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I'm fitting a new aerial to the car, but don't want to run the new cable all the way through. What's the best way to splice the new cable to the existing one?
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Put in an aerial connector from the aerial to the existing lead?
Or if no lead there, then I would suggest that fitting a new cable willbe easier and more reliable than splicing and joining cables.
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use a cable joiner with a heat shrink shroud on the inner and ordinary heat shrink on the outer if you need to join it
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What car is it?>>
It's a Landcruiser 80 series. The original aerial has packed up, and as it has buttons to raise and lower (which I always forget to use) you have to use a toyota one. But I'm replacing it with a bendy rubber one. Trouble is, the cable goes through the inner arch which isn't easily romoveable.
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Use a proper coax connector. They are designed to ensure continuity of the shielding.
Kevin...
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I had the same problem, solved it by using one of these tinyurl.com/3bq9p6, It works a treat, no loss of reception in my vehicle and far, far easier then having to try and route the cable all through the car again.
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Have you removed the old aerial from the car?Some of these old toyotas use a standard type co-ax connector (male /female ) directly at the aerial unit, which means that a std aerial coax will plug in direct.
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i once put an ariel in a cavalier dashboard and it worked a treat
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find a local cb radio shop or a maplins and buy 2x pl259 & a female joining connecter solder the pl259 to the coax and the other to the new aerial & join the two and bingo all is working!! i use these to extend aerials for the car/tv/sky system etc!! approx cost £3.00 at my local radio shop for the lot..good luck
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It sounds like you are going to join this cable in a location where its going to get mucky and wet. Joining it is easy, keeping it dry and corrosion free is the tough part.
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TourVanMan TM < Ex RF >
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TVM has hit the joint on the head. I would solder inner, heatshrink it, solder outer, heatshrink it, and finally wrap in self amalgamating tape. The more metal to metal push contacts that you have the greater the chance of corrosion problems. Ordinary coax joiners are going to give problems over the long term.
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pmh (was peter)
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Thanks guys. I managed to get hold of the connector that TU recommended from my local car radio place. I'll be sure to wrap it well, and it will be inside the wing that has a liner, so it won't be subjected to any water unless I wade through water more than a meter deep.
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