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Radio interference!!

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Richn83:
Glad its sorted now JPC, although very very odd that was working for 4 months and then went.

JPC:
I know, I swore it was the engineers ficking around when doing the digital switch over!! Haha!

Garth:
JPC, do you have the part number of the shark fin you have? If it's the same as mine (1K0 035 507 J), then it cannot be used as a radio antenna on our cars.
My RCD510 (not sure about RNS) has a diagnostics mode if you hold down the setup button. This shows the signal strength of both antennas and when I fitted the shark-fin, the menu told me ant1 was off.

I've done a fair amount of research on this now since my signal was initially pretty good with the shark-fin, but seemed to get worse after a couple of days. The best solution I can find if you want to keep the shark-fin is to buy the right hand amplifier and cable to connect the primary antenna to the rear screen as well as the secondary. The connection is already on the rear screen ready, so you only need the cables to connect it and the amp to power it. If you have ETKA, you can get the part numbers from there, if not, let me know and I'll dig them out.

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JamboV6:
This is what ive been meaning to do for months, after numerous people saying you have to keep the whip or have the dual sharkfin/whip! Just keep forgetting to order the amplifer everytime im at the dealers. Ive had the dummy sharkfin sat painted since last summer waiting to go on. just need to find the correct cable on etka or someone who can make them up. so many unfinished projects :ashamed:

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