Antenna problem

Anchises

Hi,

How can I arrange to play a CD without the motorised antenna going up ?
It saves the gears on the arial motor

When I had a Pioneer , I could play tapes without the arial going up

In my new(er) car . I have a blaupunkt lausanne CD31 radio/cd and I cannot play a CD without the arial going up.
Fitted by the dealer , he says 'they are all like that...' - helpful ! :mad:

I assume the control wire from the unit is fed to the arial and powers up when the unit is turned on. Maybe the unit is just not a sophisticated as my Pioneer was ?

Any ideas ?

Denis

BlueDrax

Had the same problem with all my Blaupunkt's.
The aerial goes up as soon as you turn them on and stays up, even if your listening to mp3's or CD's.

In the end I just installed a switch on the aerial command wire.
( Blue wire, Blaupunkt ISO Block A, Pin 5 )

Now, if I need to listen to the radio, all I have to do is flick the switch and the aerial goes up.

Gryzor

i rarely listen to the radio ...always have the mp3 player connected through the tape deck....so when my ariel broke i didn't care too much.....but due to the ariel not extending, the radio would kick in all the time even if the tape was in....Blaupunkt radio aswell...turned out i had the AF function switched on...so the thing was constantly looking for a signal...drove me nuts till i copped it by accident.... :mad:

Anchises

Thanks for the heads up, BlueDrax - I had guessed that there might be that option.
Wonder why Blaupunkt do it that way. German engineering being what it is an' all

Gryzor - i thought hi tech stuff was here to help us :rolleyes: