Sirius Issues...

[vagebadger]

2007 A4 2.0T Sedan
Symphony II+ Head unit
Sirius Receiver 8E0 035 593 D/8E0 057 593 D

Using the great DIY for Sirius install at audidiy.com i bought and installed the sirius unit. with a slight problem.

First i checked and moved the CAM because the head unit said "NO SAT"

My car had a little slide out shelf in the trunk. I slid it out and the wires were bundled right behind it.....how easy is that. I connected up all the wires but 1
There was on only 1 green sat antenna wire....no brown. I connected the system up with on the green and the stereo says "Antenna" and no audio. Occasionally it will show the weather channel (184) but never a sound.

Then i read somewhere that i may need a splitter.

To be completely sure i tore into the trunk and searched for that brown antenna wire...Nothing!


So i thought i'd ask. Do i just need a splitter? or another sat antenna? Any thoughts?

[vagebadger]

so i did some research and found that i may need a satellite antenna splitter. I had some scrap sirius antennas laying around and just spliced them together.

and what do ya know...it works. I get the sirius menu and the phone number scrolling across the screen on ch 184....but (there always seems to be a but)

i dont have any audio on channel 184 (and i believe i should). Before i activate it i was just checking to see if and why there isn't any audio.




thanks

[AudiA4b6US]

Did you install an iPod adapter or remove any connector from the back of the radio?

[vagebadger]

well i searched and searched and couldn't find any logical reason for the sound to be off... So i called Sirius and activated the receiver...and bingo! Sound



Thanks for your help

[CaptDistraction]

same issue here, I had to use a splitter in reverse (with a few vw wire parts) to combine my 2wire antenna to the newer style 1wire tuner. It didn't give audio until activated, and it works fine.

Only trick will be to try going under a bridge and see if there's a long/short interuption (if I remember correctly, the 2nd wire was for repeaters on the ground).