Well, I went through the boxes on my dad's workbench and found a big tangle of cheap speaker wire so I thought I'd just try to rig something temporary up to see if I could get anything

After I spent an hour with one end of the cable tied to the door handle of my car while I pulled the other end through loops and nots in the drive way I got it all neatly wrapped around a spool I found in the same box. Then I cut off about 35 feet or so... and another 6 feet....I took radio and put it in the window of an upstairs room... hooked the ground pin up to the screw on an electrical face plate with the 6 foot wire... hooked up the 35 foot cable to the SW screw and push-pinned(yeah, this is the high life here) it up the wall to the ceiling, around the room to the door, and along the hall untill the cable ran out...

When I turned the radio on I got lots of weird noises(which is more than what I got with no wire)... and that's about it.

I obviously am going to have to put more effort(...and more money...) into this if I'm going to get anywhere with this.

[edit]I just went and tried again.... I got some stuff... all in foreign languages... I think mostly spanish. I also found that if I keep my hand on the top of the radio, it sounds better, but that makes me tired standing there. .... there was one really odd one... I heard some lady talking but then there was this really deap moaning voice mixed in.[/edit]