stupid question

Do not ground the antenna.

DO not ground the antenna.

DO NOT ground the antenna!

DO NOT GROUND THE ANTENNA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here's what you WANT

1...The radio case must be grounded to battery negative

2...The speaker must be connected

3...There is a "T" shaped connector with two wires, generally red and orange. Orange is the dial light, the other wire is power. That wire hooks to battery POSTIVE



4...Then take a "random length" of wire, say, 5 ft long, and carefully insert into the middle of the antenna connector. You must make contact with the inner "hot" connector of the coaxial connector.

The antenna connector looks like the red one here, so you must "get in" deep to the center connector