DAB Radio Antenna for X5

[allisong]

I have an X5 (4.6is) with TV and NAV and DSP, I have the Intravee II fitted for iPod, AUX and CD changer. Recently I came by an alpine TUA-T100DAB tuner unit that also work perfectly with the Intravee II and gives me 30+ digital radio channels. Currently it works with a piece of wire attached as an antenna.

Now the challenge, the TUA unit uses SMB connectors and I need to find an aerial solution without mounting a roof aerial. I have available the orginal TV aerial amps and radio amps. I would like to somehow use an internal aerial.

The issue is that DAB transmits in Europe in the Band III space (220Mhz or so).

Not sure how to do this, anyone else tried?

Geoff.

[UKenGB]

Ha, I'm in exactly the same position. I'm looking for a DAB aerial solution for my Alpine TUA-T100DAB, which of course is to work with the very excellent Intravee (why use anything else:-)

Like you, I don't want any external mount and the best I've come up with is the Bosch/Blaupunkt Autofun internal glass mount kit. I'm thinking of mounting it on one of the rear side windows. I reckon this would be the best 'internal' solution.

The other idea that intrigues me is to use an external one but mounted somewhere hidden - in the rear bumper for example. But that would require it to be horizontal and I believe DAB is vertically polarised and so a vertical aerial would work best.

Of course, if you already found a solution, please let me know what you did. Anyone else have any suggestions, please pitch in.

[RichardP1]

On my E46 I used an SMB splitter (T piece) and connected one of the TV antena to the TUA-T100DAB with a smb-smb cable. TV reception does not apear to be effected (even the Digital stations come in the same with or without the DAB connected) and the DAB reception is pretty good although not perfect (but better than an 'AutoFun' that I tried by a mile, the JVC version was about the same as using the OEM TV antena), it is 100% stealth though!

[UKenGB]

Originally Posted by RichardP1

On my E46 I used an SMB splitter (T piece) and connected one of the TV antena to the TUA-T100DAB with a smb-smb cable. TV reception does not apear to be effected (even the Digital stations come in the same with or without the DAB connected) and the DAB reception is pretty good although not perfect (but better than an 'AutoFun' that I tried by a mile, the JVC version was about the same as using the OEM TV antena), it is 100% stealth though!

Good info about the AutoFun, I thought that was supposed to work pretty well, but luckily I haven't purchased one yet. I guess I'll try using the VHF aerial first and see how that goes.

Thanks Richard.