Is My Onkyo Receiver's Tuner Dead or Just Playing Posum?

I read this thread with interest.  I live outside Chicago, listen to WFMT, and have an Onkyo receiver of approximately the same vintage with a Tuner that’s been on the fritz for about two years now.  In my case I get static, but can’t pull in any FM or AM stations.
   The only station that we listen to at home is WFMT..  since I already had both an Apple TV and Bluesound in the system, I switched to Internet Radio and we listen digitally.  This also led to us exploring other Classical Stations and now our favorite is Radio Venice.  WFMT sounds great digitally but I mainly listen to it in the car.
in my case I suspect something may have happened with the aerial, but it’s located in our attic, which is a crawl space.  We had a Home Theater installer place it there, but in the last two years I’ve had Open Heart and back surgery, so I’m not going up there to investigate.  If the task doesn’t cause me harm, my wife will hit me with a frying pan for trying.  And pretty much any radio station worth listening to has a digital feed.  Unless you are die hard analog (and if you are listening via a receiver and not a tube amp, I suspect that you are not), the differences are minor, and once you start exploring the amount of choice available digitally, you’ll never want to go back

As for crawling around in attics,or in crawl spaces under the house, that is why God made kids and phones with cameras.

Get a kid, give him $10 to crawl up there with his cell and send you live images of the connections on the attic ariel..

Well, crap. This is not good news. Two folks own similar devices to my own and both are ten years old when the tuner dies or leaves town on the sly. Rut ro.

Mine arrived on January 11, 2008 about 6P.

Well, I guess I got a couple mor months to go.

I do have a much older DHC 99 Integra Processor with a (Onkyo) tuner which I simply do not fully know how to operate when it comes to HD or side channels to the main radio stations broadcasting slot.

For music I’m with these other people. Streaming from Apple TV, or off my DAC.

I only use the FM tuner section to listen to the radio play by play broadcast of the local NFL team.

AM Bands have never been used.

I use a Sony desktop radio now for USB, Blu tooth, AM, & FM when I don’t feel up to engaging one of the other systems fully. Or merely stream to a mobile device or PC.

I’ll check back in February to see if Onkyo – Integra installs a clock which times out the tuner in their receivers. And processors.

If 3 or four people all have the same issue, at the same time, we should have an open and shut, class action suit as it would then be a quadrinanimous cncensous. Lol

What a world. What a world.

I started having issues with my Integra (flagship Onkyo) 50.1 where it was dropping the audio signal from multiple sources.  I contacted Onkyo USA support and gave them a quick history of what my issue was and what I had done to trouble shoot. Their response was to get my serial number and then send me a box with prepaid label to ship the receiver to them for repair at no cost to me. The was mind boggling to me as it’s a 2008 model, I think, with an advertised 3 year warranty. They also fixed a 40.2 for a friend which was why I even contacted them.  It might be an Integra thing or less likely related to the super high end audio store that we purchased them from. It’s strange to me.  The only email that I didn’t get a response to was my inquiry about why I qualified for this level of service. It’s in the mail or with them now. 

I don’t know why I am getting the service I am, but would recommend giving Onkyo support another chance and let them know what all you have tried. You never know. 

I had same problem and solved it.

I have an Onkyo TX-RZ3100 AV receiver and haven't tried FM tuner for a couple of months. So today I went to listen to the radio and noting sounds, no static, no low volume, no nothing. Couldn't tune any station, no FM nor AM.

I tried everything using remote control, and tried every option in config, but nothing worked.

Then I went directly to the receiver, opened the front flap and pressed the button TUNING MODE that is right above AUX INPUT HDMI and surprisingly static started to sound and I was able to do everything as expected with my onkyo remote control, even sending tuner sound to Zone 2.

Hope this will help.

Wow! That's amazing! I'll see if I can do something similar with mine. Question: Did you ever receive programming? You know, music? Or is it just static... Thanks