Cant pickup radio 1 on sony cdx-s2210

not sure if this is the correct forum but... i just fitted a sony
cdx-s2210 in my girlfirends 306 all works fine except i cant pick up radio
1. in my area radio 1 lives around 98.2 i can manualy tune it to 98.1 or
98.3 but not 98.2. it happly picks up all the other local and national
staions ok. any one have any ideas what i can do to fix this or a way to
boost the signal?

cheers

stephen

 

Try a different Radio frequency - it goes all the way from 97.7 - 99.7 FM.

Good luck

Andy

 

Mind you it's no great loss. Tune into Radio 4 and bust the knob off..

 

Malc wrote:
-----snip------------

Is that after you have turned the volume down to zero??



Regards,
John

 

i just fitted a sony cdx-s2210 in my girlfirends 306 all works fine except
i cant pick up radio
1. in my area

We're all old here. What's Radio 1?
DaveK.

 

Radio one thats a old station?

 

fitted same radio to a megane yesterday and it sorted radio one no probs
shame it didnt fit into dash very well but never mind that
did the original radio work ok in this respect in your area?
cos if it was ok then the tuner is probably just,well crap really!!!
however with radio stations its sometimes just where you are rather than
what you have
so drive it else where if you think this is the case and retest
if its any consalation at all
i live 4 miles from the radio aire transmitter in Leeds
and despite their latest adverts that they have doubled their transmitter
power
reception disappears at random as i drive to work (nearer to transmitter)

 

the old tape deck worked fine. so im guessing unless i did something realy
stupid with the install this new radio has crappy reception. is there
anyway i can get a signal bosster or anything?

 

have you checked the areial connection at the back?
also make sure the aerial base is secure and the connection to it
it may be just a coincidence
if that fails try the radio in another car to confirm the fault and then
take it back

 

It's like the Light Programme but they feature popular beat combos...

 

Just a thought. Maybe lack of signal strength is not the problem, but too
much. Perhaps the input stages of the radio are being swamped. Does radio
1 work fine if you move further from the transmitter? Can you receive
stations at frequencies close to radio 1?

Ideally you could try fitting an attenuator in between the antenna and
radio, but I suspect you have not got one handy. I'm not sure what your
car uses for an antenna. If you can make it cut out reliably somewhere
unscrew the antenna and put in a shorter bit of wire temporary to make one
with less gain (i.e. gets less signal strength) and see if that does
anything.

IIRC some car radios had two differing signal strength settings, one marked
'DX' on one of my parents old cars. If the radio in question has these
modes have a play and see if there is a difference.

Pete

 

Whereabouts do you live ? it might be 98.2 is subject to a powerful
local oscillator image from another station.