hey everyone i got a alpine 9885 bought about 8 months ago and i get a lot of static with this deck. i brought it to alpine and they changed the main board and it was a lil better but i am still getting a lot of static when i listen to radio stations. i donno if its somethin with my car (00 sunfire) or if its something with my alpine. if i put my stock deck back the radio stations are good.

any sugustions 2 what i should do ?

 

it's the factory radio. Gm factory radio's are freakishly good when it comes to radio reception. I haven't seen an aftermarket HU that can match them. Then again you probably didn't buy and aftermarket HU for the radio did you? The aftermarket don't put money into AM/FM tuners, they put it into pre outs and internall amplifiers and 24 bit DAC converters for your cd's so you can listen to them as they where intended. It's worth the loss of radio reception in my opinion.

 

It might depend on the car. My car has a hidden RF amp on the antenna. And when i installed my aftermarket deck, radio sucked!
I bought an HD radio tuner, then i found out the interface didn't supply enough juice for the RF amp. It's under/above the roof panel for the rear window antenna. I gave it power from the HD tuner and now all is good!!

 

same problem in my 02 grand prix.. my alpine hu sucks for fm reception compared to the stock unit.. antenna is printed on the rear windshield