impalassdude Posted October 2, 2010 Report Share Posted October 2, 2010 is there a way to disable the auto antenna fuction? i have the blue auto ant wire hooked up to my power ant lead but my ant goes up everytime i start the car with the radio off. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
1loudls Posted October 6, 2010 Report Share Posted October 6, 2010 well the blue wire should only get power when the radio is on, so either your D3 is sending voltage out all of the time(defective radio), the wrong wire is hooked up (install error), or the car controls the antenna itself with out the radio doing anything (you may have to re-wire the power going to the antenna) option one can be fixed by adding a switch, option two can be fixed by checking the wiring, and option three may be able to be re-wired, but depending on the type of car that it is this may be very difficult. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
impalassdude Posted October 6, 2010 Author Report Share Posted October 6, 2010 This is in a 94 impala ss.the blue wire and the amp wire has power coming out of it even with tge radio off.as long as the key is on.I did hook it up to a. switch.that works but I know its not right.after reading the manual I thought there was a way to turn that feature off in the menu of the radio? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
1loudls Posted October 6, 2010 Report Share Posted October 6, 2010 This is in a 94 impala ss.the blue wire and the amp wire has power coming out of it even with tge radio off.as long as the key is on.I did hook it up to a. switch.that works but I know its not right.after reading the manual I thought there was a way to turn that feature off in the menu of the radio? i believe the the amp wire is supposed to have voltage all the time so the beeps can be heard for the nav side even if the audio side is off, but the antenna wire shouldnt, you should be able to go into the menu and turn the antenna from "power" to "radio" and then the antenna should be up only when the radio is the selected source and not any other time Quote Link to post Share on other sites
impalassdude Posted October 6, 2010 Author Report Share Posted October 6, 2010 This is in a 94 impala ss.the blue wire and the amp wire has power coming out of it even with tge radio off.as long as the key is on.I did hook it up to a. switch.that works but I know its not right.after reading the manual I thought there was a way to turn that feature off in the menu of the radio? i believe the the amp wire is supposed to have voltage all the time so the beeps can be heard for the nav side even if the audio side is off, but the antenna wire shouldnt, you should be able to go into the menu and turn the antenna from "power" to "radio" and then the antenna should be up only when the radio is the selected source and not any other time thats what i want.can you tell me how do find that menu? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
1loudls Posted October 7, 2010 Report Share Posted October 7, 2010 im really not sure, since i havens played around with a N-series in a while, the F-series that im most used to have completely different menu structures, but i thought it was still there in all the older units as well, go into your system settings (not the nav settings) and look for a option called ant cont, or antenna control, if its there it should have the options of radio and power, it should be set to radio Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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