Re: Radio Antenna or Antennas on 200QW

[Dave Ohlemacher <Dave@ohlemacher.com>]

BTDT

Here's what I found out so far. The sedan has a front antenna booster and and a
rear antenna amplifier, the wagon only has the rear antenna amplifier. The
front antenna is for FM only and the rear is for both AM/FM.  So what the wagon
folks will run into is a "missing" lead out of the radio for the front antenna
and if you take the passenger A-pillar off you will find the loose connector
from the front windshield.

You could do what I did and that was spend $25 on the cable to go from the
radio to the (I know now) front antenna booster, but there is no booster (at
least that I have found and I can safely say that I had the dash 85% out
looking, so if it's in there, it's well hidden!) I went ahead and spliced the
cable from the radio to the windsheild cable and the FM reception is a bit
better (staions that used to come in 60 miles away now come in 70 miles away -
yes that sounds far, but picture Indiana and Ohio = flat), but only when
heading towards the city, same reception heading away from the source.

Probably not worth the $25 and effort to do it.

Does that mean we wagon owners can save some money on replacement windshields
by getting ones without the built in antennas?

Dave
91 200TQW

Eckfeldt wrote:

> I recently had my radio out of the dash on my '91 200QW and noticed that
> there was only one antenna cable connected, but the radio has 2 connections
> and there is the rear antenna as well as the windshield antenna. I couldn't
> find any other cable down inside the dash. My question is did Audi only use
> one antenna on the wagon as it is external or am I missing a cable due to a
> previous owner's windshield replacement?
>
> TIA
> Grant Eckfeldt
> eckfeldtg@snet.net
>
> '87 5KCSTQ (287K)
> '91 200QW