EightwoodDAB Car Aerial Antenna Splitter Amplifier - SMA/SMB to DIN Connector Universal Roof FM Antenna - 5M 16.4ft Cable for Radio Compatible With Blaupunkt Pioneer Alpine JVC

I tried several different DAB car aerials before this one: I tried a booster/splitter which attached to my factory installed aerial, a JVC aerial which was DAB only and a Celsus DAB/FM/AM aerial.This is the best of the lot!The splitter either didn't work or didn't boost the signal enough so I got nothing from it. By comparison, the JVC aerial was powered by my car radio's powered SMB aerial socket and gave fantastic DAB reception but I had no FM or AM reception. The Celsus gave very good DAB and FM reception but no AM at all and the DAB aerial didn't work from the powered SMB connection, it only worked when the power lead was connected to the battery.This one does everything I wanted from all those others! The DAB reception is as good as the JVC, DAB can be powered by the car radio's SMB connector and the FM/AM reception is the best I've ever had in the car (the power cable needs to be connected to the battery to get that). It took a while to get there but I finally found the DAB aerial I was looking for - I've never had a dropout on reception.The only tricky part was that the bottom of the aerial is not flat, there's a round section around the fixing bolt that was bigger than the square hole my old aerial used. The round section is not that deep (maybe 2-3mm), but it meant that the aerial didn't sit flat and I preferred not to drill out a bigger hole in my roof so I cut out some thin rubber matting to size in order to seal the bottom of the aerial and get it to sit properly on the roof. Also, the fixing bolt that pokes through the hole wasn't as long as on the old aerial and so it took a little frustration to get the nut started but once it was fitted, it has worked perfectly.

Bought this item as a last resort, but should have been my first go to!Don't bother with window stickers, or Antenna upgrade to your factory one as there no good.Fitting this one was a bit of a challenge, probably took me 2 hours in total. Its easy enough to pick up a live connection on the back of the radio once all cables rooted through headliner and trims into dash area.Step drill ideal to open up the antenna mounting hole on my Citroën Picasso. Make sure you paint any exposed metalwork before fitting the base in position...Connected everything up and got almost 30 DAB channel's almost immediately and 100% stable signal since. Would highly recommend this antenna system. I have a Pioneer head unit and it all works as I hoped it would and its a £200 mod to an older car...brings the radio bang upto date. The days of sketchy am radio 5 on a Saturday afternoon now a thing of the past!

Amazing aerial!I had one of the little stick-on windscreen aerials which was just OK in my driveway, but as soon as I drove out it was a case of squeaking and squawking from the DAB adaptor in the car. I have also tried those amplifier/splitters which just kill the signal, so this aerial was my last try to get DAB in my car.As my existing radio doesn’t have DAB I’m using a https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B074KY6XG1/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 adaptor which I can’t recommend highly enough if your car doesn’t have DAB on the radio - this little thing plays DAB (and DAB+ broadcasts), MP3’s from a microSD card and music, podcasts or whatever from your phone via Bluetooth! Brilliant!Anyway back to the aerial…Before I started what would be a long and laborious task of replacing the existing external aerial with this I thought it would be a good idea to give it a quick try rather than go the whole hog to find out it didn’t work. So I wired it up to the stereo, DAB adaptor and battery and was very, VERY pleasantly surprised. With the aerial lying on the front passenger seat I was getting 4 out of 4 bars on the signal meter of the DAB adaptor, something which I had never seen before - the most I’d previously seen was 1 bar at best!So that was a good sign. Next day I spent a couple of hours pulling off trim panels, head lining, removing the old aerial and screwing this one on, routing cables etc and was very pleasantly surprised with the result.Went out for a drive and the DAB was flawless! In areas where I’d got nothing before (almost everywhere around my town which is about 40 miles from the main DAB transmitter mast at Divis) I was getting mostly 4/4 signal level. Some areas/stations dropped to 1/4 but the sound never faltered. Not once! FM remained about the same and MW perhaps a smidgen less, although I can’t be absolutely sure to be honest, but I can still drive around listening to Manx Radio from the Isle of Man clearly on 1368kHz, which is a good test for me being bang in the middle of Northern Ireland.So money well spent!Very highly recommended if you’ve given up on the stick-on windscreen types of DAB aerial, and may be a lot easier for you to fit, depending on your car. I knew mine was going to be awkward but many people may be able to get at the base of the old aerial through an interior light aperture. Wish I had! Lol!

Good signal on both DAB and FM. Didn't quite fit the contour of the roof so I ended up using a bit of silicone around the edge after installing it to protect from the rain. Easier to install of you wrap the wires in some harness tape so that you just have to run a single strand through the trim rather than 3. Be extra careful when clipping trim panels back in, I wasn't the first time and managed to cut one of the wires and had to buy another to reinstall. I've added a 1amp fuse with a line coming off the ignition wire from the radio. All in all a good product if not fiddly to fit - would have been better to have shorter cables to the base that ran to the front of the car through extensions.

great product...tried that many aerials in my little Citroen c3 the stick on ones the aerial boosters none of them worked very well .so calling it a day and thought I'll put up with the hissing and crackle...then I read these reviews and thought pay that bit extra and can say I was not disappointed it works fantastic get all my FM stations crystal clear it was as big job to install correctly took me a day but the end result was worth it ..all in all very satisfied and would definitely recommend this aerial above all others...from a happy customer

Je n’ai pas encore eu le temps de la monter sur le toit, mais j’ai fait un test rapide à l’intérieur du véhicule. Déjà une excellente réception Dab+ avec réception de nombreuses radios. Mieux que l’antenne de pare-brise.Je referai un commentaire après installationdéfinitive.Après installation..Sur mon véhicule j’ai un trou carré et l’antenne est prévue pour un trou rond. Il faut donc adapter. J’ai simplement mis un joint silicone à la place du joint d’origine. Par contre je confirme, le signal est à fond en dab+ et la FM fonctionne très bien sur ma radio Android chinoise 👍

Habe die Antenne gegen die Standardantenne von meinem Opel Tigra getauscht.Seitdem viel besserer Empfang auf normalem Radio und ein Riesenplus beim Empfang bei DAB.Vorher viele Sörungen und jetzt einwandfreier Empfang.In allen Punkten eine klare Verbesserung.Würde ich wieder kaufen.

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Habe in ein Auto aus 2015 DAB+ nachgerüstet mit Scheibenantenne. In der Stadt ok aber nicht perfekt. Bin Pendler und fahre jeden Tag 40km über Land und 10km Stadt. Habe immer zwischen DAB+ und analog geschaltet. Mit der neuen Außenantenne 100% zufrieden keine Störungen mehr und von 40 Sender auf über 100.Wer richtig DAB+ hören will braucht eine Außenantenne.