FM radio has no range - fixed ground strap, now it works!

[JR00]

Bought F3 Ltd Special new 2 years ago. The FM radio worked but as soon as I got a few miles out of town, it would lose the station. Brought it back to the dealer under warranty, but they couldn’t figure it out; the radio picked up local stations at the dealership. I decided to take this one on myself, figuring the antenna was missing a ground so the sensitivity was poor. I finally looked behind the antenna on the top case and discovered that both the antenna element and ground plane were bolted together on a ground strap. I removed the ground strap from the antenna element and behold, now it's able to pick up a station further than a mile away.