XM Weather help

[Darren S]

Garmin support is closed till Monday. I installed a Garmin Area 510 with XM Weather yesterday in my -7.

The antennae was sitting on the glare shield. I also tried my new Zulu 2 for the first time. There was a lot of feedback in the headset. I thought it was the headset so I turned it way down. I now think it's the XM antennae.

Questions:

1. Do you guys mount the antennae externally?
2. What's a Ground Loop Isolator and where to get one if that's a solution? (the manual mentioned this)
3. Is there a way to Bluetooth the XM Radio or am I stuck with the cord?

Thanks,

Darren

[L.Adamson]

My XM weather antenna for the Garmin 496 & 696 has always been on the glareshield with no problem at all.

[Darren S]

Thanks for that. After work I'm heading out and going to try with my old faithful Zulu 1 and see. Maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree

Darren

[Brantel]

I have a 510 and the original Zulu's. No issues whatsoever. My antenna is on the glare shield.

[RV Jerry]

Dont know what you have for avionics but the fast proccesors in the efis units interferes with gps and xm signals. I have to mount antannaes 24-36 inches away from instrument panels

[Adam]

Any guys install there XM antanna under the cowling?

[N427EF]

Mine is under the cowling and I cannot receive service most of the time.
It's next to the GPS antena and it works fine.
I only subscribed to music and I am not 100% sure my reception problem is the antena. I am planning to relocate it to the top of the glareshield to see what happens.
I've been able to receive service for several hour uninterupted but the strange thing is, I lose service in the middle of a flight, flying straight and level in cruise.
Other times I simply don't have service on start up.

[Darren S]

My panel has an Advanced 3500 and Bendix/King KMD150.

My Engineer brother just told me a few things to try. He said the power cord to the cigarette lighter could be a cause or possibly the Ground is "dirty". He said to try the battery alone and see, if not then move the antennae.

So a couple of things to try. Thanks for the help.

Darren

[Darren S]

I like to update/conclude a thread I started in hopes of helping someone else one day.

Did a few things today at the hanger and it turns out that my brand spanking new Zulu 2 is the problem. No radio interference or squealing in the other headsets I tried. The power cord, XM antennae all produced no problem despite their placement.

Go figure !!

It's like a post I just finished reading on a rough running engine. The fella rebuilt his mags, changed the plugs and dang near rebuilt the engine trying to solve the roughness. Turned out that 2 of the brand new fine wire plugs he bought were faulty Harder one to solve.

Darren

[flyingriki]

Originally Posted by Darren S

It's like a post I just finished reading on a rough running engine. The fella rebuilt his mags, changed the plugs and dang near rebuilt the engine trying to solve the roughness. Turned out that 2 of the brand new fine wire plugs he bought were faulty :

Poor troubleshooting......