Installing Satellite radio antenna

Thanks for all the suggestions, darsben, pigman1, YC 1, and RoyB!! I'll consider all of them. I have an installer coming over this week to help me take the radio out of the dash. I tried but couldn't figure it out. I'll tell the installer about your ideas and see what he says. I'll post back the eventual solution.

This is what I did mounting antennas on the side of my 5th wheel up near the roof edge using the trucker mirror mount hardware. This is NOT the Sirius antenna but rather a Ham Radio 2M/440 antenna. As long as you can get the Sirius/XM antenna extending above the roof line it should do ok...

As you can see the mounting groves really worked out for me to guide the RG cable away from the main body and also to cover the small hole drilled into the side of the roof area. This area was picked as there was a ceiling cabinet on the other side of the trailer wall where the RG cable ended up at. Then it was easy for me to route to the radios's inside the trailer.

After the RG cable was routed into the trailer than I filled the groove area on the outside mount plate with RTV sealent.

The 8 mounting screws you see in the photo are just self tapping type metal screws only to the outside wall area.



Hope this might give some ideas in your installation if you decide to go for the TRUCK MOUNT SIRIUS/XM ANTENNA shown here..

The second photo might be better for doing this which is available from AMAZON...



ADDED NOTE: Just remembered I saw a SIRIUS/XM round antenna mounted on top of the FRIDGE FLAT PLASTIC VENT section on the roof of a trailer once - That would be another easy mount location... Sorry couldn't find a photo on google showing this.

Roy Ken

Plug the antenna in and fire it up. Then hold the antenna as far up as the coax will allow. The goal here is to get it above any metal obstacles. If you find it works well up along the inside just use some velcro to temporarily locate it. Then give it a test for some time.

If your rv has a metal roof then this will not work well. The radio signals will pass through a fiberglass roof. In some cases mounting it in the corner of the windshield will work well.

Just don't get hung up on the idea it must be outside on the roof. Remember, the little antenna is already surrounded in fiberglass or plastic so another layer to the outside world won't change things.

If the antenna you bought was one of the flat hockey puck type antenna, it can be glued down with silicon caulk. The antenna wire can be run to the roof the easiest way and the puck just glued down. We put one on our Bus about 46,000 miles ago and have had no problems with it.

can you mount THIS somewhere