Antenna delete.

[Gron86]

Deleted the am/fm antenna on my JL. Never liked the look of antennas on any car/truck. Reminds me of an RC car.

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[DesertsJL]

You have great style. I hate the antenna hanging out there.

 

[WranglerMan]

What are you using for radio reception

 

[Gron86]

I rarely listen to AM/FM radio. Mostly Use Sirius/pandora or Apple Music.

 

[DesertsJL]

I’m using SiriusXM or I’m using my phone with Pandora or Amazon Prime.

 

[rohdawg]

That. Is. Fking. Brilliant.

 

[Eric552]

How did you go about this? How difficult was it to do? Very interested in this..

 

[Rhinebeck01]

@Gron86

Unfortunately, the day may come when you truly regret doing this.

In times of local disaster ..... fire, flood, etc. sometimes a lets say life line is the local AM/FM channel giving you info on how to get out of town.... which direction the fire or tornado is coming from, large hail coming, where to go for supplies like food and water.... where to go to find medical, local news related to disaster... etc. ,etc..

Forum member's that have never had to use am/FM in say disaster times, etc. don't realize just how important and... just what having AM/FM can mean to you in bad times.

More often then not good old local, AM/FM is still working when Internet, XM and such are .......

Were my Sons to tell me they were deleting their AM/FM on their vehicle, I would tell them are you frigging stupid or what. Sure it looks cool but doing so is pound foolish.

For the record, I am an avid Xm user.. rarely use the AM/FM ...

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[JeepRN]

@Gron86

Unfortunately, the day may come when you truly regret doing this.

In times of local disaster ..... fire, flood, etc. sometimes a lets say life line is the local AM/FM channel giving you info on how to get out of town.... which direction the fire or tornado is coming from, large hail coming, where to go for supplies like food and water.... where to go to find medical, local news related to disaster... etc. ,etc..

Forum member's that have never had to use am/FM in say disaster times, etc. don't realize just how important and... just what having AM/FM can mean to you in bad times.

More often then not good old local, AM/FM is still working when Internet, XM and such are .......

Were my Sons to tell me they were deleting their AM/FM on their vehicle, I would tell them are you frigging stupid or what. Sure it looks cool but doing so is pound foolish.

For the record, I am an avid Xm user.. rarely use the AM/FM ...

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Part of any emergency kit/vehicle EDC should include a weather radio. They are cheap (less then a stubby antenna) and will directly alert you of all of this information you quoted above.

 

[Guy N Cognito]

Part of any emergency kit/vehicle EDC should include a weather radio. They are cheap (less then a stubby antenna) and will directly alert you of all of this information you quoted above.

Exactly. If you’re REALLY wanting to be prepared, then you’re “friggin stupid” to be relying on FM...

 

[Rhinebeck01]

Exactly. If you’re REALLY wanting to be prepared, then you’re “friggin stupid” to be relying on FM...

I agree with you on this!

Reality is though, for the most part, the masses aren't prepared and will / do count on AM/ FM for info when chitt hits the fan... especially chitt in their local region.

 

[DesertsJL]

@Gron86

Unfortunately, the day may come when you truly regret doing this.

In times of local disaster ..... fire, flood, etc. sometimes a lets say life line is the local AM/FM channel giving you info on how to get out of town.... which direction the fire or tornado is coming from, large hail coming, where to go for supplies like food and water.... where to go to find medical, local news related to disaster... etc. ,etc..

Forum member's that have never had to use am/FM in say disaster times, etc. don't realize just how important and... just what having AM/FM can mean to you in bad times.

More often then not good old local, AM/FM is still working when Internet, XM and such are .......

Were my Sons to tell me they were deleting their AM/FM on their vehicle, I would tell them are you frigging stupid or what. Sure it looks cool but doing so is pound foolish.

For the record, I am an avid Xm user.. rarely use the AM/FM ...

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My phone goes bonkers for any major weather alert. Pretty sure that I won’t need the FM radio.

 

[NavyVet1959]

I figure that the antenna tells me when I might be getting into a low vertical clearance area and should reconsider whether I really want to go there. Good for parking garages.

 

[Shaved Ice]

My phone goes bonkers for any major weather alert. Pretty sure that I won’t need the FM radio.

When a natural disaster happens, the power to cell phone towers typically doesn’t work or the event knocks the towers out of alignment. Either of these will render your phone useless.

 

[Guy N Cognito]

When a natural disaster happens, the power to cell phone towers typically doesn’t work or the event knocks the towers out of alignment. Either of these will render your phone useless.

But it somehow doesn’t knock out the power to radio stations??

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