I tried putzing with the old antenna, took it apart, cleaned up grease, but it wouldn't go up all the way. Poor reception (i.e few stations) and haven't even bothered to turn on the radio. I installed the new antenna and no FM reception, seek would just buzz up the bandwidth. Yesterday after driving 40 minutes to JFK airport I though that being in NYC maybe I could pick up a station. To my surprise i got a zillion FM stations and that continued all the way home, 30 miles north. I put the antenna up and down by radio shutoff and it worked great in my driveway. This morning - back to nothing. It seems like it could be the radio (OEM 1995) as I haven't used it so am not familiar with its condition. Still I read something about bad diodes in an antenna means AM only . Any BTDT. I have some radios lying around but they probably won't trigger the antenna to rise as they are from 1984 to 1987. Then I could always re-install my busted antenna but that sometimes only picked up 1 station being busted.

Executive summary - 1. way to raise the mast with jumper wire.
2. No FM - any got-cha on antenna issues as it does have a circuit board.

Common sense ways it's the 21 year old radio vs new antenna.