The Tivoli Model One has terrible difficulty with either antenna with a station at 88.3; it is difficult to isolate the signal from nearby, weaker ones, and lots of extremely loud pops and static occur when trying to fine-tune the analog dial, but the station can only be successfully isolated with the wire, after extraordinary effort.

The Sangean WR-22WL Model has terrible difficulty with either antenna with a station at 88.3; As it is difficult to isolate the signal from nearby, weaker ones, and lots of extremely loud pops and static occur when trying to fine-tune the Digital Tuning dial, but the station can only be successfully isolated with the wire, after extraordinary effort