Replacement Antenna

[DocHoliday]

I heard the Sharks don't work with the hoop spoilers. Anyone tried an amplified "Shark Fin" antenna? How well do the glass mounted ones work? For some reason Denver stations have the worst reception on the face of the planet.

I can second this. I have a shark attack and it does not work at all. I have a hoop as well.

[Incog]

I posted the question to the Kenwood forums and one guy said it's a feature since my unit is a GPS navigation with Navteq Traffic. It turns out the Navteq uses the FM radio to get the traffic updates. I then tried disabling the traffic feature but still no joy; the antenna raises on all modes except standby. A toggle switch may be the only solution if I want the antena to stay down while listening to the iPod.

This kinda surprises me. I looked up the wiring config for your head unit and there is a power antenna wire (most decks just have a 'remote' wire that provides power to a power antenna or an amp, usually blue/white wire where the power antenna wire is just blue). I would think having those separate would keep it down when on iPod or whatever. That's the main benefit of having a separate wire for the antenna.

I thought this kind of thing would be an issue the last time I bought a new deck. I started trying to figure out which decks had that extra power ant. wire, but I decided it was actually better to just hook the antenna to the 'remote' wire to raise the antenna once when I turned the thing on, rather than having it go up/down every time I changed to a non-AM/FM source. Saves wear and tear IMO.

[reallyxxxxxxloud]

Again I'll state you will not find a better antenna. I have picked up radio stations that start to die 50 km's back with a factory antenna.

Try to get one of these - I sell a shit load of them and they are unreal...

Blaupunkt Auto Fun Antenna