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Thanks.  Do you think I could get to this from underneath without 
taking the radio out of the dash?

On Thursday, December 11, 2003, at 09:10 AM, Christopher Middlebrook 
wrote:

>
> On most cars of this vintage there is an antenna trimmer that is 
> located somewhere on the radio near the antenna connector.  This is a 
> capacitive device that nulls the insertion loss of the antenna.  Look 
> for a hole with a small screw head looking adjustment.  Set your 
> radio's FM dial somewhere in the mid band
> 96-98-101 MHz and tune to a station in that range.  Adjust the trimmer 
> until you hear minimum crosstalk.
> This shouldn't affect the AM scale since it is tuned to a different 
> wavelength of the antenna, and is a different modulation scheme.
>
>
>
>  --- On Wed 12/10, Mark McDonald < tomswift@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > wrote:
> From: Mark McDonald [mailto: tomswift@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 18:37:53 -0600
> Subject: IML: radio reception problem
>
> Folks,<br><br>I was driving my '68 Crown today (the 4 dr. hdtp) and I 
> noticed that I <br>have perfect reception on the AM side, but when I 
> go to FM I cannot <br>seem to receive only 1 station at a time.  I 
> hear several stations all <br>at once, with 1 or 2 stations all across 
> the dial.  Anyone have any <br>ideas what's wrong?<br><br>I recently 
> (3,4 months ago) replaced the antenna on this car.<br><br>Thsanks, 
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