Hidden Antenna?

[Chris Pauluk]

The antenna hole was welded in before I got the car and there is no antenna in/on the car. 

Is there a hidden antenna that works worth a crap?

Thanks. 

[turbostang7]

there are a few out there that work OK, I thought about hiding an original antennae somewhere, but if you bury it under metal they don't work well under glass works much better. Maybe hide it in the rear bumper??

[jason340]

I have one on my 69 Camaro ZL1 and it does not work worth crap.

[Chris Pauluk]

Are yours non amplified?

Sent from my SGH-M919 using Tapatalk

[Fern]

I had one in an old jeep I  had.  It was amplified and worked ok, but it had a slight static noise to it. If I turned the amplified part off it stopped the static but got terrible reception

[jason340]

Mine was amplified. It has a small black box prox 1"X1"X4" I glued to the upper rt corner of the windshield at the A pillar.

[Chris Pauluk]

Mine was amplified. It has a small black box prox 1"X1"X4" I glued to the upper rt corner of the windshield at the A pillar.

Work well?
What brand?

Sent from my SGH-M919 using Tapatalk

[jason340]

Previous post, does not work worth a crap. I don't remember the mfg. I gave up on finding a good one, all the info I have seen says they just don't work well.

[Tazinhawaii]

I bought a $5 powered hidden antenna from eBay and I think I got ripped off.  That's how bad it is/was.  So today I came up with an idea.  I took the original antenna, slid the mast inside a 1/2" rubber hose (to insulate it from the metal of the car) and put it behind the grill.  It's unrecognizable as it looks like a hose running from one side of the nose to the other when you look down in front of the radiator and completely hidden from the front of the car.  Best of all, it works GREAT!  Picks up even the weak stations.  Just some food for thought.

Derrick

[Chris Pauluk]

Great Idea Derrick

Sent from my SGH-M919 using Tapatalk

[larry4406]

I bought a $5 powered hidden antenna from eBay and I think I got ripped off.  That's how bad it is/was.  So today I came up with an idea.  I took the original antenna, slid the mast inside a 1/2" rubber hose (to insulate it from the metal of the car) and put it behind the grill.  It's unrecognizable as it looks like a hose running from one side of the nose to the other when you look down in front of the radiator and completely hidden from the front of the car.  Best of all, it works GREAT!  Picks up even the weak stations.  Just some food for thought.

Derrick

Can you post some pictures of this and how you mounted the antenna base?  Obviously you had to by a cable extension and how did you route it?

[Tazinhawaii]

I'll try to get a pic, but I don't know if I'll be able to get in there that good with the camera.  I simply laid the antenna (almost fully extended) with the base under the passenger side headlights and the tip under the driver's side headlights.  Then tie wrap it in place.  The key though is that the mast has to be insulated.  That's where the rubber hose comes in.  Simply slide the hose over the mast before installing the antenna.  I did buy a 4ft extension cable from Advance auto parts (about $5).  The hardest part of this was routing the cable.  From the stock hole in the kickboard area, I went through what I'll call a splash guard in the back of the passenger wheel well.  Then tie wrapped it to the upper brace in the wheel well and used some cable clamps attached to the bottom of the fender mounting bolts poking through the top of the wheel well.  Then simply to the antenna base under the headlights.  I went form not being able to hear radio stations in the next town over to listening to my station from the next State over. 

Derrick

[AARuFAST]

I assume that you are concerned about your AAR.
I like the antenna on the rear deck on AAR's
Have a body shop drill the hole out and mount the correct antenna.

[Chris Pauluk]

I don't have  an AAR, previous owners did a 70 AAR clone of it..  It's a 73.. 
There's no place for an antenna..    So that's why I'm doing it this way..   
I never understood the reason for the AAR's to be rear mounted..   
It was unnecessary..

I assume that you are concerned about your AAR.
I like the antenna on the rear deck on AAR's
Have a body shop drill the hole out and mount the correct antenna.

[73440]

It was because of the fiberglass hood.