How to Connect XM Radio
 

I've put portable XM radios in several cars, but I can't see an easy way to get to the Fit's antenna connection. Have any of you installed an XM radio?

SilverEX15,

I installed a Roady2 and placed the XM antenna right in back of the normal radio antenna which works great.

I have a picture posted under my screen name on the forum in this link-

https://www.fitfreak.net/forums/3rd-...-2015-exl.html

I think you maybe talking about only using the existing antenna? Not sure if this helps :)

What I mean is getting the signal from the XM radio to the radio in the Fit. For other installations, I ran a wire from a modulator to the car antenna and from the modulator to the radio. How did you get the signal from the XM to the Fit?


Where did you mount the Roady2?

The Roady2 sendS the XM signal to the FM channel 88.5 and I then receive the XM stations over the car OEM radio. The Roady2 is not hard wired to the car unit. Hope this answers your question.

Cheers!

Thanks. I forgot about that, since I had always used a modulator.

First thing I did was replace the crappy head unit with an aftermarket one that supports sirrius/XM. However I later found that the quality of XM radio was pretty bad, I think it's about 48 kbps so I dropped it.

Interesting.....My XM Roady2 unit sounds great through my OEM radio...a vast improvement over just FM. FWIW...

According to reviews it varies a lot according to different factors. but here's one example: Either way it's all pretty heavily compressed, some XM stations were worse than others. Personally I have a 1200 watt system and C300 front speakers and a nice HU with time delay, XM sounds like crap on my setup.

Today I connected the radio and tuned it to send the XM signal to my car radio on 97.1. So far, so good. I have the XM antenna sitting on the dashboard.

Great! I installed my xm antenna (magnetic) right in back of my roof antenna and ran the wire hidden a the way to the front console where my Roady2 is. It made for a clean install. Just a thought. :)