My G5 too! turned out to be extreme interference from a fluorescent floor lamp and a plasma television and another fluorescent light in our kitchen.The floor lamp alone would cause
the radio to not receive any AM or FM just noise. After turning off television and all CFL's reception is
AWESOME !
I should have known better after my twenty years of repairing professional two-way radios
for business,commercial,transportation and public service bands and dealing with interference from many things such as old computers,electric motors,
microwave ovens,cheap or bad power supply transformers,consumer radios etc..
A leaky microwave oven in a restaurant once shut down a major talk show during lunch every day for many weeks until the problem was found by checking all possible sources between the Am radio station's microwave link path with a spectrum analyzer.
Hope this info helps My G5 too! turned out to be extreme interference from a fluorescent floor lamp and a plasma television and another fluorescent light in our kitchen.The floor lamp alone would cause the radio to not receive any AM or FM just noise. After turning off television and all CFL's reception is AWESOME ! I should have known better after my twenty years of repairing professional two-way radios for business,commercial,transportation and public service bands and dealing with interference from many things such as old computers,electric motors, microwave ovens,cheap or bad power supply transformers,consumer radios etc.. A leaky microwave oven in a restaurant once shut down a major talk show during lunch every day for many weeks until the problem was found by checking all possible sources between the Am radio station's microwave link path with a spectrum analyzer. Hope this info helps