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if you're looking for a shorty antenna i can already tell you they won't have as good reception as the factory antenna .. i got a short antenna off amazon because my home parking garage is 6'8 and my work one is even lower.. luckily i don't really use the antenna, but for the odd moment my son's phone is dead and he uses mine i can't pick up half the stations i used to with the stock antenna
I picked up a short one (approx 12-14") at a parts store with various adaptors for all makes. I live midway between Knoxville and Chattanooga TN, can pick up FM stations in both cities w/o issues. NO difference than the tall OEM mast that beat my garage door opening up. LOL
The engineers do more work on radio reception than people can understand. If you put out a vehicle with poor radio reception you might as well quit selling the vehicle. I did a huge stereo upgrade to my previous 03 Santa Fe and played with aftermarket antennas to try to improve the new headunit reception. Nothing worked like the factory antenna. Nothing was egen close.
Who actually listens to FM radio anymore??? Lol I haven’t in years, that’s why we have XM, IPhones and iPods, smart phones, streaming even CDs! FM reception is garbage unless it’s HD so that limits what I would listen to even more but I don’t.
If you got it you might as well make sure it is usable. I have Sirius on the headunit and in my phone, all my music in my phone and the CD player is for playing a pink noise cd during set up. But after 4 or 5 hours on the road a trip through the FM scan occasionally turns up an interesting station or 2. You never know what you will stumble across in flyover country. I have found some really good college stations and once or twice an independent FM radio station still doing something unique.
I have a stubby from Amazon, just for looks. I don't listen to FM anymore, haven't in a couple of years now, due to the sheer number of commercials they play (seems to be all stations at the same time). I have all my songs on USB now.
12-06-2018, 08:42 AM
Best antenna replacement?
