Satellite Radio Reception poor

[hahnmgh63]

For anyone of you with the factory Satellite radio and who live in fairly wooded areas is your Satellite reception in the Cayenne poor? Mine is a '06 CTTS and it cuts out way more than in my 2003 Audi, as in a 40 minute drive to work my Audi might loose reception for maybe a total of 1min or less and during the same drive the Cayenne looses it for probably 10min on the drive. Any chance Porsche has an updated Antenna that has improved reception? My Audi has the Sharkfin roof antenna and parked in the garage with the garage door open the Nav and the Satellite radio will get reception.

[wvicary]

The only thing that seems to effect my Sat radio is trees, it works great in every other circumstance, even inside a steel framed building where other Sat systems have failed. There is no fix that I know of.

[mudman2]

The antenna at the back is predominantly a vertical coverage same as addons,these have almost no sidescan capability so overhead obstructions like tress cause issues.. The Shark Fin has sidescan capability hence the difference in reception.

Mine is not bad at all, much better than the kenwood addon on my beta

[hahnmgh63]

Thanks all. I guess that's what I get for living in this part of the country. I'll keep XM in the Audi but probably let it go in the Cayenne. I was hoping that Porsche maybe had a retrofitable newer Antenna.