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I think i might have a fuse receptacle from the old harness i will have to look over weekend, if not i will call Rhode island.

Thank you all for your input, this is a great website for info.

Jeff

I bought the very first antenna made by Yesterday's Radio and it works beautifully, even though the Packard accessories brochure suggests it is "not as efficient as the cowl mounted" one.

I found the male connector for the harness there was one on the old wiring harness that I kept. So now I have to solder coaxial to it and make connectors for attaching to antennas. I think in a previous forum I had read he had pictures showing the connection at antennas it looked like there was 2 one for signal and one for ground.

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Last photo in post #5 on the first page of this thread has an illustration of the antenna end connection. Shield is grounded and center conductor is connected to the antenna rods via a screw into the bracket holding the rods. The rubber pad the bracket bolts to insulates the rods from the ground side.

Be interesting to know if there will be a difference in reception with type of coax used in that short distance. Most of the TV stuff in the hardware store is 50 or 75 ohm. No idea what value radio antennas used but wonder if buying a universal antenna extension for car radio antennas and cutting the ends off to use that coax would be worth it.

Thanks Howard I just sent my radio man the picture and I did ask him what ohm would be best for reception.

I could not find anything on the Lavine Restorations web page regarding the under running board antennas. Do they have plans to sell them. I also heard at a recent swap meet that someone was going to source an under running board antenna design along with other antennas for 50's and 60's cars from an import company and the cost was going to be less than what Yesterday's Radio was charging. Apparently there is interest in them by Street Rodders and Customisers looking to keep their sleek look. Does anyone know anything about this or who that might be? Thanks.

Try this, Bob.
classiccarreproductions.com/product-category/under-the-running-board-antenna/

Joe,
Thanks for the link. Now I am going to bookmark it so I don't lose it.
Bob

Just had my rubber installed on running boards from Don Lampen. Now trying to figure out how the rubber washer's with the roll pins are installed and if the antennas go on first or last to the mounting screws. also where the harness from the radio hooks up at the antennas. If anyone has a radio could send a picture of the underneath the running boards so i can determine what order everything goes back on I would appreciate it.

Thanks for your help

Jeff

Does anyone have a picture of where the radio harness hooks up to the antennas under the running boards. I have tried several connections and nothing but static. Have the ground wire connected to ground, and tried other locations on the other line. any help would be appreciated.

Thanks
Jeff