DaveM wrote:
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Since my last post, I have tried a number of things to try to isolate
the issue. I connected a new (non-electric) antenna, and grounded it
directly to the battery. I had the radio on w/lots of static and pulled
each fuse (including fuel pump) one by one. I had a jumper cable on the
battery ground and conected it to the alternator, engine computer,
sound amp and radio ground itself.

None of these made any improvement.

I'll try grounding the fuel pump as I could not easily locate it
yesterday.

As to other questions posted here...nothing else in the vehicle seems
to correlate with less or more static. But it is worse sometimes than
others. Which may be a result of the weather or other conditions making
for a better or worse ground connection somewhere.

I'll keep tyring!


The extreme noise problem significantly points to a broken ground connection
in the antenna circuit somewhere. The broken ground may be inside the
radio. You might open the radio case and closely inspect the antenna
circuit connections. You might find the shield connection broken where the
antenna connector or the coax cable from the antenna connector makes the
connection to the radio's PCB.

As an alternative, park a car with a normally operating radio close to your
car. Shut the other car off and start your car. Do you hear the noise in
the other car's radio? If so, the problem is probably in your car's high
voltage ignition circuit. Check the ignition coil, distributor, the spark
plug wires and the plugs.

Cheers!!

--
Dave M
MasonDG44 at comcast dot net (Just subsitute the appropriate characters in
the address)

Never take a laxative and a sleeping pill at the same time!!

Another poster and I suggested sniffing around using a small AM
battery-operated transistor radio. The OP doesn't say if he has tried
that or not.

H. R.(Bob) Hofmann