A couple of weeks ago I bought a 2000 Jag XK8 convertible, which is a
beautiful car. It came with a built-in cell phone, which I removed, because
it is about 15 generations out of date. I also removed the trunk-mounted
antenna. I would now like to install my satellite radio (a Sirius Sportster)
adjacent to where the telephone was once installed. It would be very nice if
I could use the old cell phone antenna coax, which is still in place, to
connect the satellite radio antenna, which is trunk mounted, to the satellite
radio. However, the satellite radio antenna coax is different from standard
coax (it has a much smaller diameter) and it has a different connector. Does
anybody know if there is any reason which the existing coax could not be used,
and is anybody aware of an adapter that would connect my satellite radio
antenna coax to standard coax?
It also occurs to me that I could use the existing telephone/radio interface,
which allowed the cell phone to play through the stereo system, as an
interface for the satellite radio, rather than using the FM link. This way,
the radio controls that are installed on the car's steering wheel could be
used to select the satellite radio as an input source in place of the cell
phone. All I would need to do is to identify the appropriate audio cables in
the cell phone harness and connect these to the satellite audio output,
provided the audio levels can be matched. Does anyone have any experience of
doing this, or some words of wisdom (including "Don't do it!").
I bought the Jag after reading a Peter Eagan article in R&T in which he
pointed out that for $25K you could buy a nicely restored older LBC, or you
could buy an early XK8 with all the trimmings. This set me to thinking, and I
had a Taurus that needed to go, so I traded it on the XK. A lifelong dream
fulfilled!
Michael Marr
1960 TR3A
2000 Jag XK8
Naperville, IL
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