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    UHF CB Radio aerial wiring

    Hi all
    when i got my Patrol it had a GME Electrophone UHF in it with the mounting bracket at the front for a aerial. There is a base where the aerial screws on. BUT the wire is loose, not connected to anything. Can i buy an aerial that will screw onto the base and just connect the already ran wire to the new wire on the new aerial?
    I hope i have explained this ok hahaha

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    Quote Originally Posted by Leighw85 View Post
    Hi all
    when i got my Patrol it had a GME Electrophone UHF in it with the mounting bracket at the front for a aerial. There is a base where the aerial screws on. BUT the wire is loose, not connected to anything. Can i buy an aerial that will screw onto the base and just connect the already ran wire to the new wire on the new aerial?
    I hope i have explained this ok hahaha

    cheers
    you can reconnect the coaxal wire to the base. ...or you can buy a whole new base and arial already connected and just bolt it on and rerun the wire through the easiest way is to conect the new one to the old one by installation tape and pull it through the firewall under the dash





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    To put it easier lol
    can i join the Coax cable that runs from my UHF to the new aerial at the front of the 4x4?
    As the head unit is in the centre roof storage compartment i would have to run the cable a fair way to replace the whole thing.
    If i can join it at the front where the bare wire is that would be great

    hope i put it better this time

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    thanks mate.
    Im really trying to avoid running the wire to the head unit if i can.
    I would have to run it up the door trims and into the roof as the Head unit is up on the roof.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Leighw85 View Post
    To put it easier lol
    can i join the Coax cable that runs from my UHF to the new aerial at the front of the 4x4?
    As the head unit is in the centre roof storage compartment i would have to run the cable a fair way to replace the whole thing.
    If i can join it at the front where the bare wire is that would be great

    hope i put it better this time
    Yeah just resolder it to the base should fix it mate 5min job




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    ok sweet
    yeah i just have a spring base at the front with no aerial.
    So just solder it to that base and screw on a new antenna?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Leighw85 View Post
    ok sweet
    yeah i just have a spring base at the front with no aerial.
    So just solder it to that base and screw on a new antenna?


    Might need to put a pic up of the type of base so we can see what we are looking at if its the type i thinking of the base may need to be pulled apart and then soldered


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    Where in perth are u?




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    Gday Leigh, I think most new antennas come with the coax already fitted as I think the base are mostly sealed units (could be wrong). Best was to do it would be to run the new cable to you uhf but you could attach a connector to your old cable and attach both cables together via the connector........ now I m no expert so not sure what having a longer run of coax would do to the reception, whether it would make it worse but i do know the more connections you have the worse the quality of reception becomes.


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    here is what i have mate
    the wire is loose under all this




    cheers

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