Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2023 23:05:37 -0400
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From: Karl Ploessl <karl.ploessl@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Thoughts on antenna replacement
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Busdepot and others will have it: https://www.busdepot.com/fm09vh
On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 11:00 PM Jeff Palmer <w.jeff.palmer@icloud.com>
wrote:
> Is this the same for all years do you think? Would be interested in
> knowing where you got the antenna (P mail is fine!)
>
> Thanks
> Jeff
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Jun 30, 2023, at 9:30 PM, Roger Whittaker <rogerwhitt1@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Awesome tip for those seeking advice
> >
> >> On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 5:43 PM Jim Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> I recently ordered a fully retractable antenna for my 1983 westy. The
> >> others I have had over the years did not retract fully. They tore my car
> >> cover and got bent doing this and that, and I decided to go retractable.
> >>
> >> For those who have never fooled with such, think of the difference as
> this:
> >> if you consider the mount through the front of the car, the sheet
> metalwith
> >> the hole that the antennainstalls through as "ground level," the
> standard
> >> antenna lives 100% above ground. Beneath the sheet metal, under the
> dash,
> >> there is nothing but the cable to the radio. Everything telescopes into
> the
> >> six or eight inches of aerial protruding above the mounting point.
> >>
> >> The fully retractable antenna, on the other hand, lives "below ground
> >> level." That is, everything telescopes into a tube that hangs down from
> the
> >> mounting point, all stored within the underdash area of the car. Almost
> >> nothing sticks out on top.
> >>
> >> The problem you will encounter making this switch is that there is not
> >> enough room to fit the underground part of the aerial between the big
> front
> >> stiffener (that runs behind the grill on the interior of the car) and
> the
> >> sheet metal it protrudes up through. But not to worry! VW, even on my
> old
> >> 1983, put a rectangular rubber grommet in place in a hole in the top of
> the
> >> big front stiffener, exactly below the hole in the front sheet metal.
> Ths
> >> hole allows the antenna to extend down through the rectangular hole,
> once
> >> the plug is removed, and give the "underground" part of the aerial a
> place
> >> to live.
> >>
> >> Probably everybody but me knew that the rubber grommet and the hole was
> >> there to allow the installation of a fully retractable antenna, but in
> case
> >> not, I'm letting you know how it is possible to install one.
> >>
> >> Jim
> >>
> >
> >
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> >
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