Its been a while since I have installed a SIRIUS antenna in my home, but I had a question about the antenna aiming. I know in the past I was suggested to point your antenna to the North or Western skies. I then remember reading something somewhere that you now point your antenna south with the launch of a new satellite. Is this the case?
I ask cause I am trying to help a family member possibly install SIRIUS in their high rise condo in Florida. I was there over the holiday break and brought my Sportster Replay unit with antenna & home dock unit. The are they planned to possibly have the radio seem to have a view (through windows and/or glass doors) of the north and western skies. I tried my gear and wasn't having much luck getting signal by pointing out these windows/glass doors facing north or west. However, I did have luck when running the antenna on to the edge of the porch and I think it was getting a signal from the south.
Another circumstance that makes me believe pointing to the southern sky is now needed is my home set up. Years ago, I ran an antenna onto my roof (through attic with 50ft Terk extension) and it has been working great for years. Three bars on my Sportster Replay unit. However, recently I am getting one bar at times and even "acquiring signal" messages displayed on the unit and periodic silence (but then comes back).
I can probably change the location of my home antenna, but just wondering if the southern sky is now the preferred direction to point an antenna?
I ask cause I am trying to help a family member possibly install SIRIUS in their high rise condo in Florida. I was there over the holiday break and brought my Sportster Replay unit with antenna & home dock unit. The are they planned to possibly have the radio seem to have a view (through windows and/or glass doors) of the north and western skies. I tried my gear and wasn't having much luck getting signal by pointing out these windows/glass doors facing north or west. However, I did have luck when running the antenna on to the edge of the porch and I think it was getting a signal from the south.
Another circumstance that makes me believe pointing to the southern sky is now needed is my home set up. Years ago, I ran an antenna onto my roof (through attic with 50ft Terk extension) and it has been working great for years. Three bars on my Sportster Replay unit. However, recently I am getting one bar at times and even "acquiring signal" messages displayed on the unit and periodic silence (but then comes back).
I can probably change the location of my home antenna, but just wondering if the southern sky is now the preferred direction to point an antenna?
