XM Weather / XM radio

[Beechjetr]

Does anyone know if the XM weather antenna for a ProLine 21 is the same antenna as XM radio for the pax in the back?

 

[400A]

Does anyone know if the XM weather antenna for a ProLine 21 is the same antenna as XM radio for the pax in the back?

From what Beech told me about our Premier on order, the antenna is the same, but you need an additional receiver. The way I understand it, the radio receiver is not part of the IFIS.

 

[Beechjetr]

Thanks. We have a 900XP coming with XM weather, but not the radio. Antenna mounting seems to be a big deal in the Hawkers (200 man hours to drop the headliner).

 

[SabreFlyR]

Just added XM radio to our previously installed XM Weather and no antenna change was required.

 

[LJ45]

The XM weather receiver should have a feed thru for the radio signal. The feed thru signal goes to a separate XM radio receiver. One of our FMS/GPS antennas was replaced with a dual output GPS and XM antenna. Then, It feeds the signal to the XM weather receiver and on to the XM radio receiver .
This is how it is installed on our airplane.

 

[wtrav8r]

Just added XM radio to our previously installed XM Weather and no antenna change was required.

Funny this thread just came up. Do you mind sharing what was done to have XM Radio available?

We currently have a CJ3 with XM Weather and I know our owner may be interested in having XM Radio.

Who did your work? We are up in the Northeast

Thank you!!!

 

[SabreFlyR]

Funny this thread just came up. Do you mind sharing what was done to have XM Radio available?

We currently have a CJ3 with XM Weather and I know our owner may be interested in having XM Radio.

Who did your work? We are up in the Northeast

Thank you!!!

We had the XM bluetooth remote radio installed.

The receiver mounts next to the weather receiver with an input coax connected to it from the weather receivers output connector as LJ45 states above. Then a coax is run into the cabin and connected to a small bluetooth antenna that can be hidden, behind the side panel in our case. The radio operates using a bluetooth remote and the sound is via wireless headsets.

We had Jet Works in Denton, Tx do our install, but any good avionics shop can handle this job.