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I have a 2005 ram 1500, and a few stations around town do not come in clearly on my truck, but they come in perfectly fine on my buddies 2007 1500.

I have a Kenwood single din head unit, the adapter for the head unit.

Please help. Some stations come in perfect where others suck horribly.
 
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And yes i have plugged everything up securely, and made sure the contact between my antenna and the truck is very very clean
 
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Make sure all the blue wires on the harness you bought are connected to the blue/white wire on the radio harness. The antenna may be amplified and need power which will be one of the blue wires.
 
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Was reception good before the radio swap? Maybe the antenna you have just sucks.
 
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NYCruiser said:
Was reception good before the radio swap? Maybe the antenna you have just sucks.
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Yeah it was bad before also.. Is there anything that would cause this problem? How hard is it to replace the antenna and assembly?
 
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I think its easy. Hardest part will be snaking the wire.
 
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On my 08 there is a antenna connection right behind the passenger side kick panel, near some other harnesses. Pull this off and check it, maybe it got loose or unplugged.
 
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If you have one of those stubby antennas, that would be your problem, they are crap.
 
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I know my Diablo tuner screws up my reception real bad when its plugged in.
 
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Are you running any class d amplifiers? Some, typically more compact amps are known to cause interference due to the switching circuitry they use, a modern example would be the kicker dx 1000.1
 
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