i found this to be pretty cool. My bike is getting serviced but I'm going to try it this weekend.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ks7NoK0A1GA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ks7NoK0A1GA
hide your antenna
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I did this when I first got my bike..works fine. I didn't hear anything good about the hidden fairing antenna and changing to a short antenna still leaves the antenna sticking out to run into. In my opinion, the cheap mods are the best mods because I did spend so much on the bike.
Well, I spent all my money getting the bike in the first place........
Not all of us around here make enough to support our bike habit on a regular basis.
Back on topic: I'm not really a fan of the huge rear antenna on mine either, but if I were to change mine, I'd probably just stick a shorty on it and call it done. But at least I know that there's options!
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I have the $69.95 H-D Hidden Antenna on my SG & I wish that I would have tried the cheap relocation way because in my opinion I wasted $70 buying the H-D antenna. I doesn't even work around town where I live.
http://www.harley-davidson.com/store/boom!-audio-hidden-am-fm-wb-antenna-pa-08-76000513--1
http://www.harley-davidson.com/store/boom!-audio-hidden-am-fm-wb-antenna-pa-08-76000513--1
I have the hinden antenna in the fairing. I'm fixing to put in a amp & saddlebag speakers. Does the amp interfere with this kind of antenna? Don't really like the long antenna that came with the bike. Nothing else my have to go with a short one.
I have the short antenna on mine. Works great I have never had a problem with reception. Looking at the video I wonder how the vibration would be against the frame, or bottom of tank. Good luck either way.
Just performed this re-routing of the stock antenna under the seat. It's an improvement over the stock one that I had to cut (about 7") to fit under my detachable Tour-Pak .
My '09 SG had a hidden antenna under the fairing, but it didn't work very well for those stations 20-30 miles away from home (all of them). I'm in a fairly rural and very HILLY/MOUNTAINOUS area. You flat-landers have all the luck in radio reception.
Not wanting to invest in another failed hidden antenna trial, I opted for this relocation under the seat. It isn't quite as good as the stock upright position, but much better than my previous attempts (cut stocker and under fairing hidden). I call it a win.
I didn't have much slack in the antenna cable, so I had to remove the cable from the hole in the bracket and I also had to bend the tab that holds the bracket in the correct upright position inorder to rotate the bracket to allow the antenna base/screw align towards the front of the bike so the antenna could point forward to go under the seat.
My '09 SG had a hidden antenna under the fairing, but it didn't work very well for those stations 20-30 miles away from home (all of them). I'm in a fairly rural and very HILLY/MOUNTAINOUS area. You flat-landers have all the luck in radio reception.
Not wanting to invest in another failed hidden antenna trial, I opted for this relocation under the seat. It isn't quite as good as the stock upright position, but much better than my previous attempts (cut stocker and under fairing hidden). I call it a win.
I didn't have much slack in the antenna cable, so I had to remove the cable from the hole in the bracket and I also had to bend the tab that holds the bracket in the correct upright position inorder to rotate the bracket to allow the antenna base/screw align towards the front of the bike so the antenna could point forward to go under the seat.
