Lost Antenna Wire
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From: South Kitsap County, WA
Lost Antenna Wire
Just giving everybody a "head's up."
I live on a pretty rough road and do an occasional off-road journey. Last week I lost just about all my radio reception (I use it for commuting traffic). I popped the hood and found the antenna lead had gone "MIA." After tracing the antenna lead I found a few ways I could access it to reattach it.
The most difficult (for me) was actually taking the plastic splash guard out. I ended up removing the antenna base and fishing the cable out with a wire coat hanger, it also took a powerful "mini-mag" flashlight, and a whole lot of patience (about 30 minutes worth). To help it stay attached when I got the base and antenna joined, I applied a piece of electrical tape around the wire and base junction.
Just a helpful suggestion to those with a radio reception problem... check the antenna lead and make sure it's attached firmly. That cable connector is only a vertically mounted slide on job and it doesn't take too kind to "real" truck driving conditions
-Kerry
I live on a pretty rough road and do an occasional off-road journey. Last week I lost just about all my radio reception (I use it for commuting traffic). I popped the hood and found the antenna lead had gone "MIA." After tracing the antenna lead I found a few ways I could access it to reattach it.
The most difficult (for me) was actually taking the plastic splash guard out. I ended up removing the antenna base and fishing the cable out with a wire coat hanger, it also took a powerful "mini-mag" flashlight, and a whole lot of patience (about 30 minutes worth). To help it stay attached when I got the base and antenna joined, I applied a piece of electrical tape around the wire and base junction.
Just a helpful suggestion to those with a radio reception problem... check the antenna lead and make sure it's attached firmly. That cable connector is only a vertically mounted slide on job and it doesn't take too kind to "real" truck driving conditions
-Kerry
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You mean that it just plugs into the antenna like it does the back of the radio?
That's kinda cheezy since gravity is always trying to pull it out. Then you bounce over top of a few of these chainsaw powered imports and it just might fall out.
Bummer
Jimmy
That's kinda cheezy since gravity is always trying to pull it out. Then you bounce over top of a few of these chainsaw powered imports and it just might fall out.
Bummer
Jimmy
Last edited by LxMan1; Jan 5, 2004 at 12:15 AM.
