Good to know.  There is a new antenna sitting beside my seat waiting to be
installed!

Jason

from my wireless office
On 2011-08-07 1:13 PM, "Rob" <becida@comcast.net> wrote:
> I passed under a low branch and my antenna was broken. I ordered a
> new one (just the stock one) from GoWesty and had it here in a couple
> of days (great service). I put it in yesterday. 1984 Westy.
>
> Had to take the instrument cluster out to get my hand back there to
> route the antenna wire and put the new antenna housing up thru the
> hole. During this I found out that the mast screws into the
> housing.... There was no need to open anything up, I could have
> unscrewed the stub of the old mast and screwed in the new one.
>
> I'll remember next time and if anyone searches the archives for
> 'changing an antenna' or 'broken antenna' or 'how do you put the
> antenna in' they'll see this and save half an hours work. Heck they
> might just go down to the FLAPS, buy a mast, change it in the parking
> lot & go on their way with tunes once again!
>
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> Rob
>
> becida@comcast.net
> Western Washington State, USA