hi!!
recently i swap my factory stereo with a kenwood one i use the wiring harness from metra and now the antenna is not workin,i double checked the wiring and its ok.i tihink maybe its a problem with the relay or something.but i cant find it.

any help?????
thanks!!!

 

Same thing happened to me with my old radio. When i swapped in my new one the antenna worked just fine.

Id just leave it alone, they are annoying, youve gotta turn off the radio for em to go down, like going through a car wash, I cut the power for mine yesterday. I dont notice any radio signal loss.

 

I always put in a seperate switch .. so I can control the up and down ..


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My 86 came with a factory up/down switch for the antenna

 

where i can find that factory antenna switch sounds good to me!!!

 

I'm not sure of the years, I would assume 84-88, but the switch is above the radio. You'll probably need the antenna motor out of the vehicle too, and do the wiring yourself.

 

no luck finding that switch in ebay!!!
but if i plug in the factory stereo the antenna works again, if i plug in the kenwood with the metra plug it doesnt work!!!! all cables are hooked ok,but looking in the metra harness there is a loop that hooks with the stereo power antenna cable .

 

here is the harness and the loop

 

depending on the radio there will be a power antenna wire that only works in radio mode or just a blue aux wire which means the antenna will stay up even when u have a cd in

 

power antenna fixed!!!!
the problem was my new kenwood kdv-mp142 the antenna cable voltage was too low to turn it on maybe a factory problem,so i use the amp power cable to trigger the antenna the only problem was the antenna always stays up but wit a by pass on/off mini switch now i can trigger the antenna whenever i want!!! coooooolllll!!!
thank you guys for helping me!!!
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Why not have the antenna wire control a relay, which controls the antenna?