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The option of either an SMB or SMA connection is also another great bonus that many other brands don’t offer.
Tucks in neatly behind the trim at the top of the windscreen, with the cable run down the A pillar alongside the existing wiring. I tightened the aerial nut on with a 2-25Nm torque wrench, 5nm is not very tight and easy to over do it. Overall, the SHENKEY Kit is a great choice that comes as a complete kit and easy to follow installation instructions. Moved on to a mag-mounted stick aerial (Bumps off as I revers into garage, so needs to be re-positioned as I drive out the garage. The previous NC I had to fiddle about adding ferrites to the cabling as I got interference from my dash cam when it fired up.
Avoid damaging your radio's SMA antenna connector as you will need to use antennas for the base, mobile devices or any style other than the antenna. We specialises in the sale of RF coaxial connectors,adapters, cable assemblies,3G/GSM/WIFI/GPS antennas etc, and especially provides custom services for these products. If you require further information regarding our DAB aerial recommendations for your car, feel free to get in touch and we will try to provide our assistance where possible. This is sometimes provided by the tuner inside the radio (check the manual to see if it is, and if so, if you need to turn it on in a menu, or if it’s on all the time), and sometimes just through a separate wire you can take to the ignition live on the radio (usually red in colour in ISO/Quadlock connectors), or the electric antenna output from the stereo.
There is no better antenna than one tuned to length, on the outside of the vehicle, in the middle of a metal ‘ground plane’ (normally the roof, but you have a pop top made of composite I assume), with a full 360 degree ‘view’, but inevitably compromises on one or more of these requirements is required in the ‘real world’. If you don’t have the BOSE system - you could get a DAB aerial and mount it where the dash speaker should be. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. There is nothing worse than poor reception from your DAB radio or adapter but this can be easily resolved with a quality aftermarket aerial. It's just that the one that came included with my Pure Highway wasn't regarded by those who had tried as the best option.As we own a number of old cars that haven’t got DAB factory fitted, we’ve retrofitted multiple aerials in the form of roof-mounted and windshield kits. As a interim update I took it back to Halfords and had them put the DAB aerial on the roof of the car as designed. It turned out I didn’t need it as I found both standard and dab leads behind the dash of my 2019/20 ducato so took it back. Tried putting the magnetic base onto the inside of a round sandwich cake baking tin, placed on parcel shelf, now no dropouts except in tunnels.
Antenna Connector: SMB Male with DIN Male Fully electronic car radio combination roof aerial for the digital DAB/DAB + and analogue AM / FM radio reception. It occasionally cuts out but that’s the same on my daily drivers fully built in DAB system, just certain spots. Travelling around the Peak District sometimes my data signal drops out on the phone in the more remote areas, the DAB signal is usually still there. You’ve got the same van as us I think, and Cliff fitted a a stubby aerial to the front panel of the van.
I do wonder if I should have just gone with the easy option of fitting a good glass mounted aerial as per Dave T H above! There’s an air duct that you can drill into from under the bonnet, and then feed the cables through attached to a thin piece of wire. Below are some photos we took during the testing and installation of our recommended car DAB aerials above.
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