For those of you with your Sirius or XM satelllite antenna mounted inside the car on the rear deck, does window tinting affect the signal? Thanks.

 

do u have a wing?? if so check out the post on page 2 under SAT ANTENNA INSTALL, other wise In reference 2 the tint, I am a car audio installer and i have instlled many xm/sirius antenna's and its my opinion that the tint will affect the signal. it may seem to work ok but it will go in and out..

 

h2omaan I have a question? I purchased the terk xm micro antenna and the Infiniti dealership told me that I should not install it because the xm micro antenna is low profile and I will have lots of drop outs compare to the factory antenna which is high profile. What do you or other people think and is what they told me true?

 

My 5% non metallic tint killed my signal on my rear deck so I moved the antenna to the dash right next to the VIN plate.


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i have never heard of that or experienced that problem. I am using the samllest delphi XM antenna w/ the splitter box and i have never had a drop out of signal . as long as the antenna can see the sky clearly and it doesnt have to go through metal than it will work fine. like i said mine is under my wing and it works great and best of all u cant see it !!!!!

<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small"><EM>Edited by h2omaan on 06/04/04 11:15 AM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

satellite signals (which are radio waves) travel thru "line of sight"

If you can see thru with your eyes, then the signal will travel thru.

So, yes, tint will affect satellite radio wave reception. The lighter tints may not affect that much, but 5% limo tint will definitely block reception.

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