Why do wrx imports have the aerials on the roof ie bee sting

[Bouncer]

Well mine has (a 95) and reception's crap compared to it being at the side of the roof on the UK model, is there anything I can do apart from drilling new holes and getting the proper side mount

[Miggs]

theres some bee stings that are amplified, you could find and use one of them types, basically the base has the normal aerial coax on it and 1 other wire which you wire to the electric aerial out on the Stereo or the amp remote wire, any wire that has an acc+ feed

 

or do what i have done and buy a DAB radio

[stants]

Do you have the band adaptor connected to the back of the head unit ?

I may be wrong but when i put new radio in the eunos i had to attach a mw/lw band adaptor to pick up uk fm freq as the japanese don't pump out as much wattage when it comes to radio reception

I may be talking absloute b******s as it was 4 yeas ago when i changed it