Ram and camper blocking Sirius Antenna
truck camper blocks Sirius antenna. I already figured this out on my 2015 ram. It has Uconnect 5 and only a Sirius Puck on roof, which I just unplug and hook up a mag mount puck that sits on hood....
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Travels with Yoly wrote:
I don't think you mention if your Ram is a 1500 or not.
1500 is little light for carrying my Arctic Fox 990 ;)
I pulled all the pieces out of my 2015 I used to allow the standard aftermarket magnetite sirus/xm antenna to plugin to the factory harness. I notice the connector behind the pillar on my 2015 even had 2 wire sockets in it (1 for sat/nav antenna and 1 (thicker) for cell phone antenna). According to the drawings I have seen, my 2018 will have this same connector only it will have 2 wires in it. It looks like I can just repeat what I did on my 2015 for the satellite antenna.
On this blue connector is little clips you can remove with a dental pick that allow you to remove the actual wire connector from the blue connector, than I have a short 2' jumper cable that plugs into the factory cable (will not fit in connector, so I wrap a little foam around it to prevent rattles).
I run this cable down to behind the glove box where I connect the end of an aftermarket magnet antenna I mount out on the hood.
the idea was that in winter when camper is off truck, I can plug in factory antenna and hide aftermarket under hood, but in realty I don't drive the truck much in winter so I never switched it.
Some have said the 2.3ghz Sirius/xm antenna will still receive the 1.57ghz signal of the GPS transmitters. It might not be strong enough to use for NAV, but my radio don't have NAV. I think this GPS in receiver is only for the built in emergency service system and stolen vehicle tracking.
