Cars are moving and require very wide dynamic range due to the signal
strength's wild variations.

Get a Tivoli at Good Guys and try it out. It has a mofo front-end.
The Sangean 606A also has excellent FM performance.

Also, adding a bunch of wire will just overload the radio. If you
can, put up a proper FM antenna aimed at the station of interest.

On 29 Aug 2003 03:14:03 GMT, (Jim R Feliciano)
wrote:

I listen to KUSF at 90.3 on the FM dial. It is a college station from the
University of San Francisco. It has a weak signal. Here is my problem and my
question. I can receive the signal to the station just fine on car radios.
However, I cannot get the signal on portable AM/FM radios. My Sony ICF-SW1
can't pick it up even when I have thirty feet of speaker wire attached to the
antenna. I went to Radio Shack and none of their portable radios could pick up
the signal. Why can cars receive the signal easily and portable can't?