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Your spelling of antenna is correct. As to your question, sadly, no. On Star is a combination of a GPS receiver with a cell phone, and some integrated telemetry and control systems. The antenna needed for cell phone, is different than that needed for GPS, which is again different than that needed for Satellite radio. This is because they use different frequency bands, and the antennas are generally not wide band enough to support all services on a single antenna. Cell = 0.9,1.8 GHz, satellite radio is 2.3GHz, and GPS is 1.2,1.5GHz Not to mention the fact that the cell phone has to transmit, and could overwhelm the front end of the satellite radio receiver if it's not designed properly. Actually, this is changing over time as very wide band antennas for this exact purpose are coming onto the market. We may eventually see systems for vehicles which integrate all three and use a single, very wide band antenna. For now,,though, the bottom line is that you need a new antenna for satellite radio.
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