consitent 20+% signal increase. Then last month when I pulled my stereo out to re-wire parts of it, I noticed that the wire to power the factory booster was not connected... so I might be ditching the aftermarket one if the factory one works.

The booster is under the dash on the passenger side. The power lead for it is in the radio area. I thing there is an LED on the booster to indicate when its turned on, but I may be wrong on that.

 

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">Originally posted by Cass944:
<strong>were is it located. i dont think mine is hooked up? i dont get any stations unless im like a foot away from theyre tower</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">To elaborate on what rcl said there is a small wire that is run along with the antenna wire that should be hooked up to a power source that is only on when the car is on.

 

I think its better if its on only when the radio is on (power antenna wire).

 

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">Originally posted by led:
<strong>I think its better if its on only when the radio is on (power antenna wire).</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">My only concerne with that is some radios have a weak signal on that line. I have seen an Eclipse unit that could not turn on three amps. I don't know what that unit draws it might not be a concerne for most people.

 

IIRC it only needs 12V