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Old Mar 18, 2015 | 10:24 AM
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Originally Posted by pp6000v2
If you're running the internal module on your radio, the factory antenna is the same that comes in the XM Direct car kits. It works okay. if you want to keep the antenna hidden in the faring, find one of the home kit antennas like in the attached picture. When looking at the signal information in the diagnostic menu screen, the signal reception for me goes from ~20% strength with the car antenna to ~35-40% with the home antenna mounted in the same location.
Awesome. Looks like these are pretty cheap on ebay. Now to find the best price on the module itself...
 

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If you're running the internal module on your radio, the factory antenna is the same that comes in the XM Direct car kits. It works okay. if you want to keep the antenna hidden in the faring, find one of the home kit antennas like in the attached picture. When looking at the signal information in the diagnostic menu screen, the signal reception for me goes from ~20% strength with the car antenna to ~35-40% with the home antenna mounted in the same location.
The picture you attached doesn't look like it has the little tilt stand on it. Do you remove it? I looked at mine (same model), and looks like a Dremel tool will be needed to get the cable connector through.
 
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Originally Posted by pp6000v2
If you're running the internal module on your radio, the factory antenna is the same that comes in the XM Direct car kits. It works okay. if you want to keep the antenna hidden in the faring, find one of the home kit antennas like in the attached picture. When looking at the signal information in the diagnostic menu screen, the signal reception for me goes from ~20% strength with the car antenna to ~35-40% with the home antenna mounted in the same location.
Sweet-thanks for the tip,I just happen to have one of those laying around and never considered using it til now.
 
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