legacycentral bbs

After ensuring that no circuits were shorting out, and that the wires had good continuity between the radio iso block and the antenna iso block, and that nothing was a rusted out hulk, I proceeded to the following step.

I realised the radio's internal driver for the power antenna relay died. Since I do not have the foggiest clue how to disect the head unit and repair the open circuit I worked around the problem.

The workaround that resolved it for me was to find the yellow and red-stripe wire and with a quick connect, wire it to the green/black lead wire on pin 6 of the radio iso block which is the signal for the solenoid of the power antenna

See http://www.graphics.cornell.edu/~v/bcstereo/ for further details

Note on my 1990 subaru legacy ls the yellow/red wire was on the top right hand corner of the smaller iso connector block.


Go go gadget Antenna!

Glad you got it to work again.

To clarify: ripplesouth's radio's internal driver for the power antenna relay died. This is a reasonable workaround -- it just makes the power antenna go up whenever the car's accessories are on.

Just to be safe, I would make sure the power antenna relay wire is no longer connected to the radio if you do this.