Radio reception quality

What's up with the FM radio reception. It is the worse. My old school clock radio/alarm in my room gets better reception. I'm in South Orange county and get nothing. No krock,klos, 91x. It won't even find it.
Any one else have this issue..? I have a 18.

 

I noticed that too, from south la county/north oc. I figured that I’m just on the border of their broadcast range.

 

My previous car, 03 Matrix, got all the stations no problem; It is not my location. I mostly connect my phone anyways, but it's still annoying not being able to.

 

Have you checked the antenna connector on the back of the head unit? Might be loose. Also, with the TuneIn App you can stream many of your favorite radio stations from your phone.

https://tunein.com/radio/Stream-Los-Angeles-r100002/

 

I have a 2023 and yes, the FM reception sucks.

 

The only downfall of not having an external antenna mast. My older vehicles still pick up my favorite radio station 30+ miles down the road. My Tacoma does not. But that station is not a real powerful station. It sure does suck when I'm half way to work and lose reception.

 

Sorry OP. I don’t listen to the radio

 

My radio is connected to my ham radio gear have no ideal if the FM really even works. Big plus with the ham gear no ads!

 

Lol ..100%....id still like it to actually work though

 

Agreed definitely.

 

I download podcasts that interest me and listen when I want. You may find some interesting podcasts on this link.

https://www.wired.com/story/best-podcasts/

As for a podcast on trucks, check this out.

https://truckshowpodcast.com/

 

I relocated my Entune radio antenna to an external one that works much better-See post #4

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/bad-fm-reception-can-you-help.808536/#post-28999414

 

PBD one of my favorite pod cast... Not so much the interviews. But those can be good too

 

I haven't listen to 'radio' in years.... At least 15. Once the technology got to the point where I could just listen to what I wanted to hear (With NO commercials) via USB/thumb drive and/or podcasts via Bluetooth... I kissed terrestrial radio goodbye.

 

I have noticed certain FM channels jumping between the regular quality and that super shitty "HD" radio.

For my case, unless there was some update for the radio programing I think its just the local station messing it up.

 

Mine worked just fine up until I put the roof rack on about 4 months ago. Now all, sat and terrestrial are patchy.

 

They got rid of the hard rock station in ATL so I haven't listened to the radio in 5 years. Aftermarket radio was fine after I hooked up the power booster wire to the antenna