Installation
Before installation of this antenna there are a few
things you might have to consider. To get peak
performance you need to mount the antenna as high as
possible on the vehicle, also try to separate it as much
as possible from other antennas that might be on the
vehicle.
We designed this antenna around using a mount that
directly mounts to ground, like a ball mount (Photo 1)
or Diamond K400 (Photo 2) mount. These types of
mounts work well.
Included with the antenna is a ferrite core that needs
to be mounted on the control wire as close as possible
to the antenna. Loop the wire through the choke at
least 3 times. This choke (Photo 3) does two things,
first it helps reduce antenna motor noise during
tuning, second it decouples the control wire from the
antenna; without this core, the antenna will be
untunable.
Next is the control box and cont rol cable. W e
preassemble everything here so you'll have a plug and
play system. If for some reason you need to cut the
wires, the color codes are as follows:
Control Box
Red - Positive 12vdc (
1 amp slow blow or 2 amp fast blow fuse
)
White - Negative 12vdc
Black - Motor Control
Black with White Stripe - Motor Control
Antenna
Red - Motor Control
Black - Motor Control
White - Sensors (for automatic control boxes)
Green - Sensors (for automatic control boxes)
The Sensor wires are not used with the manual
control box that comes with the antenna.
Photo 1
Photo 2
Photo 3
