Bought a new CVO Limited a little over a week ago and the only issue I'm experiencing is with the SAT radio reception. The signal strength and reception quality shifts depending on my direction of travel and I think I may have found the culprit... poor placement of the SAT antenna. A friend of mine provided me the XM module install instructions from HDMC (see attached) and as it's depicted on the second page, the SAT antenna gets tucked up near the back wall area of the fairing housing and next to some sort of housing/obstruction. In fact, it looks like it sits behind a bundle of electrical wiring that appears to run directly in front of where the antenna would sit.
In my 2013 FLHTCUSE8, the SAT antenna was placed up high above any obstructions inside the housing and had a clear line of reception to the SAT signal; thus, I had "zero" issues with the SAT radio reception in that bike - no matter which direction I traveled. Did not expect such lousy reception in the new 2014 model.
I'm going to get with my tech and see about moving the SAT antenna out away from the obstructed location and out into the open under the fairing and see if that improves reception strength and alleviates the "direction" factor in order to listen to the SAT radio.
Will follow-up with the results after the antenna gets moved.
I followed your instructions word for word and pic for pic on my 14 CVO Limited. It works flawlessly. Yes you have your sitting under an overpass outage, but I have that in my car. You help mark a huge frustration off my list!
I'm a lady and it took me 5 minutes to get the fairing off with putting a pair of fuzzy winter house socks over the aux lights, and less than 10 minutes to get it lined up and on again once the relocation was complete. I did in the meantime spend 2 hours going to Lowes, home Depot and 4 other local hardware stores looking for the proper bracket. That was a joke. I was so frustrated I prayed... lol Then, I look at your pic again and (no joke) God showed me that it was literally a window shade bracket that you would use when installing window treatments in your home. I went back to home Depot, went to the window coverings section. I asked if they sold them separately, they said no, but they had a bucket full of window shade parts and pick what I needed for free. Boom! There it was! The U shaped bracket is only about an inch squared. I use a magnet in their department to make sure it was really metal; it was! I was out of there and home again. 10 mins later I was on a ride down my neighborhood tree lined street with signal!
I would have taken a pic, but mine now looks exactly like yours! Road Runner, thanks again for the great write-up! :
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