Satellite Radio Reception

[bcnqrgd]

I'm very disappointed with the Sat radio reception in my new Sierra SLT. Driving into town on the north side of a mountain the built in sat radio quits for about two miles each way as opposed to the last three previous vehicles which have had the little magnetic antenna on the roof which worked on the same drive with the exception of two or three one second skips in service each way. That spiffy looking GMC antenna on my new truck's roof appears to be lamer than the far less expensive Sirius/XM antennas.

 

Have any of you that live in and around mountains noticed that?

[BigKahuna]

Yes, mine is awful, was the same on my 14 1500. My last 2 trucks worked fine (08 F350 and 12 Ram 3500). GM's antenna is garbage. Anyone know if there is an easy fix?

[Spurshot]

 

But seriously... Delphi, Terk, Kenwood, and Xact make antennas.

[Cowpie]

I really don't ever listen to XM, but the wife does, and she has never said there was any problem with reception. We took a road trip to Memphis in May and she wanted to listen to XM most of the way, and I never noticed any signal drop in almost 1000 miles, including coming back thru the hills of Missouri. I suppose I might if I took a trip to Vail, but the hills are a little larger.

 

Stop in at a truck stop somewhere and get a different XM antenna and hook it up. I have seen some pretty exotic XM antennas at a lot of truck stops.

[JRKRACE]

Mine is lousy too.....Told the dealer about it and they blame the satellites.....Go figure...

[Kent2500]

Mine is lousy too.....Told the dealer about it and they blame the satellites.....Go figure...

 

Internet search on "Sirius XM Losing Signal". Numerous causes... If you can park next to someone else with XM and compare reception, should be able to isolated if a vehicle radio issue or raining in space...