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Omega Help Area => Omega General Help => Topic started by: terry paget on 09 February 2016, 17:42:49
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2000 2.5 petrol manual Omega CDX estate
Radio aerial is unusually long and snags my garage roof. I tried to swop for a spare, but it don't fit. Its screw is 7mm diameter, my spares are all 6mm diameter. Is this common?
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Does it have a phone? If not, take it off and don't worry ;)
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Does it have a phone? If not, take it off and don't worry ;)
Doesn't the estate require the whip given that the heated rear screen is only a heated rear screen unlike the saloon :-\
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Most ebay cheapie chav beestings have a reversible thread. Worth a go if you don't mind certain Admins abusing you...
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Does it have a phone? If not, take it off and don't worry ;)
Doesn't the estate require the whip given that the heated rear screen is only a heated rear screen unlike the saloon :-\
Didn't spot the estate bit :-X :-[
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Sounds like its been swapped from another model, not all VX Whip Aerials have the same thread. :-\
Out of interest, very early Omega Estates used the rear heated screen as an aerial for the HU, but it started to become an issue as the coax feed was run through grommet holes on the top of the tailgate near the hinge area a started to cut into the coax cable after time, hence it was redesigned for the roof antenna. ;)
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Most ebay cheapie chav beestings have a reversible thread. Worth a go if you don't mind certain Admins abusing you...
Thanks. I see several advertised aerials come with thread adapters, obviously the way to go.
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Sounds like its been swapped from another model, not all VX Whip Aerials have the same thread. :-\
Out of interest, very early Omega Estates used the rear heated screen as an aerial for the HU, but it started to become an issue as the coax feed was run through grommet holes on the top of the tailgate near the hinge area a started to cut into the coax cable after time, hence it was redesigned for the roof antenna. ;)
What has surprised me is the roof base female thread is 7mm. My 1997 estate was 6mm, my 2000 MFL estate is 6mm as was my earlier 2000 MFL estate. I suppose someone may have changed the roof base, just seems unlikely. The current aerial is a simple wire 49cms long, all the others are 40cms long and have a coil winding around them, presumed to do with the amplifier.
Reception with the current aerial is excellent.
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Sounds like its been swapped from another model, not all VX Whip Aerials have the same thread. :-\
Out of interest, very early Omega Estates used the rear heated screen as an aerial for the HU, but it started to become an issue as the coax feed was run through grommet holes on the top of the tailgate near the hinge area a started to cut into the coax cable after time, hence it was redesigned for the roof antenna. ;)
What has surprised me is the roof base female thread is 7mm. My 1997 estate was 6mm, my 2000 MFL estate is 6mm as was my earlier 2000 MFL estate. I suppose someone may have changed the roof base, just seems unlikely. The current aerial is a simple wire 49cms long, all the others are 40cms long and have a coil winding around them, presumed to do with the amplifier.
Reception with the current aerial is excellent.
No the Amp is just there for a bit more signal welly, an ideal aerial whip for FM, 1/4 wave centred about 98Mhz, is about 75cm 'ish, so wrapping that length around a fibre glass rod shortens the whip length but retains its resonance length. ;)
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Throw a picture up of what you got fitted, my money is its been swapped for a early Tigra, Corsa type.
Edit: Actually thinking about, don't do that, were be here all night with your Dropbox posting history. ;D
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Throw a picture up of what you got fitted, my money is its been swapped for a early Tigra, Corsa type.
Edit: Actually thinking about, don't do that, were be here all night with your Dropbox posting history. ;D
Now you mention it my two estate aerial bases are different. In the hope you can open these pics, here they are.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/l9y56nwwpi8k54m/PFLaerial.jpg?dl=0 (https://www.dropbox.com/s/l9y56nwwpi8k54m/PFLaerial.jpg?dl=0)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/kwh03bcokasad05/MFLaerial.jpg?dl=0 (https://www.dropbox.com/s/kwh03bcokasad05/MFLaerial.jpg?dl=0)
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(https://photos-2.dropbox.com/t/2/AABF2Th-vf0r2VX7bQKw8nR-r9Ad-fmpD57lD6lOQvqvbg/12/130003580/jpeg/32x32/3/1455148800/0/2/PFLaerial.jpg/EK-khWQY6gMgASgB/1nO1X-oCB77FPrkDCoNX0b3LZbTQNtBGDF6CzIwLrxQ?size_mode=3&size=1024x768)
(https://photos-3.dropbox.com/t/2/AAASE4C7h9VehftNXVKT1ZCRGoS5hrwrfWKRc3yYGuB-dg/12/130003580/jpeg/32x32/3/1455148800/0/2/MFLaerial.jpg/EK-khWQY6gMgASgB/U1CPPVG8nDqUZA_Bvs61OOxAnqVJVzsJGmUKPLfR_78?size_mode=3&size=1024x768)
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First is standard shape base with GSM & telephone pre-wiring (as was fitted to my GPS equipped Elite), second is standard shape base with no GSM & telephone, IIRC.
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The PFL head unit is CCRT 700, with tuner, tape, CD and telephone; MFL is CCR 600 tuner, tape and CD, no telephoner, which may explain things.
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Whip is not right on the first pic, looks like an after thought / get me out of trouble job. But if it works fine. :y