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Old 09-30-02, 09:55 AM
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Aftermarket Head Unit (need help with antenna)

installed a Kenwood Excelon 915 head unit in a 1994. noticed there are 2 wires comming from the antenna i know i need to hook up the only one that will fit, but i get the worst reception. what now? can i hook up the other antenna somewhere else?

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Old 09-30-02, 03:57 PM
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does your antenna go up when you turn on the radio? otherwise, i don't know why you would get such crappy reception, unless the antenna lead from the radio is not plugged in properly.

....sorry i couldn't be of more help....
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Wait minute, you use the radio? There aren't any good radio stations around here.....

Just grab some CD's and be on your way.

j/k

See if this thread helps:
https://www.rx7club.com/forum/showth...hlight=Antenna
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Hmm, will I know this isnt much help but I believe you have to get an adapter. Seems like the RX7 uses antenna lines thats different from every other car in the world so most aftermarket head units dont accept the antenna. I think its something like the antenna is male and should be female or female and should be male or something along those lines

Anyway, sorry i cant help you further but maybe that will lead you in the right direction

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I don't know about FD's, when I installed an aftermarket head unit in my FC, I need to run a relay switch for the antenna, because Mazda used a negative signal to operate the power antenna, or some sh*t. I'm not really sure though.
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was your system previously bose? bose systems give everyone trouble, something with the wiring schematics..
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u'll jsut need a simple adapter from radio shack. one of the antenna connections coeming form the car is for the external and one is for the internal antenna. Grab the adapter and plug it in. and thats that.

I ahve the bose system and it didnt' give me any trouble.
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if you change the deck to non-bose and leave the rest of the system stock bose, usually you encounter some kind of reception problem.
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Originally posted by YayeR
if you change the deck to non-bose and leave the rest of the system stock bose, usually you encounter some kind of reception problem.
I have never expericned that.
Whut does the bose system have to do with the antenna?
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Check your ground wire
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probably nothing, but thats about all i know about bose systems so i thought i'd share it, i know its been true in my dads car, and several others. my FD didn't come with bose so i wouldnt know how it affected anything.
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Originally posted by SPOautos
Hmm, will I know this isnt much help but I believe you have to get an adapter. Seems like the RX7 uses antenna lines thats different from every other car in the world so most aftermarket head units dont accept the antenna. I think its something like the antenna is male and should be female or female and should be male or something along those lines

Anyway, sorry i cant help you further but maybe that will lead you in the right direction

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That is what I found, too, when I installed a Nakamichi head unit. I made an adapter from an extention cable that I cut and installed another plug on. The power antenna control wire was no problem.

-Max
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