Satellite Reception with Nissan tuner/6disc

mdaugherty · Apr 20th, 2006, 01:57 AM

I am having trouble with reception after installing my new Nissan sirius tuner with stock 6disc radio. Reception is spotty. Sirius replied to my email and instructed me to tune to another local FM frequency not being used by a local station. Huh? What does FM have to do with the Nissan tuner that is directly plugged into the wire harness? Are they high or am I stupid?
Mike D

msubullyfan · Apr 20th, 2006, 05:37 AM

No, it's them. They were assuming you were using a plug-and-play kit (like a Delphi Roady or something).

Not sure how to help you from just what you put in your post. Give us more info -- antenna location, etc.

Danmuzicman · Apr 20th, 2006, 06:55 AM

i am guessing its cuz your CD changer has a FM modulator and the sat is a fm transmiter, the modulator takes over the radio station outpowering the signal from the transmiter. make sure your CD changer can be tunred off. did you tag it to constant or ignition? you can only have one or the other on. you can always get the direct connect FM mod for the sat, but it may not work if you have two FM modulators on at the same time. thier both competing for the same airspace. . or if your HU has an aux in or can be made into one use that. if you can on the sirus box go into the FM frequencies and change it to the 101.1 channels or higher. i am guessing your CD changer has to be tuned into something like 88.1 or 88.5 or something like that. that way you increase the distance that they hav eto compete for.

msubullyfan · Apr 20th, 2006, 09:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Danmuzicman

i am guessing its cuz your CD changer has a FM modulator and the sat is a fm transmiter, the modulator takes over the radio station outpowering the signal from the transmiter. make sure your CD changer can be tunred off. did you tag it to constant or ignition? you can only have one or the other on. you can always get the direct connect FM mod for the sat, but it may not work if you have two FM modulators on at the same time. thier both competing for the same airspace. . or if your HU has an aux in or can be made into one use that. if you can on the sirus box go into the FM frequencies and change it to the 101.1 channels or higher. i am guessing your CD changer has to be tuned into something like 88.1 or 88.5 or something like that. that way you increase the distance that they hav eto compete for.

No, he has the Nissan Sirius unit that connects directly to the factory 6-disc changer.

Danmuzicman · Apr 21st, 2006, 08:36 AM

lemme check and see if nissan used a FM or a cd changer control, what year is your truck, some older nissans and toyoata and honda used a factory FM mod instead of a CD changer control.

mdaugherty · Apr 21st, 2006, 02:26 PM

05 Nismo. I think the error is with sirius. I am going to move my anntenae away from the cargo light and see what happens.

Danmuzicman · Apr 26th, 2006, 08:47 AM

did it work?

mdaugherty · Apr 30th, 2006, 12:14 AM

Haven't moved the antennae yet. Thinking that the wire might have a break in it somewhere. Have heard that can happen.

Danmuzicman · Apr 30th, 2006, 08:31 AM

if you broke the atenna then it wouldnt work at all. the unit would say "no attenna"

mdaugherty · May 1st, 2006, 12:20 AM

Not a total break in the line, maybe just hanging on or a bad connection at the receiver. Makes no sense to me why it drops out. I am trying to figure out if I can consistently make it drop in certain places, but I can barely stand to listen to it that way and I just end up switching over to a CD. Lame...
Mike D

Danmuzicman · May 1st, 2006, 07:56 AM

you rarley, i mean very rarley patialy break the line, the atenna wire is about the with of a human hair inside the sheath. ok are you running the sat radio threw your stock cd changer or along side it? something isnt adding up

mdaugherty · May 2nd, 2006, 12:17 AM

I just heard that breakage of the wire is common and antennae life is often only one to three years. Stock premium six disc changer with Nissan Sirius tuner plugged right into the wire harnes. Nissan antennae (not through the glass). Like I said, signal drops fairly often anywhere from half a second to more than a minute. I still havent pulled the panel to check the antennae connection. that is about all I Can think of at this point.

msubullyfan · May 2nd, 2006, 07:03 AM

You're not sitting next to buildings, driving under bridges, or around tall trees when this happens, are you? Here's a couple of things I've noticed:

If you're next to a building on the south side of it, you'll lose signal. There's a McDonald's near my house that will make me lose the signal whenever I pull up to the drive-through window.

There's a stretch of Interstate I drive every day that has very tall trees on the side of the road and the median. Whenever I go under a tree that hangs over the highway, I'll get static for a few second.

Like the previous poster, I'm skeptical it's a problem with the antenna wiring.

mdaugherty · May 4th, 2006, 02:46 AM

I have lost signal in areas where I had to question interference, for instance along side a semi, in a slight valley on the interestate (very questionable), or in the far right lane on the interstate near a sound wall. With my Alpine system, I only lost signal under tunnels, overpasses, etc...it was very obvious.