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Basic Tips For Car Antenna Installation

Car Audio Blogger — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:38:06 +0000

Although car antennas take five to seven years to be completely useless by becoming rusty or broken but installing an antenna in your car is pretty easy that anyone can do it with some few general tips. Old cars may not have a car antenna but come with an antenna hole that can be used otherwise drilling an antenna hole is also an option. Antennas are needed to be replaced only if they are broken, rusty enough to get an unclear signal or cannot transmit any AM/FM radio stations. In luxurious cars like BMW, Rolls Royce or Lexus it is best to get a professional help while other cars can be installed with an antenna by yourself.

Car Antenna

The importance of car antenna is known to people who do not have one. The main source of entertainment in your car is live FM/AM radio without that you are going to hate long drives and jam packed traffic. Now mostly cars come up with at least an antenna hole if there is not one but you can drill in to make an antenna hole yourself. The general tips needed to install a car antenna start with of course taking out the old one first carefully making sure you do not damage or cut any of the wires. Do not jump to conclusions either a little disturbance in the radio signals does not mean you need a new antenna. Consider changing it only if it is broken, rusty or damaged by some kind of accident.

Now if you have a car which has a can antenna hole but no antenna then what you can do it start by using the Master Sheet of the car to find out the interior wiring and holes. Do not pass the antenna wire through other wiring as the reception of it will be affected. In case of an antenna that came built-in from the factory is to remove the old antenna along with the old wiring. The wires can be pulled out easily from the hole while inserting a new wire requires another personвЂ™s help to get it in the right hole. After that the antenna will come in contact with the exposed hole whereas you can tighten it with a nut to avoid it from falling down.

Car FM Antenna

For installing car antenna mounted between your windshield and front door or on the roof then more or less the same kind of technique is used as mentioned for fender-mount antenna. The wiring of mounted antennas goes till the kick panel area so you would need to remove the kick-panel trim to reach the wires and change them. As for cars that come without a car antenna hole you can do a little research and find out the same location of the cars of the same model. Once you have chosen a location make sure the area under the marked hole is clear. Drill in 1/16″ under the desired location and follow the above steps for installing wires in your car interior.

The basic tips for installing a car antenna are here but for more details and professional help you can consult the manufacturers of your car or a car repairing shop. In my experience you may survive without AM/FM radio for a couple of months may be an year as well but one day or the other you are going to realize how important it is to have live radio in your cars to pass that awful jam packed traffic or boring drives to your work or back home everyday. I believe radio stations are more entertaining than CDs or cassettes as every station is available for sports, news, music, weather etc providing everyone with something.

Motorola T605 Bluetooth Hands-free System

Car Audio Blogger — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 03:52:36 +0000

Motorola Bluetooth Automotive Music & Hands-free System T605
Leveraging Bluetooth hands-free and stereo profiles, the Motorola T605 offers one seamless solution that provides access to digital music and phone calls directly through your carвЂ™s sound system. Enabling each device to be in tune with the other, the Motorola T605 is designed to pause the music when a call comes in and resume the music when the call ends.

The Motorola BluetoothВ® Automotive Music & Hands-free System T605 adds digital music and calls via BluetoothВ® wireless technology to the car’s sound system for a great experience. Hands free calling optimized for the car with digital signal processing for noise reduction, plus volume goes up as background noise increases. The Motorola T605 also integrates streaming music via BluetoothВ® wireless technology, or plug in an MP3 player. Professional installation and adapter harness are sold separately and are recommended for a customized integration with your car sound system that looks as good as it sounds.

Wired, 3.5mm stereo audio input
Line-Level, RCA audio output for music integration into vehicle entertainment system
8pin connection for call audio integration through 3rd party vehicle handsfree adapter harnesses
Speaker level and line-level handsfree audio output
Glowing blue indicator light
Automatic volume. Volume goes up as background noise increases
Advanced Audio Distribution, and Audio Video Remote Control profiles supported

Professional installation and adapter harness are sold separately and are required for a customized integration with your carвЂ™s sound system that looks as good as it sounds. Start your engine – youвЂ™re ready to roll with the Motorola T605!

Bluetooth wireless technology 2.0
Clear sound with latest echo and noise cancellation technology
Volume goes up as background noise increases
Intuitive user interface module
Convenient voice dialing (requires mobile phone with voice tag capability)
3.5mm stereo port for wired music player connection
No charging necessary
Use speaker or car sound system to take calls
Bluetooth music mutes when calls come in and resumes when the call ends*
Bluetooth stereo supports Advanced Audio Distribution Profile (A2DP) and Audio
Video Remote Control Profile (AVRCP)

Requires professional installation!

More info: Direct.motorola.com

Venturi Mini – Bluetooth handsfree kit meets MP3 streaming jukebox, through any FM car stereo

Car Audio Blogger — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:41:05 +0000

Developed by NextGen Venturi, the Venturi Mini is specifically designed to work with music phones and Bluetooth-equipped MP3 players. Boasting full support for Bluetooth 2.0+EDR and A2DP, the Venturi Mini can relay this sound information – both in terms of voice calls and streaming music – through its integrated digital FM transmitter. The transmitter also has RDBS technology for displaying information on your car’s radio screen, including contacts, device menus, and other pertinent data.

The Venturi Mini is a new and unique product combining BluetoothВ® Music streaming with Hands-Free calling and USB style charging. The integrated FM RDS Transmitter streams stereo audio through the in-car sound system for music playback and hands-free. The Venturi Mini requires ZERO INSTALL and simply connects to the cigarette lighter socket in the vehicle making it easily transportable.

The integrated OLED display and high performance microphone enables high quality crystal clear hands-free with the received audio coming through the in car speakers.

Music Streaming

Music can be streamed from a mobile phone using the Bluetooth A2DP profile or a portable music player can be connected via Bluetooth A2DP or directly through the audio in stereo jack.

Hands-Free Bluetooth Audio and Phonebook

Providing high quality audio via the car speakers and crystal clear voice via built-in microphone as well as remote control of your phonebook with dialing activation from the smart interface on the Venturi Mini.

BluetoothВ® Wireless Technology

Featuring Bluetooth v2.0 & state of the art DSP technology for clear hands-free audio and advanced music streaming from your Bluetooth enabled phone or portable music player via smart interface on the Venturi Mini…

FM Transmitter with RDS/RBDS

Sends caller ID and other information to the car radio display for simple and easy call management. The phonebook contents are also displayed on the car radio display along with call status all controlled via smart interface on the Venturi Mini.

Audio In and Out

For complete flexibility the Venturi Mini allows you to connect any device to the audio-in and supplies audio-out for a direct connection to the vehicle stereo system or other audio devices.

Built In Charger

To keep your phone battery and other devices fully charged on the move with the built in 5V, 500mA USB style charger. (Adapter cables not supplied)

It’s also quite notable that the Venturi Mini can pair with up to four devices at the same time, meaning you can have your MP3 player blasting tunes through while the your phone is connected for a call back home. The standard USB style 5v port provides an area where you can simultaneously charge your devices too. Regular MP3 players an make use of the audio-in socket. If your car’s stereo has an aux-in jack, you can make use of the audio-out on the Venturi Mini for a wired connection too. That’s probably better quality than FM anyways.

Look for the Venturi Mini to ship next month with an MSRP of $129.