Tucker2930 Posted April 22, 2006 Share Posted April 22, 2006 I mounted my Sirius radio on my R1200Rt today and anytime the radio is on my V1 is showing one radar behind me. Turn off the radio all is good. Anyone had this problem? Link to comment
johnt650 Posted April 23, 2006 Share Posted April 23, 2006 Only with my wife's Motorola cell phone, shows the same problem riding in the cage. Link to comment
John Ranalletta Posted April 23, 2006 Share Posted April 23, 2006 Get used to it. Valentine says TADT. Mine alarms when too close to the XM antenna; when my Garmin SPIII boots up or when I try to dim the backlight on the SPIII. It's aggravating as hell. On the bike, the XM antenna has to be located on the back of the bike. Link to comment
smiller Posted April 23, 2006 Share Posted April 23, 2006 Probably a poorly shielded local oscillator or IF in the satellite radio receiver is being picked up by the V1. Not likely much you can do but move the Sirius unit to another location or try a different model satellite receiver. Link to comment
ShovelStrokeEd Posted April 23, 2006 Share Posted April 23, 2006 Mine does no such thing and my XM antenna is about 2" in front of and to the left of my V1. It is more likely something in the receiver causing the problem. Harmonics in the gigahertz range from one of the internal amplifiers. Try moving the receiver to a different location. Link to comment
Tucker2930 Posted April 23, 2006 Author Share Posted April 23, 2006 Thanks for the tips. Will try moving antenna to back of bike first to see if that helps. Link to comment
John Ranalletta Posted April 23, 2006 Share Posted April 23, 2006 How I wish that were the case, but it is not. THe V1 sits about 12" in front of the XM receiver, but if the antenna is placed on the front of the bike, it "pulses" the V1; so, I velcro it to one of the side cases. Same in the car. It cannot be near the dash with the V1. I called Valentine and sent a video of the problem and their response was "move the antenna". Same with the SPIII, but, man is it a problem to have the GPS in the rear window. Link to comment
Tucker2930 Posted April 23, 2006 Author Share Posted April 23, 2006 Bought another car kit today. Tried the antenna that came with it and the problem is now gone. Go figure same antennas. Got lucky thought I was going to have to mount the antenna somewhere on the rear. Link to comment
ShovelStrokeEd Posted April 24, 2006 Share Posted April 24, 2006 The antenna does have some amplifying and possibly some frequency conversion circuitry inside. Probably just a bad ant. As I said, mine sits about 2" away from the front of my V1 and never a problem. Now if I could just eliminate the false laser signal generated by some GM brake lights, I would be happy. Link to comment
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