Thread: hidden am/fm antennas, do they work???

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I've used the single wire that plugs into the radio antenna socket on several boats I owned, and they work fine in a fiberglass enclosure, but not sure about the metal of a car. I know some cars had the radio antenna imbedded in the windshield glass and those worked well.......I owned a few of those cars myself and never had a problem.

I also saw in one magazine where they laid a regular car antenna under a running board of a fat fendered car, and said it worked ok. Why don't you experiment? Plug in a regular antenna and lay it in various spots in the car and see how it works.

My Son Dan did boat electronic installs, and also did car stereo systems for a living at one time. He is sleeping now, but tomorrow I'll ask him what he knows about this and let you know.

Don

Oh, I just heard Dan moving around in the kitchen and asked him about this for you. He said the single wire jobbies work perfect in a car, he did a bunch of them with that. You can pick these up lots of places, but marine stores like West Marine carry them and they cost like $ 5.00 or less. It is simply a regular antenna end plug (like all antennas have) soldered on about a 3 foot length of electric wire. He said you can loom it under the dash or whatever, and try to make the wire as straight as possible.