AE4706 - Aerial Lead has fallen out of the base

Mine did the same, gave it to a mate.
He took it to an auto sparkie and he ordered in the part needed and fixed it.

Undo the grub screws and remove the Ariel itself.
Using a socket into the base that fits over the hex female half of the fitting inside the base you should be able to unscrew it.
It may have some loktite holding it in so could be a bit difficult to remove??

You can then feed the coaxial back in from the bottom and re-solder the coax back into the base and then screw it back in.

If you need a new fitting rather than use the old one again, meaning if you stuffed it getting it out then contact GME for a new one.

Its not a hard job just little fiddly.

Bonz just use the socket and tighten your fitting back into the base if thats what you describe as being loose??

Same happened to mine.Easy to pull apart and crimp back together yourself no need for a sparky

Badman

What you have encountered does happen, but is caused by the wrong installation of the antenna and coax lead. This may not be your case but this is how it happens.

When the antenna is installed, most people do not leave a good amount of cable slack, usually having the cable quite firm at the antenna base. When the antenna spring moves backwards and forwards, eg the antenna hits a low overhanging branch etc,there is no cable slack to take up whem the spring and coax move and the cable pulls tight due to the cable being tight and in time will do what has happened to your lead base. If you do not have the right crimping tool and the coax is not installed correctly into the old base, your antenna will not work and can cause damage to your UHF Radio.

The best and advised way of fixing this problem is to buy a new lead and centre complete from GME, Part No ABL004 complete with 5 metres of coax that sells for around the $30 mark. To remove the old centre from the spring base, you will need a long 19mm socket. The standard size socket will not be deep enough to fit down and undo the old centre. If you do not have the right size socket, most good hardware stores will sell the correct size socket for under $10.

Once you have removed the old centre, push the new coax down the centre of the spring base and through the centre hole of the nut that holds the antenna in place. Now tighten up the new centre and make sure that you leave a loop or a generous amount of coax at the bottom of the spring base and thread the new coax cable back inside of your cabin and resolder the plug.

Hope this helps you out.

Cheers

Stephen