Dual Electronics MAW40 Universal Soft Wire Flexible Long Range Marine Antenna AM/FM Radio Antenna Black

This antenna worked great! Some of the bad reviews are likely due to poor placement or isolation. When I first connected it, I was getting tons of static but the station would still come in strong. It took me a few different orientations before I got this right, but once I found its sweet spot, every station comes in crystal clear. I've worked in electronics for a very long time, and if there's one thing that's certain, it's that antennas are the most finicky devices in the world. Sitting in the wrong place in the room can make your FM turn into complete static if you turn your head the wrong direction, which is why movies and TV shows always depict people doing funny contortionist moves to retain clear broadcast signal while a coat hanger is sticking out of the tuner. The same applies today.If at first you don't succeed, try moving the antenna again. Remember too, that the shape and angles of it also affect reception. Oddly enough, I purchased this to be an internal antenna in my SUV and the best place for reception was shoved vertically down the inside of my C-pillar. As mentioned before, sometimes there is no rhyme or reason to it, but just place it where it works best, and this is true of ANY antenna.

I bought a 1996 Toyota Tacoma recently. The kid who owned it did not like the radio mast antenna, so he used body filler to fill in the hole. So, naturally, the radio had terrible reception. Wanting to avoid drilling out the hole, etc. I ordered this. At first, I could only get a few stations and was dissatisfied. But buy moving the wire around under my dash, I found it worked as well as a mast antenna; at least for our local FM stations. What was strange is I only had to move the extended wire a few inches for optimal reception.As a test, I hooked up a FM "T" shaped antenna to the end of the antenna wire I bought. No improvement in reception. So this device alone does a fine job.

I used this "pig tail" style, passive antenna with an Infinity head unit mounted in a fairing on my motorcycle. I experimented with antenna lay-out while using the auto-tune feature of my head unit to determine best placement and path inside my fairing. Note: Do NOT let the antenna flop around loose or leave it coiled up. To get best reception you will need to unravel it and experiment with placement.Once I found an acceptable lay-out I taped it down in place. I have not tried powered antennas so I can't compare. But I get pretty good reception from my head unit on my motorcycle with this passive (and super cheap) antenna.

This antenna does the job fairly well. Although its stated to be a dipole antenna, I don't think that is accurate. A true dipole would probably offer lightly better reception, but this antenna was exactly what I was looking for and does an adequate job of signal reception. It has no problems bringing in the stations I listen to, and I live about 20 miles outside the city where most of the station transmitters reside.One caveat, and I almost gave this antenna a 1 star rating before stumbling onto this by accident before writing my review:When my phone is plugged into the USB port to charge, signal reception gets COMPLETELY wiped out. I am lucky if I can get ONE station reliably. This could have more to do with my phone or my radio than this actual antenna. Obviously one of them causes enough interference in the charge circuitry to wipe out radio reception. Unplug the phone, and reception is fine.Hope this helps somebody!My phone is an iPhone SE (the older one), and my radio is a Sony DSX-M80.

It works, but I am not convinced that it works well for my application -- on a boat located in the mountains and about 30 miles from the transmitters. Easy to install, best when you HAVE to hide the antenna and can't drill holes.Revised after using the boat. This works only if you boat near (less than 10 miles over flat terrain) the radio stations you listen to. It is simply not long enough.

The antenna worked well on my boat. Every station came in loud and clear.

After reading a review that stated this got a great signal without even mounting the antenna, I decided to give this a shot for my trailer remodel. I had pulled the old antennas off the roof and sealed it all up, so I really didn't want to go poking new holes. I gutted the original defunct dvd/am/fm system and gained a little more cabinet space by using a short single din radio instead. I simply plugged this antenna in and coiled it behind the stereo toward the exterior wall. The reception is great, as good or better than my car antenna.

I changed out stereos in my boat and the antenna connection came off inside the old radio. I found this and assumed it would be easier and cheaper to do this than get a new connector and crimping tool. I read a few negative comments on this and I was concerned it would be another piece of crap but at $4 I thought I had nothing to lose. Before I installed the new radio I could only pick up one good station (probably a bad connection to begin with). After the new radio, nothing! As soon as I got this antenna I plugged it in and ran the short length of cable through the cable bundle. WOW! Now, the 12 preset station they give me on the new radio aren't enough. Basically, from what I've read, this isn't meant to be used in a car (the car acts as a Farady cage). The boat is mostly fiberglass and doesn't block RF signals.