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Old 06-18-2017, 09:01 PM   #11 (permalink)
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That's a vertical monopole. It would be most efficient mounted in the center of the [grounded] roof.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_plane

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Old 06-19-2017, 10:41 AM   #12 (permalink)
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I still wanna do something with my AM/FM antenna, but I went ahead and setup my XM radio last night. They had 6 months for only $5 a month, so I figured why not. I don't mind $5 a month, but it'll get shut back off before the price shoots back up to regular. Atleast that gives me 6 months to figure out a better regular radio antenna.
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I just figured out...

The shark fin on the roof is only for the XM radio. The radio antenna is in the rear window. Looks pretty sucky too. I just removed the tint on the rear window. I don't know if it had metallic in it or not, I just don't like tint anyway. I wonder if adding an actual antenna on the car, like cars use to have, would make a difference? I could probably add one of those power up/down antennas beside the trunk and it would look okay.

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