Legal? HF Antenna on bullbar.

Must be if its on a Police vehicle, LOL

Wonder how it passes the NSW rego inspection in relation to "protrusions" on the bullbar

Cheers,

Cruiser

Police and emergency vehicles are exempt.

Have a good one.

Maybe it's registered in Qld. It's legal here.

"Only one long range antenna (large diameter base) may
be fitted to the front of a vehicle and must be fitted to
the left side. The maximum diameter permitted is 75mm."

Your right police and emergency vehicles are exempt from a lot of the requirements under the act. From what I have seen tho there is a trend in most of them now being mounted on the rear.
It may be different in the case of getting your inspection done but has anyone actually been given a ticket for having an auto tune on the front? I'm not talking about mates of mates but people on here? I would be quite surprised.
Tim

Exempt or not they do as they please.
Do as i say not as I do, no wonder no one has respect.
Like the one today who stopped today to have a chat with a mate in a NO STOPPING zone completely blocking my vision as I tried to turn onto a major highway and then had the hide to give me a dumb look when I nearly got cleaned up. Where do they get these einsteins.
When I got my licence (years ago) cops the only one that never slowed for the school zone.s used to have to obey all the road rules unless lights or sirens were active. Saw one the other day just cruising at 65-70 (60 zone) he was the only one that never slowed for the school zone.

Ahh Apple jacks Cobar The bain of my waist line lol.

Cheers Wilko

As mentioned earlier, police and emergency vehicles are exempted in certain States in terms of the requirements.

I have a front mounted auto-tune antenna and it passes the registration test each year. I went to some trouble to investigate this at the time I had it fitted, checking with both the RTA and police. Under Vehicle Inspection Bulletin No. 5 (NSW) there are guidelines on what can be fitted and how it is fitted to a bulbar. It does not specifically exclude auto-tune antennas. The only requirement is it doesn’t obstruct vision, which it doesn’t.

It is different in other States, such as Victoria where they are specifically excluded.

It is possible that NSW may adopt the same, and this might happen as part of the Standards Review on bullbars which is advancing at present, however it hasn’t to date and my only requirement is that it meets the standard in the State in which it is registered.

VIB No. 5

Cheers, The Landy

What about all the vehicles with two piece windscreens and a pillar in the middle?
Big grey area in most states except Vic where it is specifically mentioned in the rules.
The biggest problem is not to mount it directly in front of the passengers seat.
I did that years ago on a troopy bullbar and the wife got into her seat and said straight up you can move that NOW or I'm not going away.
Shifted it about 200mm sideways and all was ok.

Following on from my previous post here is a thread I created in 2005 on the same subject and following a response I had from my State MP on the matter after I wrote seeking clarification.

HF Self-Tuning Antennas (Fitting) Exploroz Post in 2005

Cheers, The Landy

Codan are developing a new Auto Tune base that is attached to the bull bar. It is approximately 200mm x 200mm on the base and very approximately 300mm high. You can't see it from the drivers seat. Reception is equal or better than the existing base units. I have seen the unit mounted on a vehicle owned by a Codan Dealer here in the Riverland of SA.
I have no idea when it will be available for sale.