Satellite Radio Question

[FASTBACK340]

Me and my wife have Sirius in all of our cars, but my wife's 2004 GTI has terrible reception. It's not a satellite signal, it's in-car. I've moved the antenna from the rear hatch to the center of the roof up front by the windshield, to the rear of the roof behind the factory antenna. I've run the in-car antenna from the satillite head under the console for the car radio several times, and I've tried removing the factory antenna and using different FM frequency's to tune in the Sirius signal (88.5- 88.3- 107.8.... all "dead" stations) The probelem is bleed-through from other broadcasts. In the middle of a song you'll hear a local station coming through also (imagine Johnny Cash melding with Slipknot....) My wife is cool... but she's getting cranky. Especially when we hop in my `74 Dart and I get PERFECT reception!

I've changed from a Sportster satellite head to a Starmate and I've tried 3 different (Sirius...) antenna's. Does anybody have a suggestion for a fix? Is there a better way to advoid bleed-through? It's almost as if the car's stereo is "too good" and sucks in EVERY station being broadcast.

Help... there's gotta be someone on here with an answer!

 

[321Scamp]

I had the same trouble with my dads 06 Ram. With the newer radios they get better reception so you will get more bleed through.

There are two ways to go about fixing it, depending on how you want fix it and how much you want to spend.

1. You can go to Crutchfield.com for a adapter that will work with your factory radio. So that it will cut into the signal instead of transmitting into it.

2. This is how I have done it in my truck (Sirius) and and my dads truck (XM). Get you a after market radio, I would recommend any Pioneer, that has a AUX input in the front or back of the radio. Front input will have a exposed cable but if you want to move the radio and cable to something else, you can. With the input in the back you can hide and tuck the cables to make it look like it was install by the factory. Either way all you will have to do is switch from cd or radio to the AUX for listing to the satellite.

My truck has a Pioneer radio with two AUX inputs in the back. I use one for my Sirius radio. Dads Pioneer has a single AUX in the front.
If you want to see pics of the two different setups, let me know will snap a few for you.

Hope this helps you some!

 

[bobs340dartsport]

I had the same problem with my 99 Saturn, I just used the cassette deck adapter that went with the portable CD player my wife used a few cars ago. The adapter had a jack that fit into the output of the Sirius radio.

If you have a CD player radio then you would have to use the AUX input on it. I will have to do that in my replacement saturn (other one was wrecked a few weeks ago) once I get it on the road.

Bob

 

[321Scamp]

That is correct. If you have a cassette player, you can use one of those tape adapters as well.

You can start with this page to find what you need.
Crutchfield Car Search

 

[FASTBACK340]

That is correct. If you have a cassette player, you can use one of those tape adapters as well.

You can start with this page to find what you need.
Crutchfield Car Search

Thanks for the replys.... I'll look into this deeper. Looks like a $70 adapter will do the trick. The factory stereo stays, since the car only has 16K on it, it's still a "new" car. To me at least....

I had joined Joeys Car Audio Forum and that was a waste of time. Thanks for the input guys!

 

['64 Cuda]

One thing to watch out for with the cassette adapters. I have a problem with one of my cars with a factory auto-reverse cassette stereo in it. Whenever I use one of the cassette adapters the tape player continually reverses itself. It just sits there & clicks over & over.