I've ready a lot of different ideas for placing the sat radio antenna on this site. I decided on a different plance. I'm not sure if anyone else has done this...

Behind the driver's seat...to the left of the plastic roll-bar cover....underneath where the top folds down. If you fold your top down and look just behind where the seat belt goes into the plastic panel, theres a flat area of plastic there facing skyward.

When the top folds down the antenna is almost entirely out of site but the reception is great. I just used some double-sided tape to hold it in place. Then I ran the wire through the crack in the plastic panel and into the trunk area. I stashed the receiver on the left side of the trunk in front of the fuel pipe that runs into the tank.

No problem with clearance when the top is folding up/down. And when the top is up, the reception is fine.

Oh yeah, when you put the toneau (spelling?) cover on, it hides the antenna all together but doesn't affect the reception.

 

Can you post a picture?

 

this location will only work when you are within range of terrestrial repeaters; when you're in the boonies while traveling it will drop out.

 

Is your antenna flat, with the base parallel to the ground? "facing skyward" sounds bad. The antenna should be mounted in the same configuration as it would be on a roof. But if it works for you, that's great. I've now mounted two on dashboards (in a Civic and a Mazda 3) and they work great 99%+ of the time.

 

yes, the base is down. The top is "facing skyward".

I'm in the boonies...I live 75 mi from a major metro area...no probs. By the way, I'm not sure Sirius has any terrestrial repeaters. If so, then when I was in Phoenix and went under an overpass, should be no problem. You need line-of-sight to the sat.


I'll work on getting a pic up.

 

Yep, same with XM. There are very few ground-based retransmitters around LA. But if you lose signal for two seconds a trip who cares? At least it's silent when there is no signal.