Antenna balls are purely decorative items. However, they can be branded to serve as advertising, and some people ensure their antenna ball is distinctive to make it easier to find their car in a large parking lot.
One can find a variety of car antenna toppers online when one goes to the websites of Cool Balls, Antenna Ball Store, etc. One can also purchase the item at the sites of Amazon and eBay.
HD car radios are no different than regular radios, other than their more complex decoding hardware.
A transmit antenna sends radio energy from an electronic circuit into space. A receive antenna captures radio energy from space and connects it to an electronic circuit. Most people own several antennas, for example in transistor radios, mobile phones, keyfobs for locking the car, television satellite dishes or antennas on chimneys.
No. Radios are usually different from one car to the next.
Among the most established manufacturers of audiophile car radios are Sony, Alpine, Kenwood and Pioneer. Car radios are either installed by the vehicle manufacturers or by car owners as part of after-market upgrades.
The options for car radio antennas include internal car antennas, external car antennas, power antennas, and satellite antennas. The internal antenna is the least effective and most cars come with either the external fixed antenna or the power antenna unless their is a satellite radio in the car and then it is a satellite antenna.
Better reception there.
A car antenna booster is used to 'boost' the radio waves of the car's antenna. This is usually used to improve radio quality and reduce static that might be heard.
Your antenna lead-in is broken, and the radio isn't getting any signal. That's why it keeps scanning and can't hear anything. Check the connection from the antenna to the cable, and if that's OK, then you'll have to replace the cable from the antenna to the radio. You did connect the antenna to it when you were checking it in the first car, right ? You can quickly test this hypothesis: With a radio in the first car, where no radio works, connect the power, but don't connect the car's antenna to it. Instead, stick the end of a different piece of wire ( 3 to 6 ft long) into the center hole of the antenna connector on the radio, and see if that makes it possible for the radio to start hearing things.
his hobby when he was younger was fixing car radios, and other radios.
Sure you can. Just wrap it around your car's antenna.
In most cases it boils down to the antenna. Most home radios have a a built-in coiled antenna.Other reasons are "gain" issues. this is a slightly more complicated issue, but in short, a car radio is designed to adjust it's "gain" based on the signal strength of a moving source.Home radios are not designed to do this because, well your house doesn't move. However, some older model radios did come with a manual gain control.Long story short, your car radio is more sensitive