Need more powerful antenna or something.

[Domino]

The way my office is I can't really point my antenna in the proper direction. The best reception I can get is 1 bar, and thats by hanging the antenna out the window... and I get constant hiss/silence/nosignal. Is there some kind of booster I can buy? Wasn't there supposed to be an office repeater coming out? Thanks.

[GravyMaster]

Have you done the 2-0-7-XM Button trick to find the best possible place for your antenna?

[superXMfreak]

If you are getting one bar that's something and usually means with a little tweaking of the antenna placement you'll get two or three bars. You can't just leave the antenna dangling in the wind outside the window like a limp blood penis. You will need to use the 2-0-7 diags screen and tweak the placement while watching the BER until you hit the sweet spot.

I spent a couple of hours moving my antenna fractions of an inch at a time until found the sweet spot (a very low BER %. Less than 1%)

This may be handy:
http://www.xm411.com/phpbb/satpoint.php

What the 2-0-7 screens mean (http://www.xm411.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?p=7365)

[rmathus]

There's an antenna amplifier (http://www.myradiostore.us/antennas-cables/for-pcr/as-65-75-foot-amplified-antenna.html), but they aren't so cheap. I'd suggest moving the antenna ever so slightly and constantly monitoring the 2-0-7 menu until you find the sweet spot.

Many people in office buildings found it helpful if they had a metal file cabinet and put the antenna on top of that - it seemed to amplify the signal a bit (or enough to make the drop outs minimal).

[Domino]

The problem is that I am in the middle office on the wrong side of the building. Right now it's sort of outside wedged (the bottom part) under a shingle on the roof below. That is how I got 1 bar. To get more I'd be risking a broken neck. I might have to get that amplifier thing? I got the 207 screen up but to me it looks like Chinese. I'll read up more about it. Thanks.

Edited to add:
Will the new Satellite that XM is launching help out the East Coast?

[rmathus]

Will the new Satellite that XM is launching help out the East Coast?

Nope, it won't help in reception. It's being positioned at the same angle as XM-2 (Roll) was.

[GravyMaster]

The problem is that I am in the middle office on the wrong side of the building. Right now it's sort of outside wedged (the bottom part) under a shingle on the roof below. That is how I got 1 bar. To get more I'd be risking a broken neck. I might have to get that amplifier thing? I got the 207 screen up but to me it looks like Chinese. I'll read up more about it. Thanks.

Edited to add:
Will the new Satellite that XM is launching help out the East Coast?
You should really, really try the 2-0-7-XM Button suggestion. Keep messing with it and you should eventually get a very good signal.

[GregFarz78]

I have the same problem sometimes, unfortunately with a terresterial signal its hit or miss sometimes one little thing gets in the way and it can hurt the signal.