I have a question about Sirius radio antennas. It seems like a lot of the older receivers I've run across have had two-wire antennas hooked into an inline "automatic level control" box. Just recently I put an older (ca. 2002) Panasonic CR-SRT100 Sirius receiver with such an antenna in my car. I didn't want to use the stock antenna (Panasonic CL-SRA100) since it was kind of big, so I hooked it up to a newer, one-wire Sirius low profile (model 14125) antenna.
The ALC box is just a little inline contraption with two SMB connectors (dark green and light green) on the antenna side and two (white and blue) on the receiver side. If I connect the new antenna to the light green jack on the ALC box and leave the other one open everything works fine, but the receiver keeps popping up an "ANTENNA ERROR" message. Whatever error it's indicating isn't really affecting anything, but the message is kind of annoying. I was wondering if someone makes an adaptor for these. Do you know what the dark green coax and ALC box do? Could I dispense with the ALC box altogether? I'm kind of afraid to try it since this radio was pretty expensive and I don't want to fry anything.
The ALC box is just a little inline contraption with two SMB connectors (dark green and light green) on the antenna side and two (white and blue) on the receiver side. If I connect the new antenna to the light green jack on the ALC box and leave the other one open everything works fine, but the receiver keeps popping up an "ANTENNA ERROR" message. Whatever error it's indicating isn't really affecting anything, but the message is kind of annoying. I was wondering if someone makes an adaptor for these. Do you know what the dark green coax and ALC box do? Could I dispense with the ALC box altogether? I'm kind of afraid to try it since this radio was pretty expensive and I don't want to fry anything.
