Re: My antenna won't stay down...watchit there Bob D'A ;-\

[i6941TB@gnn.com]

>Anyone seen this one before: I come out to my car, the antenna is
>up but the radio is off. Huummm thinks I, this is strange. Turn on the >radio the 
>antenna makes noises like it going up but it's already up. Turn >off radio and 
>the antenna goes down...OK. Start car and go to drive away >and hear the antenna 
>going up again...radio is still off. Cycle radio and >antenna goes down again.
>Drive to my sister's house, stay a couple of hours come out and the durn
>antenna's up again. Drive to the university get out of the car, close the
>door and right in front of me the antenna goes up again.

Are you sure that the car's name is not "Cristine" ;-)

>Now, I know there is probably a short somewhere, but do y'all think it's in the 
>radio itself or in the wiring somewhere?? After poking around for a while I also 
>determined that the rear driver's side(US) speaker appears to be dead. Have any 
>of you seen this one before?

Yes, many times on various cars.

The majority of power antennas have two power leads: one is permanent and one is 
switchable. When the radio is off, the perm pwr and gnd drive the mast home (there 
is a "home" switch that disconnects the perm power lead once the mast is fully 
collapsed).

When you turn the radio on the ant gets also the switchable pwr, that reverses it 
forcing it to fully extend.

Check that lead and also presence of +12v on the switchable lead of the radio. it 
looks intermittened to me.

Igor