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Interesting - sounds like Cadillac is using an "active"(amplified) antenna.
I wonder where the antenna is in the OEM installation?

Patrick

>
> I have a cadilliac radio with GPS built into it.The 2 inch
> diamater antenna
> is put thru speaker in headliner,by drivers head,and resting
> over drivers
> head on headliner.double sided tape keeps it from sliding.The
> fiberglass roof
> panel is over the GPS antenna .ever thing woks fine.Antenna
> is between
> plastic headliner & fiberglass roof.
> At the Forrest city Iowa rally I saw a cadilliac radio
> ,Howard Beckem said he
> would send me a GPS radio .works great.!
>
 
Patrick:

GMC owner Dick Kennedy, is a radio designer for Del??, the former Delco. He
e-mailed me earlier this morning as a result of our discussion on GPS
antenna's, about this very same principle of the GPS antenna possibly being
able to work in the GMC under the front cap, since its fiberglass with the
following:

Have you tried the gps under the fiberglass? If it's thin enough and the
fiberglass is the right composition it may work and if it does that would
sure beat making more holes.
If I ever get around to refurbishing that part I'll attempt to remove all
the antennas from the top and put them under the fiberglass. We've been
doing essentially this on new cars for some time now but I don't have any
personal experience with gps. If I get a chance I'll ask the guys who are
currently working with gps.

Paul Bartz

From: Patrick.Flowers
[mailto:Patrick.Flowers]
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2000 3:22 PM

Interesting - sounds like Cadillac is using an "active"(amplified) antenna.
I wonder where the antenna is in the OEM installation?

I have a cadilliac radio with GPS built into it.The 2 inch diameter antenna
is put thru speaker in headliner,by drivers head,and resting over drivers
head on headliner. double sided tape keeps it from sliding.The fiberglass
roof panel is over the GPS antenna .ever thing woks fine.Antenna is between
plastic headliner & fiberglass roof.
At the Forrest city Iowa rally I saw a cadilliac radio, Howard Beckem said
he would send me a GPS radio .works great.!
 
Paul Bartz

Hold the (GPS) fire on that under the roof. My 73 roof is all aluminum, stem
to stern and my GPS just goes to sleep if held up there

Melvin Shaffer

> Patrick:
>
> GMC owner Dick Kennedy, is a radio designer for Del??, the former Delco. He
> e-mailed me earlier this morning as a result of our discussion on GPS
> antenna's, about this very same principle of the GPS antenna possibly being
> able to work in the GMC under the front cap, since its fiberglass with the
> following:
>
> Have you tried the gps under the fiberglass? If it's thin enough and the
> fiberglass is the right composition it may work and if it does that would
> sure beat making more holes.
> If I ever get around to refurbishing that part I'll attempt to remove all
> the antennas from the top and put them under the fiberglass. We've been
> doing essentially this on new cars for some time now but I don't have any
> personal experience with gps. If I get a chance I'll ask the guys who are
> currently working with gps.
>
> Paul Bartz
>
> From: Patrick.Flowers
> [mailto:Patrick.Flowers]
> Sent: Friday, January 21, 2000 3:22 PM
>
> Interesting - sounds like Cadillac is using an "active"(amplified) antenna.
> I wonder where the antenna is in the OEM installation?

> I have a cadilliac radio with GPS built into it.The 2 inch diameter antenna
> is put thru speaker in headliner,by drivers head,and resting over drivers
> head on headliner. double sided tape keeps it from sliding.The fiberglass
> roof panel is over the GPS antenna .ever thing woks fine.Antenna is between
> plastic headliner & fiberglass roof.
> At the Forrest city Iowa rally I saw a cadilliac radio, Howard Beckem said
> he would send me a GPS radio .works great.!
 
Melvin:

Hate to be the first to tell you, but both the front and rear caps on the
GMC ARE all fiberglass, 73s included.

Paul Bartz

From: Melvin Shaffer [mailto:shafferm]
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2000 3:45 PM

Paul Bartz

Hold the (GPS) fire on that under the roof. My 73 roof is all aluminum,
stem
to stern and my GPS just goes to sleep if held up there

Melvin Shaffer

> Patrick:
>
> GMC owner Dick Kennedy, is a radio designer for Del??, the former Delco.
He
> e-mailed me earlier this morning as a result of our discussion on GPS
> antenna's, about this very same principle of the GPS antenna possibly
being
> able to work in the GMC under the front cap, since its fiberglass with the
> following:
>
> Have you tried the gps under the fiberglass? If it's thin enough and the
> fiberglass is the right composition it may work and if it does that would
> sure beat making more holes.
> If I ever get around to refurbishing that part I'll attempt to remove all
> the antennas from the top and put them under the fiberglass. We've been
> doing essentially this on new cars for some time now but I don't have any
> personal experience with gps. If I get a chance I'll ask the guys who are
> currently working with gps.
>
> Paul Bartz
>
> From: Patrick.Flowers
> [mailto:Patrick.Flowers]
> Sent: Friday, January 21, 2000 3:22 PM
>
> Interesting - sounds like Cadillac is using an "active"(amplified)
antenna.
> I wonder where the antenna is in the OEM installation?

> I have a cadilliac radio with GPS built into it.The 2 inch diameter
antenna
> is put thru speaker in headliner,by drivers head,and resting over drivers
> head on headliner. double sided tape keeps it from sliding.The fiberglass
> roof panel is over the GPS antenna .ever thing woks fine.Antenna is
between
> plastic headliner & fiberglass roof.
> At the Forrest city Iowa rally I saw a cadilliac radio, Howard Beckem said
> he would send me a GPS radio .works great.!
 
Not to mention that all handheld GPSs(including my Tripmate - which
really doesn't qualify as handheld) use passive antennas that are easily
blocked. The Tripmate can't even "see" through the factory bronze tint
on Sharon's Silhouette.

Patrick

>
> Melvin:
>
> Hate to be the first to tell you, but both the front and rear caps on the
> GMC ARE all fiberglass, 73s included.
>
> Paul Bartz
>
> From: Melvin Shaffer [mailto:shafferm]
> Sent: Friday, January 21, 2000 3:45 PM
>
> Paul Bartz
>
> Hold the (GPS) fire on that under the roof. My 73 roof is all aluminum,
> stem to stern and my GPS just goes to sleep if held up there
>
> Melvin Shaffer

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