Wednesday, Sep 08, 2004 at 10:26
Jimmy,
The different aerials made no noticeable difference at all. In fact, the idea of cutting the cables and using joiners etc turned out to be a contributing factor in signal loss as far as I know.
I put in a whole new cable with no joins. The antenna I use is just one of those ground-plane independant types and i can screw on either a short rubber aeirial or one of those black steel ones with a pig's tail spiral in the middle. The base is about 1 foot long shiny silver on a spring. In your case, could you perhaps overcome the problem of the high roof, by using a piece of angle steel bolted to the roof gutter mount and then adding the spring-based antenna to the top of that, so that the spring base is about level with the roof?
I've only recently changed
mine over to the roof and I ran the cable through the top of the pasenger's door, relying on the rubber door seal. That idea hasn't worked, rain drops find there way in and drip onto the
seat. So I'm just about to buy more cable and do the job again. This time, I'll run the cable down the outside of the "A" pillar (hidden by the
snorkel) and under the bonnet, through the firewall and up to the radio. The other idea I had was to drill a hole at the top of the "B" pillar and use a rubber grommet for the cable to go through. It would sit between the front and back doors if you can picture what I mean.
Good luck.
The reception since I moved the antenna to the roof is much better, but i can't be sure whether it's because of the roof position or the fact that I now have an unbroken cable instead of one with 2 joins in it.
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