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Post Wed Nov 07, 2007 9:50 pm

Are their any 'out of sight' aerial options?

The Sony DAB radio im looking at has a daft fly paper type aerial that sticks to the inside of the windscreen :?

Dont really want to attack the roof with a hole saw for the Corsa bee sting type aerial either
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Post Thu Nov 08, 2007 12:04 am

I have read somewhere that you can get them to work off the ordinary aerial ..you have to put in some sort of splitter...mine did (before it got nicked)
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Post Thu Nov 08, 2007 12:10 am

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Post Thu Nov 08, 2007 12:54 am

Nothing for the cab then..... unless I stick it on the windscreen :(
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Post Thu Nov 08, 2007 8:01 am

:roll: eerrrr did you not read my post(s) or look further down than the first aerial??
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Post Thu Nov 08, 2007 11:56 am

I've got the splitter, works fine all over the country except the town I live in... :roll:


I had a proper DAB windscreen aerial from Blaupunkt before, just a couple of lines along one side of the screen and it gave a much better signal than the splitter.
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Post Thu Nov 08, 2007 6:05 pm

I'm planning on upgrading to DAB sometime soon.
The 'screen aerial doesn't float my boat. I'm torn between the splitter and the bee-sting.
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Post Thu Nov 08, 2007 10:16 pm

Cheers Dave :D

Thats that sorted then :thumb:
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Post Thu Nov 08, 2007 11:45 pm

I use a splitter as well. It's shite around where I live, but general radio reception is crap as well. If I go closer to London, it works a treat. Excellent signal on the M25 :roll:
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Post Thu Nov 22, 2007 8:23 pm

What a waste of £20, picks up my local stations fine but looses them about 15 miles before my old FM setup would.
Also weakens the standard FM signal to the point that its difficult to keep radio 1 in reception! :x

Not happy with this product at all, what is the point in having DAB if you can only recieve local stations ffs

Dont buy the autoleads junk. Im now going to try and get my money back from the eBay seller :piss:
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Post Fri Nov 23, 2007 9:00 am

my fiat had a signal amplifier..
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Post Sat Nov 24, 2007 4:48 pm

For the DAB aerial Dave?
The autoleads splitter cannot be used with an amplified aerial

I am going to try and get the sony sticky tape aerial to work behind the check panel trim
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Post Sat Nov 24, 2007 5:00 pm

didnt have dab aerial used the cars normal aerial which is a rear screen one which is amplified on the fiat and some of the screen dab aerials are amplified according to the ads