How to remove the roof antenna

[Salem Wolf]

Hi I found several topic about broken antenna Ours is obviously dead, but there’s no screws How can I remove it to replace it? It’s on a Vegas 2015

thanks

 

[16ACE27]

See that hex key head? Unscrew that and the broken tilt part of the antenna can be replaced if you can find one..

Otherwise, the part that the hex screw screws into unscrews from the base an a universal antenna can be screwed back on.

To go any further requires you to get to the inside of the cap and unscrew the antenna nut. Then break the seal and pull the antenna out.

 

[ducksface]

https://www.amazon.com/Eightwood-Flexible-Antennae-Motorhome-Motorcycle/dp/B09N3K4N7M/

This looks right.
Use just the top part.

Or more better;
Use an Allen wrench to remove the broken part.
Take the broken part to any/many autoparts store until you find a match for that broken part. Length, color, material is of no concern.
Any that fits will do just fine.

 

[Salem Wolf]

https://www.amazon.com/Eightwood-Flexible-Antennae-Motorhome-Motorcycle/dp/B09N3K4N7M/

This looks right.
Use just the top part.

Or more better;
Use an Allen wrench to remove the broken part.
Take the broken part to any/many autoparts store until you find a match for that broken part. Length, color, material is of no concern.
Any that fits will do just fine.

Thanks ! I ordered it and will give it a try.

 

[ArcticGPS]

Mine broke, it is the AM Radio antenna.

This is how I fixed mine.

Maybe I'll need the AM radio again someday and I'll have to remove the blob of self-leveling sealant.

 

[16ACE27]

Mine broke, it is the AM Radio antenna.

This is how I fixed mine.

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Maybe I'll need the AM radio again someday and I'll have to remove the blob of self-leveling sealant.

Nobody listens to AM radio anymore because it is the FM radio antenna which is not very well tuned for the AM band frequencies.

 

[Lt Keefer]

Nobody listens to AM radio anymore because it is the FM radio antenna which is not very well tuned for the AM band frequencies.

Speak for yourself. Were I live, there is a very active listing of AM radio stations. FM is where all the junk lives.

 

[Jimbo57]

I prefer am radio but I use I Heart radio from my phone , it’s free and I can listen to my home station any where I have phone reception and the sound on my head phones is far better then any sound system. My head phones are bone conduction type so they don’t cover your ears. Since I have hearing lose I can hear better and no body around me has too listen

 

[ducksface]

My head phones are bone conduction type so they don’t cover your ears.

My old scuba comm headsets were
'Bone-ophones' like you wear.
Mid 1990's I think.
Newbs would freak out when they first heard through them.

 

[Chateau_Nomad]

FM... vertical mast. AM... horizontal mast. It's why they put those stupid horizontal thin wires at the top of windshields.

 

[16ACE27]

FM... vertical mast. AM... horizontal mast. It's why they put those stupid horizontal thin wires at the top of windshields.

Nope

 

[16ACE27]

Speak for yourself. Were I live, there is a very active listing of AM radio stations. FM is where all the junk lives.

I didn't say there was no broadcasting on the AM bands. I said nobody listens to it and one reason is due to the combined AM/FM antenna that is "tuned" to the FM band so it is more difficult to tune AM stations for any distance.

 

[ducksface]

I get am radio from great distance.
It hasn't been worth listening to(comparatively) since the
Kfi
Kcmo
Wgn
After sundown drift was a thing.

 

[Lt Keefer]

I didn't say there was no broadcasting on the AM bands. I said nobody listens to it and one reason is due to the combined AM/FM antenna that is "tuned" to the FM band so it is more difficult to tune AM stations for any distance.

I haven't had a radio that 'tuned' in a station since my 84 K Jimmy. Now you just select a frequency.

 

[16ACE27]

I haven't had a radio that 'tuned' in a station since my 84 K Jimmy. Now you just select a frequency.

What did you think you were doing before?

 

[Jimbo57]

I get am radio from great distance.
It hasn't been worth listening to(comparatively) since the
Kfi
Kcmo
Wgn
After sundown drift was a thing.

I Heart radio off your phone gives you KFI all day

 

[The Rookie]

I remember as a kid listening to a Spurs basketball broadcast over AM. I was listening in Colorado. It was very weak but I could hear it.

 

[Chateau_Nomad]

Nope

Well pshawww... I typed it exactly bass ackwards! Basic wave propagation 101. I would have flunked my general test if I didn't proof read better than that! All those vertical antennas with squirrel tails in the early 1960s preceded FM car radios. They existed, but were pretty rare. Then a long came the horizontal windshield FM wire "antennas"... which were crap.

 

[Lucky Lady]

Hi I found several topic about broken antenna Ours is obviously dead, but there’s no screws How can I remove it to replace it? It’s on a Vegas 2015

thanks
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Find my post on how I fixed mine. I just bought a new one and changed its location.