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The Artilleryman

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Where is the best place to get advice/purchase an FM/DAB radio aerial?

As our base is a Peugeot Boxer with the standard aerial in the N/S mirror and mirror guards fitted, radio is useless.
Pioneer AVIC EVO1 DT sat nav
 
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The Artilleryman said:
Where is the best place to get advice/purchase an FM/DAB radio aerial?

As our base is a Peugeot Boxer with the standard aerial in the N/S mirror and mirror guards fitted, radio is useless.
Pioneer AVIC EVO1 DT sat nav
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The advice might be as simple as fitting an aerial as high up as possible sitting on a decent ground plane.

The difficult bit is doing that on a mainly plastic MH.

I put an active shark fin aerial in a metal box sitting on the awning box. The bother was routing the cable down to the radio.

But it works very well !
 
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Had many attempts to improve the wing mirror aerial including a good whip mounted on the drivers side wing and windscreen dab aerial but nothing worked well.
So I bought an amplified dab/vhf one from dab on wheels and as others have said mount it up on the roof so it has a good ground plane.
I drilled quite a large hole for the cables but put the aerial on a covering plate well stuck down to the roof. Yes it was a nuisance getting the cables to the radio over the drivers side but the result is pretty well solid dab reception all over UK on the main channels. Only occasionally does Boom radio drop out!
hope this helps
Mike
 
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Never bothered with over-the-air radio. Dab in UK is pathetic mono with very low broadcast power so patchy at best.
Online internet music and radio stations are far superior - listen to your local radio from 1000 miles away, in stereo!
 
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huck999 said:
Never bothered with over-the-air radio. Dab in UK is pathetic mono with very low broadcast power so patchy at best.
Online internet music and radio stations are far superior - listen to your local radio from 1000 miles away, in stereo!
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Not interested in music or chat, but traffic reports are very useful. Especially as we normally tow a twin axle trailer, so 3 point turns are not easy.

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I used a windscreen sticker type DAB aerial in my last van. It worked pretty well. But only after I filed off a bit of paint under the ground point. No holes required. All the cabling easily fitted inside the a pillar trim.
 
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When I had a new Kenwood DAB radio fitted thy used a windscreen stick-on type. Been fine for several years now.
 
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Sandancers said:
I put an active shark fin aerial in a metal box sitting on the awning box. The bother was routing the cable down to the radio.
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OMG that brought back memories of my early illegal CB days. A car battery running a CB radio with a dv27 arial on a biscuit tin near the front window :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

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Badknee said:
OMG that brought back memories of my early illegal CB days. A car battery running a CB radio with a dv27 arial on a biscuit tin near the front window :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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10-4 Plastic Chicken!
Remember it very well with a “Naughty 40”, then got a dual band FM rig and one of those anoyying “Roger Bleep” microphones.
10-10 till we do it again😂😂😂
 
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