I had zero reception on the stock radio, the previous owner(butcher) created an electrical nightmare i'm still sorting out...i actually had a spare antenna laying around which i had to solder onto the existing antenna wire which was cut and spliced 3 times!
I wound up mounting it under the front cowl and using the entire truck frame as an antenna...so far so good
The cowl piece is the least of my concerns right now, i'll eventually fix that lol...i need to re wire the engine cooling fans onto a rocker switch asap. The butcher hardwired the fans using a piece of 14awg wire into the fuse box under the fuel pump fuse! the fans are constantly running and the wire keeps arching