how set antenna to stay up/down?

OmegaHack3 · Jul 10, 2002

How can i get it so that the antenna stays up or down? I heard that there is some way, but thats all i heard. Thanks for the info.

cheezthis · Jul 10, 2002

Well, you can always install a relay/switch read here

If you want to stay up all the time (I did this to my Celica), just have the antenna up, and cut the power to the motor.

OmegaHack3 · Jul 12, 2002

How would i cut off power? Is there a lot of technical work involved?

Tim Sullivan · Jul 12, 2002

Nope, you just have to unplug it. Look on bseries.net for information on how to do that. (under s2000 antenna install).

jdmHottie · Jul 12, 2002

I guess this is kinda off topic, but can the antenna be made to stay down while a CD is playing? Also, I heard that eventually your antenna will bend a bit if you do a lot of highway driving...is that true?

OmegaHack3 · Jul 13, 2002

Will diconnecting the power while the antenna is up keep the antenna up?

Fentoozler45 · Jul 13, 2002

OmegaHack3 on Jul/13/02 said:
Will diconnecting the power while the antenna is up keep the antenna up?

If you unplug the power to the antenna and leave it unplugged, yes.

TeggyLS · Jul 18, 2002

on my alpine the antenna only comes up if the tuner is turned on, but as soon as i switch over to cd, the antenna goes back down. its cool, i listen to cd's more than the radio anyhow.

virtualbong · Jul 18, 2002

jdmHottie on Jul/12/02 said:
I guess this is kinda off topic, but can the antenna be made to stay down while a CD is playing? Also, I heard that eventually your antenna will bend a bit if you do a lot of highway driving...is that true?

I believe so. That's why so many people have problems with their antennas not going back down or not extending all the way. I got so irritated by it that I just changed my antenna to an S2000 setup.

OmegaHack3 · Jul 25, 2002

ok i finaly got around to trying to get to try this and i cant pull off the side pannel, i unscrewed all the screws that i can see and i undid all the snap thingies, but it still wont come off, i noticed that it might be hitting the middle pannel in the hatch but i'm not sure if i need to take that off. I have seen some walkthroughs on how to do it but they all just say take off the side pannel

MorningZ · Jul 25, 2002

if they all say "take off the side panel", then take off the side panel..

there is a picture step by step to remove that panel in our very own articles section....
Right Here

SBhatia · Oct 24, 2002

jdmHottie on Jul/12/02 said:
I guess this is kinda off topic, but can the antenna be made to stay down while a CD is playing? Also, I heard that eventually your antenna will bend a bit if you do a lot of highway driving...is that true?

it actually will. my dad's 95 camry has the same type of antenna as the teg, and that thing got bent up pretty bad. at one point, it didnt even go down all the way when turned off.

quixs1lver · Oct 24, 2002

http://integramod.tripod.com/audiomod/antenna/antenna.html

try that

andrew_02 · Oct 24, 2002

i did a relay switch on my antenna. i think it's cool that i can make it go up or down when ever i want to. i usually keep it down though, i barely listen to the radio (i hate commercials) and i think the car looks better with it down.

the difference between mine, and morningZ's radio's is that i had to tap into the wire that was blue with a white stripe. so if you are goin to put in a switch, make sure you are specific to your radio.

oh yeah

MrMoe · Oct 24, 2002

said:
the difference between mine, and morningZ's radio's is that i had to tap into the wire that was blue with a white stripe. so if you are goin to put in a switch, make sure you are specific to your radio.

was this an aftermarket radio?

z317 · Oct 24, 2002

to save the trouble, you can always go to your local audio shop, or even "best buy", drop 30 bucks or so, and tell them you want to add an antenna overwrite switch. 10 minutes later, voila, you'll have a teg with no antenna sticking in the air while listening to your favorite gospel cd.

bigd · Oct 24, 2002

z317 on Oct/24/02 said:
to save the trouble, you can always go to your local audio shop, or even "best buy", drop 30 bucks or so, and tell them you want to add an antenna overwrite switch. 10 minutes later, voila, you'll have a teg with no antenna sticking in the air while listening to your favorite gospel cd.

dont be dissing gospel music now

TegGSR96 · Nov 15, 2002

If i wanna just unplug it from behind my deck (radio)... how can i do so.. all diagrams show inside the trunk.. but i just wanna disconnect it from the deck so it doesnt try to go up and down cause someone caught my antenna with their coat and broke it.. so it cant go down/up.. i havent listened to music in a week cause ive been busy and if i put a cd then the antenna goes up, breakes and falls over the side..
Can i just pull the wire out from my deck or do i cut it or what?
Alex

streetsynner · Nov 15, 2002

my antenna just stopped working, were do I go to find info on the S2000 conversion?

cheezthis · Nov 15, 2002

TegGSR96: You can unplug the motor, that's what I did w/my old Celica. If you have the stock deck, that's what I would do if you don't want the hassle of installing a switch right now (not hard though). If it's an aftermarket deck, just disconnect the signal/remote-turn on wire (usually blue, sometimes w/white stripe) from behind the deck.

streetsynner: just search s2k antenna s2000...tons of stuff. Check the common topcics in the audio forum as well, there's a link in there. Good luck.

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