Anyone know anything about Sirius antenna's?

[Lester]

The wife's Sportster is permanently broadcasting the "Acquiring Signal" channel, which is no where as good as Lithium 24.

Without having to completely unwire the antenna, does anyone know what a continuity test on the leads should return? Once I've removed that from the mix, I can try and get the head unit replaced.

Thanks.

[sportsvoice]

The wife's Sportster is permanently broadcasting the "Acquiring Signal" channel, which is no where as good as Lithium 24.

Without having to completely unwire the antenna, does anyone know what a continuity test on the leads should return? Once I've removed that from the mix, I can try and get the head unit replaced.

Thanks.

I have no idea what you'll get back on a continuity check. There must be some sort of load at the other end (LNA?) because I think the antenna is powered by a DC voltage off the receiver.

[Lester]

Well crap.

The good news is it miraculously started working today.

[AmpedNow]

This seems to be a reoccuring problem on about all of the older Sirius radios... The Starmate Replay and the Sirius One do the same thing.

I don't know what the fix is. It could just be bad contacts in the radios.

It's past time for Sirius to release some next gen radios, anyway...

[Lester]

OK... this thing is 6 months old... it ain't time for nuthin' but STILL WORKING.

[AmpedNow]

Even though the radio is still "new", Sirius is still using 2G chipsets...

XM has been 3G for over a year now.