Forest River Forester 3051S microphone in windshield

[BIKERMHA]

We have a 2016 Forest River Forester 3051S and there are a couple of items in the drivers windshield that I don't know what they are for.
There is a small square black box in the lower left the windshield and then there is what appears to be some sort of microphone in the top left corner of the windshield.
Does anyone know what these might be?

Thanks.

[Tombsy]

The box is possibly an XM radio antenna or a gps antenna, the microphone is for your Bluetooth hands free phone calls.
What kind of dash radio do you have?

[bikendan]

Moved thread from the General Community Discussion section to the Forester and Sunseeker sub-forum since the OP is asking for model-specific information.

[BehindBars]

Originally Posted by BIKERMHA

We have a 2016 Forest River Forester 3051S and there are a couple of items in the drivers windshield that I don't know what they are for.
There is a small square black box in the lower left the windshield and then there is what appears to be some sort of microphone in the top left corner of the windshield.
Does anyone know what these might be?

Thanks.

Does your coach have the blind spot monitoring system? Our Sunseeker, built in 2019 has it. There is a square black box on the front left corner of the dash by the windshield. It is a GPS sensor for the blind spot system, so that the system enables itself when the vehicle is going over a certain speed. My dealer claimed it was a satellite radio antenna, but that was not correct.

Ours has a microphone too, that is tied into the Sony dash radio.

We don’t use either of these features. I disabled the blind spot monitoring system.

[BIKERMHA]

Originally Posted by Tombsy

The box is possibly an XM radio antenna or a gps antenna, the microphone is for your Bluetooth hands free phone calls.
What kind of dash radio do you have?

We have a Jensen radio. You are probably correct that it is the XM radio antenna. We don't use the XM radio. Also don't use the Bluetooth hand free phone. Not sure how anyone could hear a phone call with the noise in the cab. Thanks for the info.

[brucemc]

Our (dead) in dash Jensen had GPS, so the antenna on the dash is the GPS receiver. A second antenna for the XM satellite is on the roof at the top of the forward support for the awning. The mic is, indeed, for Bluetooth phone.

This is a horrible unit. The maps were completely unreadable, particularly underway. They could be updated for a fee, and were based on the worst (or next to worst) GPS provider, TomTom. Couple with that, GM's dash design doesn't lend itself well to having a GPS unit in that location. A radio/CD, yes, but not a GPS.

Ours worked for a year or better, then just completely died. While we never used it, the power/volume knob had a red LED indicator in the off position. That's how I know it died... one day, I noticed the absence of the red lamp.

[Tombsy]

Originally Posted by brucemc

Our (dead) in dash Jensen had GPS, so the antenna on the dash is the GPS receiver. A second antenna for the XM satellite is on the roof at the top of the forward support for the awning. The mic is, indeed, for Bluetooth phone.

This is a horrible unit. The maps were completely unreadable, particularly underway. They could be updated for a fee, and were based on the worst (or next to worst) GPS provider, TomTom. Couple with that, GM's dash design doesn't lend itself well to having a GPS unit in that location. A radio/CD, yes, but not a GPS.

Ours worked for a year or better, then just completely died. While we never used it, the power/volume knob had a red LED indicator in the off position. That's how I know it died... one day, I noticed the absence of the red lamp.

I had the Jensen as well and hated it, when it started spontaneously quitting and restarting on its own I changed it out for a Pioneer dvd receiver with Apple Car Play.
No navigation in the Pioneer, I use a Garmin 890.
The Pioneer still has a GPS antenna but it’s used to assist Google and Apple maps and save your phone battery.