I tried to install one in my business but couldn't get enough signal strength. A roof antenna isn't possible. Any solutions? (XM didn't have any accessories to help, such as an antenna extension cord)
(XM didn't have any accessories to help, such as an antenna extension cord) There is a commercial $24.95 per month XM business subscription, so they must have home mounted antennas and extension antenna cable. Maybe not at your local XM car stereo installer, however.
A better bet would be to contact a TV roof antenna installer, and tell them what you want to do. They'd have a better idea of what would need to be done at your location, and could fabricate the correct antenna wire extension.
Also, there are glass mounted antennas that are designed for the back window of a car. Perhaps you could try one on a window of your business if you have easy access to the outside glass (i.e. you're not on the 50th floor!)
here try here, they make the antennaes and acc. for both services.
don't let anyone oversell you on accessories, the antennaes are all comparable (except amplified).
they try to sell drivers this big tall ugly mast ant. and after talking to a Turk tech i found that the mast antennaes are top loads, meaning that the signal feeds through the top of the load "DING!" I just put the tablespoon sized antenna i use on the highest clear viewing place on my vehicle "duh!"
as for buildings steel rienforced buildings and excessive floressant lighting creat problems for reception on the non amplified home antenna, use one of the extention cables listed on this site and get your antenna to the south side of the building and you should be good to go...
http://www.circuits2u.com/page_header/pageheader0005.htm circuit city and best have most of the radios and some of the accys, but most of thier people are idiots about sat radio and barely know about anything else. the wonderful thing about minimum wage employees, you always get what you pay for.
there are improvments that both svc's will fine tune in the future, but personally i see XM turning into the market master and ultimatly i see them going into a two way service including local weather feeds, and pay per listen.
hmm.
maybe even the next competitor to on star...
yea i admit it i've been with XM since they were six months old, almost a half a half a century