Radio signal fade

[Ghoste]

To be honest, I'm not sure if it's signal fade or volume fade but either way it's annoying.   Anyone have any experience with antenna trimming or whatever they do to improve this condition?   Is it just radio grounds?

[Crazy440]

If you are working with an old style radio, there should be a trim screw on the back or on some, the side.   Find a weak station and turn the scew one way then the other, until you bring in the station the best.   Remember that with old school radios, they faded alot, around hills, low areas and going under overpasses, ect.
Crazy

[Ghoste]

I have trimmed it with the small screw.  That is my only adjustment then?  The station is only a couple of miles away so I'm thinking it shouldn't fade at all for the most part.  In fact, when it fades, it is a very sudden fade, not a gradual one.

[Crazy440]

Could be the system is just getting weak.  I had to replace a couple of diodes and one resiter in my 73 to get it to work.  Glad I have a neighbor that's a tridget.
Is there any rust or corrosion around the base of the tenna or the plug end?

[Ghoste]

No, the antenna is new.  I think your old component theory may be the one and that was what I was kind of afraid of.  The el lighting works in my radio so I'm extremely reluctant to let anybody inside the radio.  The lighting operating is more important to me than getting the awesome sounds of local AM.
Thanks.

[Crazy440]

I was at a local car gathering, a few weeks ago and there was a 52 Chev,  that had the orig. radio, that worked, but piggy backed a new, small am/fm, in the glove box.  That way he could keep the old radio and have good sounds, on the road.
Crazy

[Ghoste]

Well, I mostly just turn it on once in a while for nostalgia sake more than anything else.  If someone knew an easy fix to it fading, I was all over that, but I'm not too worried about hidden sound systems in this car.  Even on long drives I don't mind it.