All I see are the stupid little magnetic or adhesive mount external puck antennas with a cable that has to be run into the car. Does anyone make a better, more attractive option than this for Sirius receivers?

 

Glass mount maybe? What happened to all of those?

 

Fabrik8 is asking VADriven for help? WTF?

 

When I asked Subaru to install the sirius adapter on my radio I asked them the same question. I'm guessing you are going with a plug and play kit? Is this going to be hardwired or are you using the AC power. Results do vary depending upon how you will run your receiver.

My Subaru's radio came with a satellite option, it just wasn't installed on the one I was looking at. I asked them about the installation of the module and they specified it would only be the antenna visible for roughly 3 inches up the passenger side of my windshield. However, I opted to go with a satellite ready headunit as they wanted over $500 for the module and installation.

 

Soooo what did you end up doing for an antenna for the satellite-ready head unit? I'm looking at head units but am hung on the idea of running a cable out of a window/trunk seal somewhere. I think I'm going to research the frequency range and see if putting the antenna under the plastic windshield wiper cowl will cause problems with signal attenuation. I dunno though, people talk about heavy overhead foliage causing signal problems so I'm not sure if that will work.

There apparently used to be a few through-glass antennas on the market but they don't seem to be produced any longer, probably because of some change in the satellite receivers I'd imagine. I can't imagine that I'm the only person looking for a solution that doesn't require cables to be run outside of the car.


Satellite radio is definitely outside of my realm of expertise.

 

I never did end up getting the head unit for the same reasons as cables being ran outside of the car. Instead my car came equipped with Bluetooth, which i connect my phone to, and run the satellite radio app off of my phone. It works great and sounds fantastic.

It sounds like you hate the cable puck thing as much as I do. The Bluetooth option might be something for you to look into, you can run any streaming music/radio and you get hands free calling. Win win in my book.

 

I did a little research on the Corvette factory XM antenna location since Corvettes have no external antennas on them (at least C5's and C6's). Turns out the antenna is mounted inside the car on top of the driver side rear wheel well. Some guys are having luck with mounting them on the inside of the rear hatch glass also. Now I know you probably aren't putting this in a vette but since it seems to be working inside a plastic fender, your proposed location of under the plastic wiper cowl may work fine and might warrant a try. Just some info.

 

my subaru has the sirius puck installed despite me never having used the service. the puck is attached close enough to the corner of the windshield that the cable isn't visible or the puck itself is visible to the driver.

i mean, if you don't want a stick on antenna or whatever, you gotta deal with it, bro.

 

Satellite Radio has been on 3/5 cars i've had...and i've never used it. Are you absolutely certain you'll use it enough to not just go the cell phone/bluetooth method?

 

So is the puck outside or inside?