It's probably a magnetic mount with the wire passing into the car via a left hand window.
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What is this antenna/sensor doing on this Model 3?
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two things:
1) that's not a satellite radio antenna.
2) you can install satellite radio with the antenna inside the car, since the roof is glass it will work just fine.
Kilotango74
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That is what puzzles me the most. I drove behind the car for a good 30 minutes and I even moved closer to the divider a couple of times to see the setup a bit better. I was 100% expecting to see cables going through the rear window. Nope. Whatever it is, it was cleanly attached to the roof, no cables around.
Here’s an example of a ham antenna from back when. Installing A Glass Mount Ham Antenna
No idea if that’s what we have here but seems like a similar idea from what we can see from the pics. RF through the glass is quite doable as long as you have a way to adjust the transmitter VSWR (from a ham back in the day, haven’t used it in decades lol). Commercial non-ham transmitter equipment may not like it since you can’t adjust things. Receivers should be fine as it’s just a weaker antenna.
No idea if that’s what we have here but seems like a similar idea from what we can see from the pics. RF through the glass is quite doable as long as you have a way to adjust the transmitter VSWR (from a ham back in the day, haven’t used it in decades lol). Commercial non-ham transmitter equipment may not like it since you can’t adjust things. Receivers should be fine as it’s just a weaker antenna.
Rothgarr
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Oh, I wasn't suggesting it was the same thing -- it just reminded me of that product from decades ago.I was thinking of that... but who would know or care today?
SammichLover
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I was thinking of that... but who would know or care today?
If only they knew how much attention they were getting!
Looks like this one, but I’m guessing 2m or 440
Fred
Uniden BATG0481001 Model AT218 800MHz Scanner Antenna Fits with Most of Handheld Scanners, For the Majority of the Handheld Scanners https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001JT1NAC/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_.yzPDbBP0FG7J
Fred
Uniden BATG0481001 Model AT218 800MHz Scanner Antenna Fits with Most of Handheld Scanners, For the Majority of the Handheld Scanners https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001JT1NAC/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_.yzPDbBP0FG7J
How can you tell with such certainty?
All we can see is the "whip". It's a rubber ducky ... yet you can tell what frequency it's tuned to?
Are you the driver?
XLR82XS
D M C
How do you know that?
Esp. as you're in SWFL and this thread is about the west coast?
So, for laypeople... this would be so the car can operate within the premises of the airport (runways and the like) and get directions from the control tower?
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