Hidden antenna
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Racer
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From: North Alabama
St. Jude Donor '24-'26
Hidden antenna
Anyone have any experience with these? http://www.tunetrapper.com/Hidden_Car_Antennas.html I closed off the hole for the fender antenna for a cleaner look and ws thinking about using one of these under the dash. Thoughts?
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Here ya' go....................................
https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums...hidden+antenna
I'm thinking hidden myself (not myself......just the antenna)
https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums...hidden+antenna
I'm thinking hidden myself (not myself......just the antenna)
Racer
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I installed a Tunetrapper brand hidden antenna in the headliner on my '34 Ford Couple hotrod. The car has it's OEM style fabric insert in the top and seems to allow good radio reception while remaining totally hidden. FWIW, I also hid the radio in the glove box for a stealth installation in the Coupe. I imagine that the Tunetrapper would work fine in the C3 application.
Jim
Jim
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Racer
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St. Jude Donor '24-'26
I installed a Tunetrapper brand hidden antenna in the headliner on my '34 Ford Couple hotrod. The car has it's OEM style fabric insert in the top and seems to allow good radio reception while remaining totally hidden. FWIW, I also hid the radio in the glove box for a stealth installation in the Coupe. I imagine that the Tunetrapper would work fine in the C3 application.
Jim
Jim
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Jim, That's a good looking hotrod. Is it a steel or fiberglass body? I ask because Tunetrapper recommends a clearance of at least 3/4 inch from any solid steel. I was considering placing it behind the A-pillar trim or above the T-top headliner piece, but that's gonna be pretty close to the steel of the birdcage. I take it you had no functional issue going above the headliner with that fabric insert even if its a steel body?
It's a 100% steel "Henry Ford" body! You are correct about the Tunetrapper being attached to the oak bows in the area between the fabric top insert and the headliner. There is "chicken wire" in there to support the top padding, but it appears to have no effect on radio reception.
Jim
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I installed mine horizontally on the top inside of the left rear wheel well, inside of a length of PVC water pipe, fiber glassing the pipe into place. I routed the coax through the original grommet. Be sure to get as long a connector as possible (as I recall, there was an optional longer cable - get it). I had JUST enough to make mine work.
It works just fine.
It works just fine.
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What did you plug the hole in the body with??
Vetfever
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I installed mine horizontally on the top inside of the left rear wheel well, inside of a length of PVC water pipe, fiber glassing the pipe into place. I routed the coax through the original grommet. Be sure to get as long a connector as possible (as I recall, there was an optional longer cable - get it). I had JUST enough to make mine work.
It works just fine.
It works just fine.
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I ground down both sides of the hole from the original antenna and used glass mat and epoxy resin, sanded, primed, etc.
Because there is SMC panels in almost all (may be all) C3's, I make it a point to use ONLY epoxy resin (from West Systems). When I need filler, I mix up the epoxy resin and add their 410 microfiber for fairing. You can make it the consistency of peanut butter. It sticks and cures like epoxy and sands very easily.
Because there is SMC panels in almost all (may be all) C3's, I make it a point to use ONLY epoxy resin (from West Systems). When I need filler, I mix up the epoxy resin and add their 410 microfiber for fairing. You can make it the consistency of peanut butter. It sticks and cures like epoxy and sands very easily.
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I ground down both sides of the hole from the original antenna and used glass mat and epoxy resin, sanded, primed, etc.
Because there is SMC panels in almost all (may be all) C3's, I make it a point to use ONLY epoxy resin (from West Systems). When I need filler, I mix up the epoxy resin and add their 410 microfiber for fairing. You can make it the consistency of peanut butter. It sticks and cures like epoxy and sands very easily.
Because there is SMC panels in almost all (may be all) C3's, I make it a point to use ONLY epoxy resin (from West Systems). When I need filler, I mix up the epoxy resin and add their 410 microfiber for fairing. You can make it the consistency of peanut butter. It sticks and cures like epoxy and sands very easily.
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From: Feverish All Over
I ground down both sides of the hole from the original antenna and used glass mat and epoxy resin, sanded, primed, etc.
Because there is SMC panels in almost all (may be all) C3's, I make it a point to use ONLY epoxy resin (from West Systems). When I need filler, I mix up the epoxy resin and add their 410 microfiber for fairing. You can make it the consistency of peanut butter. It sticks and cures like epoxy and sands very easily.
Because there is SMC panels in almost all (may be all) C3's, I make it a point to use ONLY epoxy resin (from West Systems). When I need filler, I mix up the epoxy resin and add their 410 microfiber for fairing. You can make it the consistency of peanut butter. It sticks and cures like epoxy and sands very easily.