Firstly I've tried installing a GME tx3340 with one of these antennas:
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It was mounted on the factory alloy bullbar.
Since then I have a few questions:
1. What sort of range am I meant to be getting? Reason why i asked is because we mounted another one into my dad's 4wd, and I was getting around 600m. Mind you his car was in the garage when we tested it.
2. The antena comes with a 259 type connector. I stripped the antenna cable fed through the white plastic bit with bit of inside wire sticking out and i soldered it to the connector. My understanding is that's the way to do it?? Also the metal wire mesh...does it need to be touching the connector to provide some sort of grounding earthing??
3. If it's under-perfoming what should i be looking at?
4. this one is bit embarrassing but when connecting the radio to the battery terminal i accidentally shorted +ve with the spanner touching the metal part of the engine. Some sparks went flying. Question is, what sort of damage can this cause on the engine computer/sensors/battery? Everything seems to be working OK so far. Battery is reading 12.8V
vhttp://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI...#ht_817wt_1104
It was mounted on the factory alloy bullbar.
Since then I have a few questions:
1. What sort of range am I meant to be getting? Reason why i asked is because we mounted another one into my dad's 4wd, and I was getting around 600m. Mind you his car was in the garage when we tested it.
2. The antena comes with a 259 type connector. I stripped the antenna cable fed through the white plastic bit with bit of inside wire sticking out and i soldered it to the connector. My understanding is that's the way to do it?? Also the metal wire mesh...does it need to be touching the connector to provide some sort of grounding earthing??
3. If it's under-perfoming what should i be looking at?
4. this one is bit embarrassing but when connecting the radio to the battery terminal i accidentally shorted +ve with the spanner touching the metal part of the engine. Some sparks went flying. Question is, what sort of damage can this cause on the engine computer/sensors/battery? Everything seems to be working OK so far. Battery is reading 12.8V
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