i lost yet another fu@#ing antena
this is the 5th one already!!!!!

ok i have a 91 firebird whit sort of beat up a little and yet
ever so many months someone rip's the entire thing out
why????????

right across the street you got a impala ss a couple of nova's i just don't understand it's not like there gold or anything

get this the last three were those fuc#ed up little plastic ones from Kmart you know the 5.99 ones

so that brings me ot you guy's

where other then the factory location can i install an antena or do they offer a power one that fully closes so that they cant get a grip on it??????

are then any other options here

 

I've seen a power one mounted in the rear quarter panel, next to the rear hatch glass. Lots of space under there.

There is also the possibility of a "beesting" aerial. They sit at the rear of the roof, at 45 degrees back, and are about 12" long. The mast unscrews and you can keep it in your house (or in the car). They also look cool.

The only drawback with these is you have to drill a hole in the roof to feed the wire through.

As an alternative, what about a glass mounted one? They stick to your front or rear window (on the inside)

Si

 

I got an invisible antennea kit from radio shack and lost the stock one. I needed the spot it went through the passenger kick panel area to put the grommet for my 0 AWG. My radio works fine. When I get my TA style fenders on I'm having a body shop get rid of the hole and smooth it out.

 

Yea, that was SCauffiel. that did that. His page is here http://www.transamtemple.com/index.html

 

This is just a thought, and I'm not sure if this would cause a problem, since the frame of the car is the ground to the battery, but theoretically, you could just run a wire from the antenna lead on your headunit to the frame of the car. In which case the entire car becomes the antenna. But like I said, I'm not sure how that would work with the battery hooked up to the frame. Anyone ever tried this?

 

Using the frame as an antenna = bad idea. The radio frequency reception properties of an antenna is a matter of much research. The length of the antenna, amongst other properties, affects the Standing Wave Ratio (SWR, you might have heard this term from CB or ham radio operators.) Trimmming/extending the antenna affects the SWR, and your reception. The frame of a car would be far too complex an antenna to be practical, and completely untunable. I suggest a winshield antenna, one of the ones that looks like a thin wire running along the glass, usually in a 'T' shape. You could also use an OEM replacement and simplky remove the mast every night, though that seems to me to be too much hassle. Or just camp out in the bushes with a baseball bat.

 

Set up a video camera everynight and wait for the person to show up.......nothing is more embarassing then getting charged with theft for a $5.99 product.....

 

LMAO!!!!!

thanks for the laugh and the info.......

 

I don't know much about this, but as a retort, how come most home stereo systems have a piece of wire as an antenna, that you can just throw wherever is convenient. I've also seen devices that plug into an outlet where you can connect just such an antenna wire, which turns the electrical system of the house into the antenna. I'm not trying to be an ***, just tossing up some ideas.