Date:         Tue, 4 Oct 2005 20:57:40 -0700
Reply-To:     Michael Elliott <j.michael.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Michael Elliott <j.michael.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: contemporary VW antennas on Vanagons???
In-Reply-To:  <43434B7A.8060804@charmfx.com>
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It's not the antenna that is the problem, it is the decorating. Here's
my solution:

http://www.koruptkittens.com/kittensHome.html

--

Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
KG6RCR



On 10/4/2005 8:41 PM Wil Haslup wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Since I've had my vanagon I've disliked the location of my radio
> antenna...body, front driver's side.  It just seems to call attention to
> itself as a tacked on necessity....not like integrated windshield
> antennas or an antenna that is visually integrated with the vehicle.
>
> I do like the placement and look of the newer short black antenna's in
> the middle of the roof of many newer VWs.
>
> I'm wondering if anyone has retrofitted one of these to a Vanagon?
> Placement perhaps in the middle of the front middle or rear middle above
> of the rear hatch.  It seems like a rear placement would get in the way
> of any use of the roof for cargo though.
>
> Anyone???
>
> hints on how you might have run your cable?
>
> Thanks...
>
>
> --
>
> Wil
>
>
> -- http://www.charmfx.com/
>
> "University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so
> small."
> -- Henry Kissinger
>