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Originally Posted by sfloriII
Hello all:
I've got XM radio in my car. About a month ago, I noticed a drop in signal quality across the board along with complete signal loss quite often.
I've checked the connections in the trunk and they're fine.
There are times when reception is fine, but for the most part, I get two out of three bars on the meter and complete signal dropouts.
Any ideas? It's the original Becker head unit with a Pioneer receiver. I also have La Jolla Audio's direct line connection from the receiver for true CD quality sound. I also don't want to pay Meyer Emco $50/hour to see what's wrong if it's an easy fix!
Thanks!!
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Hey Stefano, et al.
I have the cheap XM receiver now (the one that runs through the casette on my Becker). I've been experimenting with antenna placement. I started with the antenna dead in the middle and slowly moved it and rotated it first left then right across the dash.
In the course of this ongoing experiment, I found something that really surprised me: The best reception in the cabin is right against the windshield in fromt of the passenger. Interestingly, this conforms with the placement advice given on another thread (sorry, I can't give credit to the author) in which he'd run the antenna lead under the speaker grill and down through the dash to the XM receiver/decoder.
I wonder if this observation can be confirmed by anybody else? Does the doorpost act as a waveguide? Is there an engineer in the house?
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