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PawnSacrifice

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 South Oxfordshire
Selling my recently acquired, much ballyhooed, stubby! Mangowalk, naturally.

Selling due to abject disappointment... reduced a perfectly good car stereo to a crackling WWI field radio. Perfect for someone who lives somewhere else or who doesn't really listen to the radio!

£5 seem fair?

Will do this on a try before you buy basis... if it doesn't work in your area you must repost on the forum, arrange the sale and send on to the next person... whoever decides to keep it pays me... a sort of crap pyramid stubby scheme!
 
Sure it's just the area I live in, and I mostly just use the radio on the way to work. So that's no good. Oddly, AM seemed to be improved!
 
PawnSacrifice said:
Sure it's just the area I live in, and I mostly just use the radio on the way to work. So that's no good. Oddly, AM seemed to be improved!
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This may sound silly, but when I changed my aerial, it went fuzzy too. All I had to do was re-tune everything!

Radio one was on 98.8 with the long aerial and sounded fine, but had to change to 99.1 to have it clear again with the stubby.

I'm sure you've tried this, but thought I'd check :P
 
Yeah, thanks mate... went through all of the frequencies, kept scrolling and it hardly picked up anything... when it did, the signal wasn't good enough even for RDS. To be fair, even with the standard RC job the reception isn't perfect, but it works!

So, no stubby for me... guess I'll just have to come to terms with being half a member :(
 
my reception got better :-/

(but there was obviously an issue with my OEM aerial)
 
PawnSacrifice said:
... if it doesn't work in your area you must repost on the forum, arrange the sale and send on to the next person... whoever decides to keep it pays me...
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...All together now.. "PASSSS THE STUBBY ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE... PASSSS THE STUBBY ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE"
 
I cheated and used a Mazda CX7 aerial which is an elongated stubby. Might be worth trying something inbetween stock and stubby as my signal didn't change at all in areas that struggle for reception?
 
Tired said:
PawnSacrifice said:
Radio one was on 98.8 with the long aerial and sounded fine, but had to change to 99.1 to have it clear again with the stubby.

I'm sure you've tried this, but thought I'd check :P
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But thats where its always been in the Oxford area? Did you have a coat hanger in there before then? LMAO :rofl:

Seriously this SO confirms my ambivalence about these things.....if I put one of these on the Zed 50% of my weekly commute to West Wales would be in silence. And just to prove the point I stuck the OEM beemer aerial on to my Honda and Nissan (same thread on both cars) and the number of stations picked up shot through the roof! Its clearly a very good aerial...so youz can keep yer handbag dildos. :D
 
daveg said:
I cheated and used a Mazda CX7 aerial which is an elongated stubby. Might be worth trying something inbetween stock and stubby as my signal didn't change at all in areas that struggle for reception?
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Thanks Dave, but to be honest I'm not actually bothered by the OEM RC one, just got swept up in the moment! The stubby was a cheap option so I thought I'd give it a try.
 
sp3ctre said:
PawnSacrifice said:
... if it doesn't work in your area you must repost on the forum, arrange the sale and send on to the next person... whoever decides to keep it pays me...
Click to expand...

...All together now.. "PASSSS THE STUBBY ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE... PASSSS THE STUBBY ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE"
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:rofl:
 
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