reception

chili · Post by **chili** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 4:16 pm

v reg 406 original long aerial on the roof.

how do all you 406 owners rate the reception of the original equipment ? i find that my radio (which i have replaced) is not very good a picking up local stations etc.
Can you get different quality aerials that are better than others at picking up signals etc ?

mjb · Post by **mjb** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 8:58 am

My standard aerial works fine. Somewhere on the interweb is a site that shows you where the coverage for the BBC Manchester transmitter is, and my aerial seems to follow that perfectly. Very literally. The page traces the coverage border around the A500 and about half way down the M6/A500 slip road is where the signal dies, so I'm happy with it

Can't say much about the original head unit though, I only used it for the trip home from buying the car. Reception on it seemed ok though

niz406 · Post by **niz406** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 9:59 am

The stock antenna is only a passive one??, hence why its sooo long !

You could replace it with an active (electric) antenna like an amplified b-sting type.... or even a shark fin one.

chili · Post by **chili** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 10:44 am

Niz406 wrote:The stock antenna is only a passive one??, hence why its sooo long !

You could replace it with an active (electric) antenna like an amplified b-sting type.... or even a shark fin one.

got a link for any niz ?

i take it this type of antenna will require a power supply, but what would be the easiest way of fitting a new aeriall lead from radio to roof ?

mbell666 · Post by **mbell666** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 1:50 pm

My rating - Its pretty rubish!

I think it probably the worse recpetion of any car/radio i've used recently. It only seams to like the Nation BBC radio satations and Classic FM (Its favorite, but not mine!). Girl fileds 1984 polo with ariel not extended (i.e. still sat in wing) picks up a lot better than my car

, i blame my pioneer MP3 headunit.

Captain Jack · Post by **Captain Jack** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 11:26 pm

Hm only had the original radio in for about 2 days and then replaced with an aftermarket one. But the aerial is fine for what it is. Both, the old Sony HU and the current sweet yummy Alpine one, pick up radio stations with ease.

chili · Post by **chili** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 12:43 am

my reception tends to distort and fade.
there is an amplifier in the roof of the car that the aerial coax is joined to, may get the old tin foil out to make a better connection see what happens

mjb · Post by **mjb** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 2:45 pm

Hey don't knock the standard aerial! Mine's had a bonnet smack it at 70mph and still works fine ;)

1949mick · Post by **1949mick** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 12:15 pm

Hi All,
I,ve just sorted an reception problem with the Radio CD player in my 2003 406 Estate. (No AM function. every thing else fine). My local Main dealer said the unit was faulty. To save (plenty) I sent it myself to Clarion in Swindon. They could find nothing wrong. I checked out the Ariel plug on the end of the lead. I found it was not making on the middle pin properly.
I checked this out by inserting a length of wire into the middle pin Ariel socket on the radio. Tuned to AM. Hey Presto instant reception on AM I slightly flatened the middle pin in the ariel lead plug and now all is fine.
FM reception is better to. Hope this helps.
Mick

Post by **Welly** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 1:19 pm

I didn't know there was anything to listen to on AM ?

Captain Jack · Post by **Captain Jack** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 9:30 am

Classic 1260 (in Bristol) and Virgin 1215

MaDc0w · Post by **MaDc0w** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 11:22 am

I junked the radio and antenna like 2 years ago

My CarPC and D-Link antenna wh00p ass

chili · Post by **chili** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 3:01 pm

worth a try

thanks

1949mick · Post by **1949mick** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 3:45 pm

Hi all. Just found another problem with my radio reception. The reception started to get worse again after I,d tried the other fixes. Have just finised tracing the Ariel through and found that water had got into the ariel base on the roof of the car. This has coroded the printed ciciruit board that lives there. This board I believe is an signal booster. It is in such a bad state that some of the components on it have dropped of. So it's another trip to Peugeot!!!

chili · Post by **chili** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 9:38 pm

1949mick wrote:Hi all. Just found another problem with my radio reception. The reception started to get worse again after I,d tried the other fixes. Have just finised tracing the Ariel through and found that water had got into the ariel base on the roof of the car. This has coroded the printed ciciruit board that lives there. This board I believe is an signal booster. It is in such a bad state that some of the components on it have dropped of. So it's another trip to Peugeot!!!

the bit in question is a signal amplifier buddy and cost £6 from main dealer, replaced mine and it did'nt make any difference at all, am gonna buy a cheap amplified windscreen type off ebay and see what that does b4 i start ripping the old one out

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