[911Rob]

I'm a big Sirius fan........ been there done that kinda thing. I think I can help?
I've got Sirius in boat, cars and at home.

First, in the car; you need to mount the antena on the hood in the center of the car either 6" in from the windshield or 6" up from the rear window. Mount the magnetic antena there and make sure its at least 6" away from anything like a roof rack, what have you? Try the location and see if it works. Once you've found the best location, stick with it. Hide the wires and leave the antena alone. Buy a 2nd or 3rd antena for the other vehicles and hide the wires so that you can plug and play when you jump your receiver around. Hope that helps?

At home, the antena is super sensitive. It can read a good strength at one time of the day and bad another. You need to go to their website and find the direction that your antena needs to face. My home receiver actually tells me, not sure about yours? but the site has the info. Once you know where it needs to face, find the best way to have the antena face that direction.

Example: my antena is best facing East. I have my stereo receiver in the center of the house, I pushed it out a window on the North side of the house and faced it East, almost straight up. Once you get a signal that's at least half to 3/4 strenth then you're in the right vicinity. Now the trick is to find the location that gives FULL strength. 100% full or nothing! Even if you get a good 8/10 strength you're likely to get fading? Move the antena around while holding the remote or having someone sight the strength for you. Once you find a place that gives full strength, then figure out a way to put the antena there.

I ended up putting my antena receiver close to the front of my house, along the North gutter, fastened to the chimney flashings. It faces East with no obstructions. To find this exact spot took a few days of leaving it in place and seeing if we got any fading? Today we couldn't be happier, but at first I was some pissed off too.

After a few days of solid 100% receiver signal, we drilled a small hole in the wall at the right location to be able to hide all the wires. It works great, I have it hard wired into my home sound system and it plays throughout the house. We love it.

Channel 15 rocks!