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I have a 1997 Honda Civic LX. I have installed a Sony CDX-MP40 headunit. I get absolutly terrible radio reception. I have replaced my plug with lower EMI plugs and I am trying to figure out if replacing my antenna will help. I saw this was listed as a known problem in alldata.com. Has anyone solved this? Any suggestions? thanks!

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"Bubba" <b74ubba@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I have a 1997 Honda Civic LX. I have installed a Sony CDX-MP40 headunit. I
> get absolutly terrible radio reception. I have replaced my plug with lower
> EMI plugs and I am trying to figure out if replacing my antenna will help. I
> saw this was listed as a known problem in alldata.com. Has anyone solved
> this? Any suggestions? thanks!
>

It might just be a crapy tuner. I went through a few radios before I
found one that was any good. The worst was a Pioneer SuperTuner III,
which completely garbled FM stations with even a little bit of multipath
distortion. The best so far is a Blaupunkt DigiCeiver. The difference
between the two is loud garbled distorion versus clean reception that
sputters every once in a while.