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    What about on the rear deck? Maybe along side the hi mount stop light or inside the housing?
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    I will no more on this later Rich. I have had it on the dash and on the third tail lamp and had issues either way.
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    Quote Originally Posted by fastblackmerc View Post
    What about on the rear deck? Maybe along side the hi mount stop light or inside the housing?
    Would work, but you'd be screwed going south. The rear windshield is not as sloped as the front and allows even less angle to 'get out from under' the roof for the signal. There is certainly more than enough wire for it, though!
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    You got it! Tried it going to Atlanta with each set up and thats what happened.
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    Here are the Sirius and XM elevations for various points in the US.
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    In this picture, for the antenna on the passenger dash:

    Sirius in Miami would be close to good and may only experience occasional outages (yellow).

    Sirius in Detroit would have an even easier time of it. (red)

    XM in Seattle would SUCK! (blue)



    This is a SUPER OVER-SIMPLIFIED drawing for the sake of discussion so keep your flames to yourself!!!

    We could get into the true azimuth angle vs the Zenith of the antenna... blah blah. Keep it simple..

    OOH. That gives me an idea. When we place the antenna on the passenger dash, the wire trails to the right. if we trailed the wire forward or toward the rear of the car would it make any difference. I'd think not since I'd have confidence in Pioneer putting out an antenna with a fairly round Zenith. It's worth a try, though. Ryan?
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    Quote Originally Posted by magindat View Post
    It's worth a try, though. Ryan?
    Yesssir, I shall do this. It does make sense and I have thought of this in the past, but never executed the plan. Like I have stated before, I have ample wire to relocate. Hey, maybe I could cut a 2" x 3" hole in the roof and mount the antenna there. I could put a piece of glass on to cover it, it would be the worlds smallest sunroof, and allow better transmittal of signals. I'll be right back, I need to get my sawzall...............

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    Ryan go ahead and do that so we can call you bubble head!
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    Thanks for the responses.

    Speaking of roof - what would it take to mount the antennae on the roof? Can the wire be routed out the bottom of the antenna, so that only a small wire size hole would do?

    Another option? - can two antennae be used, with one on the dash and one near the thrid brake light, such that when one is blocked the other isn't? I'm not sure, but I suspect the XM or Sirius won't mind two antenna, but the GPS might not like two unless the radio is set up to recognize two antennae.

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    Only one antenna. You can route the antenna wire under the windshield mldg and put the antenna on the roof. We put most of them there.
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    I just (2 weeks ago) installed the Avic-F90BT,question,.. how important is it to connect the speed sensor wire ? The local stereo shop I asked said no big deal ? It works perfectly without it connected so far as I can tell....

    Just curious, thanks....

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    and the magic is revealed....



    14 is the speed sensor and 18 is the signal from the steering wheel remote.

    The rest are color coded to match your radio harness if you purchase an adapter harness.

    For all AVIC models... DO NOT connect any illumination (orange or orange/white) wires. AVICs have an automatic light sensor built in.
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