Looking for short / stubby antenna replacement

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Re: Looking for short / stubby antenna replacement

Postby TOWATL » Wed 27.08.2014, 19:21

novacaine wrote:looks pretty good that, do you have the ebay link?


The link is in one of my previous posts on this thread.
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Re: Looking for short / stubby antenna replacement

Postby novacaine » Wed 27.08.2014, 19:25

completely looked past that cheers
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Re: Looking for short / stubby antenna replacement

Postby novacaine » Thu 04.09.2014, 12:26

Fitted the same aerial today, not sure how but I managed to screw it straight in without force. Much nicer than the old RC toy aerial.
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Re: Looking for short / stubby antenna replacement

Postby TOWATL » Thu 04.09.2014, 12:53

novacaine wrote:Fitted the same aerial today, not sure how but I managed to screw it straight in without force. Much nicer than the old RC toy aerial.


:agree:
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Re: Looking for short / stubby antenna replacement

Postby Rusty Wishbone » Sat 15.11.2014, 00:30

Does the aerial have to be mounted externally of the bodywork? I can understand why this would be important on a metal car, but I would have thought that, on an Elan, it could be internal.

The reason I ask is that my radio will only pick up strong BBC channels, and nothing else. I used the radio in my old Elan, and it got good reception with many non-BBC channels. Since I can't bear The Archers, it would be good to fit a discrete internal aerial which provides a really good signal.

Any ideas?
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Re: Looking for short / stubby antenna replacement

Postby lotos » Sat 15.11.2014, 03:46

Hidden / hideaway antennas seem to get pretty middling reviews on Amazon.
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Re: Looking for short / stubby antenna replacement

Postby Jamie N » Sat 15.11.2014, 19:42

lotos wrote:Hidden / hideaway antennas seem to get pretty middling reviews on Amazon.


I could give some pretty middling reviews about Amazon. :P
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Re: Looking for short / stubby antenna replacement

Postby lotos » Sun 16.11.2014, 00:17

Really? I think I buy more from Amazon then all other places combined. Including local!
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Re: Looking for short / stubby antenna replacement

Postby dapinky » Sun 16.11.2014, 11:24

I have to say, I'm moving more towards Amazon and away from Ebay these days....

...But I do find the USA site better than the UK one, and have always had brilliant service from them (whether delivered to hotels, workplaces or homes in US, or to home address in UK.)
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Re: Looking for short / stubby antenna replacement

Postby GeoffSmith » Sun 16.11.2014, 11:48

lotos wrote:Hidden / hideaway antennas seem to get pretty middling reviews on Amazon.

But most of them are fitted inside Faraday cages (grounded metal boxes aka body shells) which significantly attenuate radio signals!


Rusty Wishbone wrote:Does the aerial have to be mounted externally of the bodywork? I can understand why this would be important on a metal car, but I would have thought that, on an Elan, it could be internal … Any ideas?


I think there is some foil under the rear wing which acts as the ground plane for our antennae. As our bodies are fibreglass and don't attenuate RF significantly, I would have thought you could get reasonable reception mounting an internal vertical antenna (simple piece of wire about a foot long) above a similar horizontal ground plane (grounded tin/turkey foil) on the boot floor. Admittedly there are some lumps of earthed metal around which are going to interfere to some degree but I reckon it would be worth a try.
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Re: Looking for short / stubby antenna replacement

Postby Rice crispy » Sun 23.11.2014, 10:01

I brought the same one as towalt and it definitely doesn't fit the standard thread but I trimmed it down to M4 and cut a 0.5 thread on it and it fits fine now an I can swap to the original if I want without any trouble. If anyone wants the thread changed I'm happy to do if for free.
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Re: Looking for short / stubby antenna replacement

Postby Tuga2112 » Thu 27.11.2014, 00:11

if this is of any help,

I can confirm from my car the antenna is inside the boot. and i dont have any complaint about the reception.

while staying in the topic-ish does anyone know of an retractable antenna that is rather small when expanded? i would suspect our elans would look good with a retractable antenna as long as it would expand only about 10cm maybe even less?
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