Re: <e36> Cabrio Radio Antenna

[Chip Baines <ebaines@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This antenna sounds exactly like the antenna that is in my '97 328iC (convertible).
Unlike other e36's of that vintage, the convertible does not use the 3-element antenna
design with the automatic switching feature (which I understand from previous posts is
located in the C pillar area).  Since the convertible doesn't have a glass rear window,
it can't use the defogger heater wires for an antenna.  Would you happen to know if the
convertible does indeed use this Harada antenna?  TIA.

- -Chip Baines
BMW CCA
'97 328iC
'85 528e

Rod wrote:

> I may have a good replacement antenna for the factory amplified "swept"
> style black antennas.  (antennae?)

> <snip>
> The antenna I have here, the Harada version, is about 18" overall, from
> antenna tip, to far tip of angled base. At the base, it has a large nut
> which I assume secures it from some accessible area underneath the antenna's
> mounting position on the roof.  There is a standard antenna lead (actually
> the "Motorola" aftermarket standard style, by far the most common in the
> USA), and it's about 8" long to it's very tip, and there is a separate, red
> 18 gauge wire lead which must be connected to a "switched" source to turn on
> the small antenna amplifier, this lead is also about 8" long.

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