Radio Antenna

Have any of you guys changed the stock radio antenna for a sharks fin
type antenna?

http://www.visualgarage.com/home.html

http://www.sigmaautomotive.com/FoliaTec/antenna.php

Someone has unscrewed mine & walked off with it .

If so, what was you radio reception like with the shark fin antenna.

[Resist]

Not after seeing how much they cost.

Would be lower drag too

I'd say $59 is pretty good, I have mailed them about getting one shipped to the uk.

[goat961]

who needs a radio antenna? it's next on my list of things to remove.

[b1shmu63]

Yes well er, it does help radio reception. I supose the question would be, who needs a radio?

[Fenrir]

Originally Posted by b1shmu63

Yes well er, it does help radio reception. I supose the question would be, who needs a radio?

Indeed. CD player with homemade line-in connector for mp3 player or laptop. Haven't listened to the radio in the car in at least a year. I'm considering removing my antenna and making a base or some kind of mount for a telescoping rod antenna, and adding a connector behind the center console to plug it in on the fly, for those extremely rare occasions when I might want to use the radio. My Pioneer head unit doesn't like the OEM antenna much, anyway.

[Insightful Trekker]

Originally Posted by Fenrir

My Pioneer head unit doesn't like the OEM antenna much, anyway.

Possibly because the Insights antenna is amplified (requires a power source) and the Pioneer's connector no longer supplies it.

HTH!

[Fenrir]

I'm pretty sure I connected the antenna power to the +12V source. For FM reception, there's no beating a metal rod of the appropriate length.

[minako]

It seems to me that the stock antenna isn't very powerful. Well, it doesn't seem as powerful as the one that came stock with my '98 Accord. I listen occasionally to a local AM station in the mornings (KGO 810) for traffic, and I find that the reception is full of static. I also have a FM transmitter for my iPod that worked fine in the Accord and also in my S2000 (before I got an Alpine with Fast Link)... but I will get bursts of really loud static in the Insight. Is this normal? ^^;