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I bought the home kit for inside my house...glad to have a separate doc for the house...but the folding, inside antenna? Worthless.

I can't get anything on it, so I took the car antenna inside, tried it, and now I have perfect reception. I've been hearing that if you can't use the home kit antenna inside your house, then the car antenna WILL NOT WORK. Not true at all.

I just bought a second car antenna...one for the house and one for the car.

Has anyone else experienced this?
 
> I bought the home kit for inside my house...glad to have a
> separate doc for the house...but the folding, inside
> antenna? Worthless.
>
> I can't get anything on it, so I took the car antenna
> inside, tried it, and now I have perfect reception. I've
> been hearing that if you can't use the home kit antenna
> inside your house, then the car antenna WILL NOT WORK. Not
> true at all.
>
> I just bought a second car antenna...one for the house and
> one for the car.
>
> Has anyone else experienced this?

I haven't used my car antenna indoors, but it seems that it seems to be a much better antenna overall. I have two of the folding antennas, and I have one of them outside.

Here's a funny story, I took my Sirius receiver to a New Years Eve party in a town that doesn't have a terrestrial repeater. I attempted repeatedly to aim the folding antenna out the lone window in the room and could get nothing more than one bar. I pulled the antenna out of the window and sat it down on a table against a solid wall ... and got two bars. Go figure.
 
> Has anyone else experienced this?
>
I have experienced all kinds of unpredictable antenna results. My living room home dock antenna runs out the glass balcony door onto the balcony and it took a lot of jiggling to find the sweet spot where the signal never drops out. My bedroom window is on the same floor and faces the same direction -- but the boombox gets a great signal with the antenna eight feet inside from the window!
The other day I forgot I left my car antenna inside the trunk after a car wash and didn't lose the signal for several minutes.
 
> > I bought the home kit for inside my house...glad to have a
>
> > separate doc for the house...but the folding, inside
> > antenna? Worthless.
> >
> > I can't get anything on it, so I took the car antenna
> > inside, tried it, and now I have perfect reception. I've
> > been hearing that if you can't use the home kit antenna
> > inside your house, then the car antenna WILL NOT WORK.
> Not
> > true at all.
> >
> > I just bought a second car antenna...one for the house and
>
> > one for the car.
> >
> > Has anyone else experienced this?
>
> I haven't used my car antenna indoors, but it seems that it
> seems to be a much better antenna overall. I have two of
> the folding antennas, and I have one of them outside.
>
> Here's a funny story, I took my Sirius receiver to a New
> Years Eve party in a town that doesn't have a terrestrial
> repeater. I attempted repeatedly to aim the folding antenna
> out the lone window in the room and could get nothing more
> than one bar. I pulled the antenna out of the window and
> sat it down on a table against a solid wall ... and got two
> bars. Go figure.
>
I have a similar situation, with the folding antenna in a window where the instructions say to put it, I either got nothing, at best one bar. I decided to just lay it on my bed, I got 2 sometimes even 3 bars.
 
I use the folding antenna FLATTENED inside my attic just inside of a very small window facing south, it's hooked via the Terk 50 foot extender cable to a PNP unit in my studio and 99.5% of the time I get at least 2 bars or more from the birds only, I rarely see a repeater signal.

If I open it, I get dropouts, I suggest using it completly folded flat.
 
> I bought the home kit for inside my house...glad to have a
> separate doc for the house...but the folding, inside
> antenna? Worthless.
>
> I can't get anything on it, so I took the car antenna
> inside, tried it, and now I have perfect reception. I've
> been hearing that if you can't use the home kit antenna
> inside your house, then the car antenna WILL NOT WORK. Not
> true at all.
>
> I just bought a second car antenna...one for the house and
> one for the car.
>
> Has anyone else experienced this?
>
I've experienced the opposite sort of problem. My car antenna has gone to crap. It seldom picks up more than one bar anymore. So I now use my home antenna in my windshield. It picks up 3 bars on a far more consistent basis and doesn't suffer drop out in tunnels and such any worse than the car antenna.

I have a friend doing the same with his XM Roady. He even bought an extra home antenna so he doesn't have to lug the other one in and out of the house.
 
> I use the folding antenna FLATTENED inside my attic just
> inside of a very small window facing south, it's hooked via
> the Terk 50 foot extender cable to a PNP unit in my studio
> and 99.5% of the time I get at least 2 bars or more from the
> birds only, I rarely see a repeater signal.
>
> If I open it, I get dropouts, I suggest using it completly
> folded flat.
>
Try a car antenna on top of a window mount air conditioner,solid bars all day long!never drops.
 
> > I use the folding antenna FLATTENED inside my attic just
> > inside of a very small window facing south, it's hooked
> via
> > the Terk 50 foot extender cable to a PNP unit in my studio
>
> > and 99.5% of the time I get at least 2 bars or more from
> the
> > birds only, I rarely see a repeater signal.
> >
> > If I open it, I get dropouts, I suggest using it completly
>
> > folded flat.
> >
> Try a car antenna on top of a window mount air
> conditioner,solid bars all day long!never drops.
>
I'm currently using the car antenna outside because that's the only antenna that'll stick to the side of my mobile home. I don't get s**t with either antenna by the windowsill. I have debated about trying the home antenna outside mounted along side the pole an outside light is on. I would like to get the antenna that mounts to an antenna pole, and is made just for home. As for where I live in Gary, I barely get a repeater signal, and when it does come in, it comes in from Chicago, possibly from one of the skyscrapers. I normally rely on the satellite signal for reception.
 
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