Xm Truck Antenna

Being a Nascar lover, you better be installing a Sirius anntenna or you will be up the creek next year.

Nascar goes to Sirius next year.

2006-03-29 10:14:57 by Nascar Lover

Installing an XM or SIRIUS satellite radio antenna in an extended cab pickup truck.

I have an XM radio in my truck. It uses an exterior antenna held in place by a magnet. Will an automatic car wash rip it off my truck, or can it handle the wash?

It Shouldn't do anything to the antenna. I've been through many car washes with my antenna and nothing has happened. Also, There are millions of cars out there with that antenna on the car already and they are still there!

2007-09-12 06:47:04 by Kevin A

21' Low-Loss Cable
Mirror Mount
XM Truck Antenna

My Chevy avalanche has an XM radio antenna on the roof and i was wondering if its possible to use it as the antenna for my RoadyXT (i think thats the name).

The receiver for the roady has an antenna line that you plug in but where would i find that line coming from the trucks antenna?

The factory XM tuner is usually buried behind the glove box in these vehicles, but even if the antenna plug fits the Roady, it probably won't have enough slack to run to the new device.

2008-02-24 08:38:00 by hockey_goalie31

Low profile
Mirror Mount Design
Extends above roof for best signal reception
Replaceable 18ft coax cable
Works with both Sirius and XM Satellite Radio

I'm putting a Sirius system in my truck and I want to use the nice little Sirius antenna. I don't see a way of removing the old large XM antenna. The wire must go thru the roof and I'd like to do the same for with the Sirius antenna and a little silicone. I’d use the XM antenna, but I don't think they have the same connector and I don't want to have two antennas on my roof.

Any suggestions?
conejote_99's: I actually put a new pioneer system in so I got the tuner for a pioneer. I was able to take the plastic off the XM connector and it worked.

the factory xm tuner is on the right side of the glove compartment unplug it remove it and unplug the antenna
now you can cut the plastic on the antenna plug from the factory xm and connect that to your new Sirius radio

i hope you are using this tuner

http://cgi.ebay.com/SIRIUS-SIRGM1-CHEVY- GM-SIRIUS-SATELLITE-RADIO-ADAPTER_W0QQit emZ150202530331QQihZ005QQcategoryZ109271 QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

2008-01-09 16:40:48 by scubamasterme

I have just purchased a sirius sat. unit to complement my xm receiver so I can cont. to listen to nascar. I already have a 'mushroom' antenna hooked to the mirror mount of my truck and am right now using the mag. mouse for the streamer. I was wondering if there is an adaptor I could purchase that would link both receivers to the 'mushroom' or do I have to continue to run 2 antennae? Thnx for any help I can get.

Not the cheapest thing out there but I found a splitter for an XM antenna:
http://www.xm-radio-satellite.com/index. asp?PageAction=Custom&ID=64


The XM signal uses 12.5 MHz of the S band: 2332.5 to 2345.0 MHz.
Sirius broadcasts using 12.5 MHz of the S band between 2320 and 2332.5 MHz.

These are likely close enough to use the same antenna for both services, but the antenna my have a passive high or low pass filter that blocks the competitor's signal for better reception (less interference).

Also note that when you split two RF signals the output to each receiver will be -3.5dB...in other words more than half the power will be lost on each output channel.

In terms of cost and reception it may be to your advantage just to run the second antenna.

Good Luck!

MikeC

2006-11-29 22:09:10 by boo boo