Removing Factory Antenna Wire
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From: Wichita, KS
RE: Removing Factory Antenna Wire
I guess you are talking about the radio or CB antenna on an Ultra?
Remove and toss? or replace?
The antenna wires start on the back of the radio unit. You have to remove the front half of the fairing. Unscress the antenna cables and feed them back through the fairing. The are inside a wire boot, and I just cut mine off there, and where they came out under the tank. I laid my own wire and put a duplexer on it so I can use one antenna for both radio and CB.
The CB antenna was a single strand of about 28 gague copper wire inside a hollow casing. I replaced it with RG8. Used an antenna analyzer to tune a much better antenna for low SWR and much improved reception and transmission. AM radio suffers, but FM is just as good.
Two antennas are not the optimal set-up as the CB antenna will couple with the FM antenna and rob your signal during transmission.
Remove and toss? or replace?
The antenna wires start on the back of the radio unit. You have to remove the front half of the fairing. Unscress the antenna cables and feed them back through the fairing. The are inside a wire boot, and I just cut mine off there, and where they came out under the tank. I laid my own wire and put a duplexer on it so I can use one antenna for both radio and CB.
The CB antenna was a single strand of about 28 gague copper wire inside a hollow casing. I replaced it with RG8. Used an antenna analyzer to tune a much better antenna for low SWR and much improved reception and transmission. AM radio suffers, but FM is just as good.
Two antennas are not the optimal set-up as the CB antenna will couple with the FM antenna and rob your signal during transmission.
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RE: Removing Factory Antenna Wire
Its routed THROUGH the main harness conduit. If your not using the antenna at the rear of the bike just bundle it under the left side cover just like the FLHT standards have them from the factory.
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RE: Removing Factory Antenna Wire
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Two antennas are not the optimal set-up as the CB antenna will couple with the FM antenna and rob your signal during transmission.
Two antennas are not the optimal set-up as the CB antenna will couple with the FM antenna and rob your signal during transmission.
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