Re: Defeating Gamma Radio Anti Theft Feature

[Andrew Duane USG/PE <duane@zk3.dec.com>]

Hairy green toads from Mars made Kent Crossley say:

> I am trying to rewire my wife's '93 90csq gamma radio so that it will
> turn on and off with the ignition switch. When I interrupt the power to
> the radio it goes into the "safe" mode which it is supposed to do and
> requires the entry of code to restore its function.  My problem is that
> I don't want this to happen.  Has anybody figured out how to do this? Or
> is this going to be yet another reason to go look at a Kenwood
> replacement unit? 

Why would you want to rewire it that way? I hate having to turn on
my ignition just to listen to the radio.

Anyway, I'm pretty sure it's impossible to turn off "safe" mode.
Most units like that have two powers: one permanent, one switched.
Since the Audi units aren't designed to be switched, they only have
one power input.

Get a Kenwood; it'll sound 13,572.1% better.


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