Outdoor XM Antena?

DollarDave
DollarDave Posts: 2,575
edited January 2008 in Electronics
I scored an Polk XM tuner recently and just subscibed. Well, I was indeed born last night, and I do not have a southern exposure anywhere close to my home office.

Does anyone have some suggestions for an outdoor antena? I have a Directv dish and could mount something on or near it?
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  • MusikSource
    MusikSource Posts: 44
    edited January 2008
    I had the same problem and bought a marine antenna and mounted it on my roof. I bought mine off of ebay.
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  • DollarDave
    DollarDave Posts: 2,575
    edited January 2008
    MusikSource wrote: »
    I had the same problem and bought a marine antenna and mounted it on my roof. I bought mine off of ebay.

    Did you have to extend that antena cord, or did you convert it to the coaxial cable (RG6 is it?) and then back agian?
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,576
    edited January 2008
    You can buy an 50ft. extension cable for the stock antenna.
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  • MusikSource
    MusikSource Posts: 44
    edited January 2008
    I Bought an extension cable?
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  • DollarDave
    DollarDave Posts: 2,575
    edited January 2008
    dorokusai wrote: »
    You can buy an 50ft. extension cable for the stock antenna.

    I was hoping you had converted to coax because that is what I have pre-wired in my office and I have a 20 foot ceiling in there. I suspect that the antena cord is too fragile to pull through the walls.
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  • Gadabout
    Gadabout Posts: 1,072
    edited January 2008
    Terk offers an outdoor antenna that runs RG6 (coax).

    http://www.dl-electronics.com/store/item.php?sku=TERXM6

    Better description of the antenna here...

    http://www.xm-radio-satellite.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=2004
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  • sucks2beme
    sucks2beme Posts: 5,680
    edited January 2008
    I pointed mine out a North window. It worked fine. In a lot of larger cities, XM
    has ground repeaters. That means just try moving around the antenna.
    You might be surprized.
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,545
    edited January 2008
    DaveMuell wrote: »
    I was hoping you had converted to coax because that is what I have pre-wired in my office and I have a 20 foot ceiling in there. I suspect that the antena cord is too fragile to pull through the walls.

    Word is that if you modify the antenna cable in any way, it'll quit working--but I don't know the particulars. You'd be better off with the XM extension.
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