01 Ultra w marine blue T radio. Pros cons on a batwing antenna? Lose reception here on island lots of wires overhead.

 

On my 14 ultra the batwing is terrible, compared to my standard whip....once I am 5 miles outside the city nothing.

 

I just added a 'powered FM hidden antenna' during my upgrade/rebuild.
I'm not impressed with the reception it gets in my garage, but my home radio also doesn't pick up much.

 

Ty I think I will leave as is and listen from Bluetooth.

 

I’m not too impressed with the stock antenna on my RGU. I have thought about getting a hidden antenna but from all of the reviews, they’re not impressive either. As mentioned above, I will just keep using Bluetooth.

 

I have a batwing power antenna on my 07 flhx, with the factory HD radio it worked pretty good, factory radio went out replaced it with a Kenwood marine, the batwing antenna doesn't work so great with that radio

 

I went with 2 of these One for the radio and a separate one for the cb
https://www.harley-davidson.com/us/e...nna/p/76388-08
https://www.harley-davidson.com/us/e...nna/p/76386-08

They did Umm ok to good certainly much better than the 2 fairing antenna's I had occasion to deal with

About 25 -40 miles from town (according to the set station) I am switching over to the XM radio.

WP

 

On my last Ultra, I installed the batwing antenna and the reception was not nearly as good as with the whip on the tour pak. Reception was markedly poorer when the bike was headed away from the radio station that I was listening to. Took the whip and a relocation kit and installed the whip tucked along the rear fender. I used an antenna splitter so that I could connect both antennas to the radio. Look around on YouTube and you'll find out what I'm talking about. Once done, radio reception was about as good as with the whip on the tour pak alone, didn't change much whether the tour pak was installed or not and didn't depend on which way the bike was headed. It was also one less thing to disconnect when removing the tour pak.

 

Has anyone had good luck with one of the shorter antennas? I currently have a 4” craven stubby one on and it pretty much blows!

 

I bought one of the hidden antennas. After having it on the bike for 2 months, I took it off and threw it in the trash. I wouldn't even give it away it was so awful.