The reciever differance shouldn't be that dramatic, unless the tuner in the monitor is really crappy. I'll give you that KROQ can be a bit weak in places at times (if you're further north of Washington bl. in Pasadena) then you won't get KROQ at all, only because at that point your out of the line of sight of pretty much all the big radio towers on Mt. Wilson. The Beat is a powerful station, should be just as powerful as Power 106. There's a way you can work around the whole keyless thing and get rid of your stock radio. I think your current setup might be what's causing the random static. I'm off to work shortly, but thorw up a reminder in here or in a PM to me to look up that info for you on that.
