I am looking to delete the antenna, any suggestions for a good alternative? Also anyone with shark fine antenna's installed?

Just use the one that's already in the rear screen.

Just use the one that's already in the rear screen.

 

Never noticed this. What's the purpose of it?

Never noticed this. What's the purpose of it?

 

Nissan over-engineering it. If you look at your rear screen you'll see there's 2 elements. 1 being the rear window demister and the other being an aerial. The outer of the two being the aerial. There are 2 wires that will feed into the back of the head unit on a special plug - that incorporates both the body antenna and the screen antenna.

Edited September 23, 201510 yr by Funkysi
Shameful spelling.

The rear screen aerial is pretty poor in comparison to the 20ft tall telescopic one! If you want decent radio reception after deleting the telescopic aerial, shoot for a DAB receiver head unit that comes with a decent antenna.

Or just keep the oem retro electric aerial :yes:

Just use the one that's already in the rear screen.

 

I went in this direction too, although I've not actually used the radio so I can't report on the reception.

 

I looked at fitting a sharks fin to the hole in the rear hatch glass left by the rear washer, it didn't fit so well but maybe another type would fit there. Are you deleting the rear wiper?

 

Another option is an internal antenna like this

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Convertible-Classic-Car-interior-radio-AM-FM-aerial-internal-vintage-/300937193481?hash=item4611412809

I use the rear screen aerial in mine, and reception is fine. My old skyline had the same setup, so had switched them over ans removed the electric aerial years ago. Never had an issue with reception, though admittedly I do just listen to mp3's more often than not.

 

To switch them over, get behind your head unit and follow the aerial lead back. You should find a cylindrical plug, which you can unplug and rotate 180 degrees, then plug back in again so that it uses the other aerial. Then just disconnect the aerial activation wire, or just unplug it in the boot, to stop the electric one from rising. Mine's been smoothed out now. :)

If I ever get a DAB head unit and need to add another aerial, I have the rear screen washer nozzle hole spare. :)

It's known as the diversity aerial by the way, in case anyone was wondering.

The rear screen aerial is pretty poor in comparison to the 20ft tall telescopic one! If you want decent radio reception after deleting the telescopic aerial, shoot for a DAB receiver head unit that comes with a decent antenna.

 

Yes and yes......

 

.....When my telescopic aerial failed, FM reception was piss poor, so forget the second one in the rear screen. I have a Kenwood DAB unit, with a little plastic receiver in the top left of the windscreen and the reception is very good. In fact, it's often better than the DAB reception I get in my daily drive - which has DAB fitted from the factory!!

Yes and yes......

 

.....When my telescopic aerial failed, FM reception was piss poor, so forget the second one in the rear screen. I have a Kenwood DAB unit, with a little plastic receiver in the top left of the windscreen and the reception is very good. In fact, it's often better than the DAB reception I get in my daily drive - which has DAB fitted from the factory!!

Of course it was, the aerial in the rear screen isn't even connected until you reverse the plug. ;)

Of course it was, the aerial in the rear screen isn't even connected until you reverse the plug. ;)

 

Well done you! That'll teach me to read the whole of the thread before offering a response....:biggrin:

Of course it was, the aerial in the rear screen isn't even connected until you reverse the plug. ;)

 

What does this plug look like that you need to reverse?

What does this plug look like that you need to reverse?

It looks like this mate:

 

 

Two pins, one for the electric aerial and one for the screen aerial. Our head units over here don't use this connector, so you get a conversion harness. Two aerials go in, only one comes out to go to the head unit. That one is the electric aerial, with the screen aerial left going nowhere. The plug can simply be flipped around to use the other one. Won't clip in any more, but it won't fall out. Conversion done. :)

Ah I see. I thought that was just 2 into 1 fro both aerials. I'll flip mine round and see if it improves [emoji106]

Some people decide to chop this plug off and convert it to use our plug instead. In that case, you're stuffed unless you can find the other cable floating around and can put a plug on it. There's also a chance uk models didn't have the aerial in the rear screen in thr first place, I don't have a uk model to know. But in theory you can do this to most imported nissans of the era.

Ah I see. I thought that was just 2 into 1 fro both aerials. I'll flip mine round and see if it improves [emoji106]

I had no reception issues in the skyline, put it that way. That said, I usually listened to radio 1 if I wasn't listening to mp3's, which is normally a good signal wherever you go anyway.

The reason there's two aerials in the first place, is one was for FM, and the other was for AM. But the AM aerial in the screen does a good enough job of picking up our FM frequencies anyway. :)

Thanks all for the suggestions. I think dougal200 suggestion sounds like a good one, to use a internal ariel mounted maybe in the boot. How about an internal one mounted in the same place were the stock ariel is removed, therefore it is hidden? Are the internal ones any good?

 

BTW: dougal200 love the alloys, what are they? and what size?

 

Startthefish and dougal200 - Your deletion looking good!! I am now more certain I want to do it.

There's also a chance uk models didn't have the aerial in the rear screen in thr first place, I don't have a uk model to know. But in theory you can do this to most imported nissans of the era.

 

UK spec cars have the diversity tuner with the rear screen and telescopic aerials.

Toshio Yamashita (Z32 designer) went to a lot of trouble to get the antenna placed where it is on the rear wing.

 

Engineering wanted it here:

 

 

I like Toshio's determination to get the design right, so I'm happy with the telescopic aerial even if it is a little dated.