Made a splitter cable today for some antenna testing to try and see if I could get AM stations any better. Fail! I tried every combo available of antennas and hookups and no matter what I can't pick up AM stations around here while sitting in the carport. But like I said AM stations and coverage sucks around here anyway so... your results may vary.

I would like to mount the antenna away from visible locations (glass, outside, etc). Do these antenna's work say in the trunk of an FC (Pretty much where the latch is)? I would be concerned that improperly mounting the antenna would yield less than desirable results.

Haven't run it back that far but I will today just to see. It does make a difference where it is though. If it's just laying on the passenger floor board it's not nearly as good as if I raise it about a foot off of it as in behind the plastic where the dash speaker is located. Just laying it behind the passenger seat on the bin works very well, laying it on top of the passenger headrest works extremely well as does being held up by the passenger window visor, laying it on the roof, holding it up to where the rear hatch meets the roof on the inside... But no mater where I've put it it works a hell of a lot better than the stock one which is stuck in the down position and I don't plan on replacing it again.

I got a hidden antenna from these guys http://www.ecshylites.com/page/page/761353.htm for my FD. Mounted it to the vertical bracing in the area between the cargo area and tail lights. Needed a Motorola style male-male adapter. I'm getting much better FD reception than the OEM antenna, have tried on AM yet.

Jack

^I did the same thing. I got my antenna from them and mounted it in the same place, but I lost a station or two, and I haven't been able to get the only AM station I listen to either. Well, I can't say I lost them really, since my stock antenna would not raise so I never had the stations in the first place. But compared to the reception in my civic with all stock equipment, I don't get stations in the FD that I do in the civic. Originally I had mine spliced together with an AV adapter (couldn't find the Motorola piece), but my stock antenna wire was bad going into the stereo anyway so I bought a wire extension and ran it in place of the stock wire.

Is that the link to the exact antenna you bought? If not, which one did you get? I can't get on the page while I'm at work but I'll check tonight if I can remember.

I got the TT1E antenna. I found the adapter on crutchfield.com

Jack

How's reception quality/mounting locations? I'm wondering if the location individuals have placed them is similar to a Faraday cage?

Yeah that's the same one I got. Maybe I'll mount it somewhere else to see if I can get the other stations.

I get good sound quality on the stations I still get, no static or anything like that.

Where I put mine is (FD btw) in the most rear of the car, between the tail lights and the plastics, where it's hidden. I might put it under the rear strut bar and see if it get's the other stations though.

So, what did you guys do about the antenna hole?

i actually just put in a body plug from my spare fd chassis for now i will fill it later when the bodywork gets done.

z

I had mine filled in when the body work was done.

So is that location (on the FD) surrounded by plastic or is there steel there? I'm curious because i'm debating if this will work on the FC (steel all the way around), or if I'm going to be SOL when it comes to hidden antenna.

It's light weight steel support near the center. The antenna has a square plastic piece with double sided tape that puts the plastic antenna shaft about 1/8-1/4 in. off the metal.

Jack

^I never actually mounted mine, I just laid it in there.

Like he said, there is a little bit of metal, but it's mostly the rear plastics enclosing it. Its not really like a metal cage around it.

I have the hidden antenna from autoloc mounted on the glass near the top of the hatch. It is powered and works really well. You cant even see it unless you know its there.

http://www.thehoffmangroup.com/autol...odinc=antennas

I haven't tried hidden antenna and I think I'll always go for the normal one.