[Guest]

I just bought an XM radio, the Roady receiver, and it comes with a micro antenna. Now, I'm trying to figure out how to mount the damn thing. If I mount it through the rear hatch area I can't seem to figure out how I'd get it routed with enough length left, without tearing the car apart. Has anyone else mounted an antenna in their car an has suggestions, or know of maybe a different antenna I could use?

 

[RevSupra]

i install xm for a living. you kinda have to take the car apart to get the antenna to reach the unit. the antenna should be magnetic if it came with the roady so you can just stick it right on anything metal.

 

[Guest]

Blah, I just decided to go against the mounting instructions after reading through a few XM forums and installed it in the car, on the dash. No drop-outs so far, apparently the slope of the Supras windows helps.

 

[Justin Rudebaugh]

No, its not that.. Mounting on your dash really doesn't get sat signal, at least not that well. What you are experiencing is cellular repeaters that xm runs off as well. When it runs off the cellular repeaters you lose a little bit of SQ.

 

[Guest]

I haven't seen the signal drop below three bars yet, until I go under a bridge.. and then it's usually two bars, although on a really long bridge I had a second drop-out.

 

[hawkeye]

That is definately the easiest. When I still had my delphi I ran the wire up around the rear glass and stuck the antenna on the metal piece between the glass and targa.

I put it back far enough that the wire was not visable in the gap between the panels.