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Re: radio question

To: The Warped Goat <dedwards@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Subject: Re: radio question
From: "W. Ray Gibbons" <gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu>
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 1995 11:47:20 -0400 (EDT)
On Thu, 20 Apr 1995, The Warped Goat wrote:

> Hi all,
>      I have a question about the radio antenna on my '68 MGB.  It's a 
> side-mount antenna that I recently re-attached, its having spent several 
>years 
> away from the car.  I reconnected the coaxial cable to the antenna, and now I 
> get AM channels fine, but FM is non-functional.  Any ideas?  I thought the 
> outer casing of the coaxial wire was the ground, but maybe it's for FM while 
> the inner wire is for AM?
> 
> Benjy Edwards.

My guess is that you don't have contact between the inner wire and the 
antenna, so that the antenna isn't connected at all.  Try disconnecting 
the coax from the bottom of the antenna completely; I suspect the 
reception won't change.

   Ray Gibbons  Dept. of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
                Univ. of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
                gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu  (802) 656-8910


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