Thx for the info, its not that its bad reception by any means. Its just that my old car would pick up a very good station (usually) thats in pensacola, fl....which is 120 miles away(flat terrain), and I was hoping to get it with the vx.
Now even with the old car, if I went west (away from the station) I would lose it completely real fast. And the wifes car never picked it up worth a crap either, so its certainly not sub-standard performance on the vx's part at all, was just wanting it to reach as far as my other car did.