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redrover, I assume that you do get better reception with the antenna connected than without. If you haven't tried this, check it just to make sure that the problem is related to the antenna and not something internal to your receiver.
As someone has said, your cable could be shorted. Try touchiing or attaching a simple piece of wire (at least a couple of feet long) to the center conductor of the input jack for the coax cable to see if you get halfway decent reception. Move the wire around, orient it in different directions (FM is very directional). If you find that this is as good or better than the FM antenna, you probably have a bad cable. Those are easy to replace at Radio Shack.
Also, your antenna has to be pointed toward the stations you want to receive - you've probably tweaked with this already. And what is around the antenna? Is it shielded or blocked by metal objects around it or on roof? If it's not in a "clear" spot, it will definitely affect the signal reception.
One last question -- have you had good reception and performance with this setup before? In other words, do you know that there is nothing wrong with the system?
Hope some of this might help.
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