Sirius Signal Cuts In and Out...Anyone Else Have This Problem?

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Mar 16, 2004 | 04:25 AM

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SLC Punk

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Originally Posted by LSUMatt1514

SLC Punk,
My antenna is in the same spot that yours is in. Only difference is that I've got the sunroof wind deflector kind of against the back end of mine. I'm gonna call Sirius and see what they say about it. It's starting to get really aggravating.

Matt

I have a sunroof wind deflector too. Its gotta be either something wrong with your antenna or satellite receiver.

I just bought an Kenwood H2A for my Celica. I drove it down to Las Vegas last weekend and had no signal drops.

Mar 16, 2004 | 04:41 AM

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bobzemuda

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Originally Posted by SLC Punk

That's not entirely true. The Sirius satellites are a lot higher in orbit, so they can reach more places than XM's lower orbit satellites. That why XM has to have repeaters, their satellites are too low. XM cuts out in the woods, garages, etc. just as much as Sirius does.

If you're in the sticks this is somewhat true, but if you're somewhere near a major metroploitan area, I haven't had any cut out problems except when driving around in the city between tall buildings.

Even in Forests and Garages the repeaters have kept my signal.

In fact, when I went wheeling last weekend, in the forest, in the sticks, I was still able to get a 3 bar signal (the highest) while I was waiting for them to winch somehwhat out, and I was really surprised.

Bill

Mar 16, 2004 | 08:28 AM

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LSUMatt1514

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I'm gonna contact Sirius and the guy I bought the tuner/antenna from off Ebay. Thanks for all of ya'lls input on this. Something has to be wrong, hopefully I can get to the bottom of it.

Matt