 |
 | Home | Contact Us | FAQ | Search & Site Map | Link to Us |
 | Sign In | Join | Other 45 Sites in Network |
Car Forum / Toyota / Prius / September 2004Radio Quality
I just got a 2004 Prius Package 7. The radio reception is terrible! Has anyone else had this problem? Jim > I just got a 2004 Prius Package 7. The radio reception is terrible! > Has anyone else had this problem? Jim I assume that the dealer remembered to install the antenna before delivering it to you? Yes - I screwed in the attenna a bit but found out the real culprit was the scanner. It lands on frequencies it THINKS is the best. In my case, I wanted 90.5FM. The scanner landed on 90.3FM and I ASSUMED that was correct. Then I proceeded to blame the reception. I manually tuned to 90.5FM (PBS Classical in Tucson) and the signal was clear as a bell! Thanks for your response and beautiful name. Jim > > I just got a 2004 Prius Package 7. The radio reception is terrible! > > Has anyone else had this problem? Jim > > I assume that the dealer remembered to install the antenna before > delivering it to you? > Yes - I screwed in the attenna a bit but found out the real culprit was the scanner. > It lands on frequencies it THINKS is the best. In my case, I wanted 90.5FM. The [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > I assume that the dealer remembered to install the antenna before > > delivering it to you? Hmmm. Sounds like AFC is a little too tight. Does it do this at higher frequencies or just the low ones? If it does this at high frequencies too you might want to mention this to the dealer. You didn't put in an after-market Sirius/XM satelite radio did you? Yes they have those for Prius (www.coastaletech.com/xm_radio_in_prius.htm) but the internal antennae connection might have come loose. D: I scanned, then manually tuned and preset all 6 spots with our favorite programs so scanning will not be a problem in the future as the Tucson market is pretty small...but I'm 70 and have enough problems elsewhere to worry about loose connections other than the one in my defibrillator. The radio is performing admirably. Thanks for your considerate reply. Jim > > Yes - I screwed in the attenna a bit but found out the real culprit was the scanner. > > It lands on frequencies it THINKS is the best. In my case, I wanted 90.5FM. The [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > they have those for Prius (www.coastaletech.com/xm_radio_in_prius.htm) > but the internal antennae connection might have come loose. > D: I scanned, then manually tuned and preset all 6 spots with our favorite programs so > scanning will not be a problem in the future as the Tucson market is pretty small...but > I'm 70 and have enough problems elsewhere to worry about loose connections other than the > one in my defibrillator. Defibrillator? You sure you don't mean pacemaker? Only paramedics are allowed to use defibrillators! ;-) BRRRZAP!! > The radio is performing admirably. Thanks for your considerate reply. Jim [snip] There is a device called an AICD (automated internal cardiac defibrillator) that performs the same function as a paramedic's external defibrillator. Since it's internal, it uses much lower energy level (10-25 watts/second) versus 200-360 watts/second. Certain devices, like microwave ovens, radar guns, and theft detectors/metal detectors are notorious for disturbing the normal operation of AICD's and Pacemakers. Kevin "Watson A.Name - "Watt Sun, the Dark Remover"" <NOSPAM@dslextreme.com> wrote >> D: I scanned, then manually tuned and preset all 6 spots with our > favorite programs so [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] >> > [snip] I have had a Medtronic defibrillator ICD since 1996. Watson A.Name - "Watt Sun, the Dark Remover" wrote: >>D: I scanned, then manually tuned and preset all 6 spots with our > [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > [snip] > I just got a 2004 Prius Package 7. The radio reception is terrible! > Has anyone else had this problem? Jim I find the reception in the package 9 to be outstanding. FM sensitivity is excellent, and AM sensitivity and selectivity is incredible. There is a local AM tower next to the freeway here in Santa Barbara that carries three local stations at 1290, 1340, and 1490. I can drive the freeway past the tower and listen to 1450 in Ventura about 30 miles away without a hint of interference. Every other car I've driven has failed miserably in this respect, with intermodulation and overload for about half a mile. I have had some issues with the CD changer occasionally giving a "Check" message on some disks. Selecting a different disk and coming back to the failedone seems to fix it. I'm going to try swapping the disks around to see if it is the disk or the slot. I use the random across all disks setting which exercises the changer mechanism a lot more than listening to a single disk at a time. > > I just got a 2004 Prius Package 7. The radio reception is terrible! > > Has anyone else had this problem? Jim [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > hint of interference. Every other car I've driven has failed miserably in > this respect, with intermodulation and overload for about half a mile. I've never heard of one tower supporting multiple AM stations, because the tower is the actual antenna; for more than one station, it means they would have to have some kind of isolation between the two transmitters to keep them from each other. This leads me to beliwve that maybe you're not really receiving that many stations on that tower. Maybe you're getting interference from more than one station at that location by intermodulation, where the station is acting like a local oscillator in your radio, and causing it to receive two at the same time. > I have had some issues with the CD changer occasionally giving a "Check" > message on some disks. Selecting a different disk and coming back to the > failedone seems to fix it. I'm going to try swapping the disks around to > see if it is the disk or the slot. I use the random across all disks > setting which exercises the changer mechanism a lot more than listening to > a single disk at a time. On Wed, 08 Sep 2004 03:35:59 -0700, Watson A.Name - "Watt Sun, the Dark Remover" wrote: >> > I just got a 2004 Prius Package 7. The radio reception is terrible! >> > Has anyone else had this problem? Jim [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > oscillator in your radio, and causing it to receive two at the same > time. It is quite common. Typically separate transmitters and a matching circuit called a diplexer. Another technique is a singler broadband power amplifier being driven by separate exciters for the different frequencies. The matching circuits are somewhat complex as the antenna itself will be off-resonance for at least some if not all of the frequencies in use. http://beradio.com/departments/radio_diplexing_am_transmitters/ http://www.crawfordbroadcasting.com/~cbc/Eng_Files/Practical%20Diplexing.pdf |
Reply to this Message |
 Sign In
 Join
 My Latest Posts My Monitored Threads My Blog My Photo Gallery My Profile My Homepage Start New Thread Enable EMail Alerts Rate this Thread
|
©2008 Advenet LLC Privacy Policy - Terms of Use
This website includes both content owned or controlled by Advenet as well as content owned or controlled by third parties.