J&M has a new hidden antenna for '14 up baggers, has anyone installed one on their ride? Does anyone know of a review?

 

I have one installed on my 14 sg works good. I will say I always listen to a ipod and I'm in a area I think that gives good signal. I never kept the stock antenna on bike it was often it seem to be in the way especially in the garage. One day a guy on here posted a picture of his eye ball he almost pokes it out on his antenna After seeing that I never had mine on bike again. So I got jm antenna and few times I have used it it's been good.

 

I have it on mine and it's ok. It was a little better then running the stock antenna up the frame rail. I very seldom listen to the radio.

 

I put one on and my radio reception is now worse than stock. In town it's not too bad but it's seems to have much less range than the stock antenna.

 

Can someone please post a link?

 

I tried the Harley Hidden antenna. It sucked and couldn't pickup a station if I rode by it. The J&M sucked less. Would pick up some of the stations. Any hidden antenna is not going to perform like the whip. Keep in mind that a lot depends on your location and the quality of signals in your area. I ended up getting the Sirius/XM module and that antenna is not the best either. It will lose signal if you ride next to some trees. The majority of the time, I listen to a USB stick or Sirius/XM when I get tired of the stick.
Now there are some people using a shorty antenna with good luck but I just got tired of buying sucky antennas and don't even use FM.

 

http://www.jmcorp.com/ProductDetail....D=FPA-HCFM14-P

This is the one I am refering to. I tried the boom hidden antenna and am now out of $60. Get good reception with the stock whip, and decent with a short flex from Walmart.

 

That is the one that I have now. If your Boom antenna will pick up your favorite stations half the time, the J&M will pick them up three quarters of the time. My Boom antenna would NOT pick up any stations in my area and the J&M does pick up some of them. I guess I just expected the antennas to pick up the stations like the whip. It sucks riding and changing the channel and all it does is continually scroll not finding anything.

 

I tried all of them except the J&M on my 2013 Ultra. I had issues with each of them, HD, China ebay, Pepboys and another from Autozone and then to Biketronics. I tried hard to find one that worked.

What I found out playing around was that the minute I placed under my faring, there went reception. I strapped it down to the pillion seat, all was well. I called BT and they figured it was due to having metallic paint.

Once you remove the whips from the tour pak, what do you do with the studs?

 

I have both the J&M internal FM and CB antennas. Very happy with both. Reception is even better than with the OEM boom antennas.