where do you put a satellite radio antenna, on a 1800 goldwing with a roadsmith kit
where do you put a satellite radio antenna, on a 1800 goldwing with a roadsmith kit
I put mine on the hand mic holder on the handlebars. Works fine. The portable unit goes right in my side pocket with my jack and power supply.
Mine is mounted on the windshield in the center at the bottom, just above the cowl. Someone makes a kit to mount the antenna above the clutch master cylinder or on the right side above the brake master cylinder.
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On my gold wings, I mounted the radio in the trunk and the antenna on the rear right speaker with Gorilla tape ...
If you look close you can see it in this pic
My XM antenna is the magnetic type. Its just on the left front speaker grill. I found if I buried it under the shelter. It didn't work as well.
I mounted mine on top of my left hand mirror, ran wires down through mirror mount behind boot, into left fairing, then up the left handle bar.
I use SkyFi 1 since 2002.
It varies each year or two. At first, and currently … it is inside the trunk lid on top of sheet metal fastened atop an aluminum piece across two most rearward trunk rack bolts. It does Ok.
I did at one time, have it sitting on a metal plate of chrome steel sheet zip tied at top of trunk rack front loop, but I think it was too close to Wife's helmet, so I undid that.
As it is, I have a path to enable me to take it out the front of trunk and tuck wire in beside pass backrest and stick it on rack bag if used … magnetically if desired … or leave in trunk if no bag in place as it picks up well. I once threatened to stick it on Wife's helmet … .
My XM is all in the trunk top anyway, docking station, power / wireless modulator too. I don't surf, if I listen to XM I just set a station and leave it alone. It's so close to trike's antenna, no interference is heard. I just open trunk, turn on, set my channel if needed before I mount. No rain, no sun, no prying eyes … and I have enough to play with while riding without surfing XM channels.
Gonna sound crazy, but the trunk lid layer of ABS, spoiler, and rack don't seem to hinder reception much.
A trunk rack bag with rain gear in it on the rack will kill reception, so that's when I feed it out behind pass back rest and stick on top of rack or a piece of metal velcroid to trunk rack bag top.
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