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Re: Shark Fin / Onstar Antenna: How to remove? Posted by Larry West [Email]  (#1140)  [Profile/Gallery]
(more from Larry West) on Mon, 8 Jun 2009 13:42:26
In Reply to: Shark Fin / Onstar Antenna: How to remove?, Steve W, Mon, 8 Jun 2009 10:23:36 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
>Can the existing antenna be removed without going up from inside the car >(i.e., tearing out the headliner)? How?
Short of taking tin snips to the roof, no, you have to go in from under the headliner. (Have you ever seen a "permanent" Ham antenna that wasn't like this?) This doesn't necessarily mean you have to remove the headliner, however...
>Where does the coax end up at the Onstar end of things?
Wherever your OffStar equipment is. On a sedan, its under the parcel shelf, in a wagon, under one of the covers in the way back. If you've an early car (when they were still putting it in at the port...), location may differ slightly.
>I don't want to try and remove this if it's not feasible or if breaking >it means I have to buy a fake one for 70 bucks to seal up my blunder. It >looks crappy now but is watertight.
I'm pretty certain it is a 5/8" (or nearest metric equivalent) hole, so standard roof mounts should work fine.
>If it's fed with 50-ohm cable, and I can get to the end, I could feed it >to my VHF/UHF transceiver and mount a ham antenna on the roof.
Better to use the cable that comes with your Ham antenna mount. The wires from the shark fin are for GPS and the OffStar phone, so are likely incompatible with any Ham equipment, anyway.
Larry N2LJ
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