Kenwood 3301 - Yes or No
- Thread starter JJ's GS
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Hi Rob, yes I've bought the antenna's just waiting for them to be delivered. I found them on this thread
http://www.bikersoracle.com/central/forum/showthread.php?t=4861
and if you skip to page 18, comment number 178 you'll find the latest prices and the person to contact for them. £36 for the full kit of base loaded 1/2 wave antenna, number plate mounting kit, cable etc
I'm just waiting for the adapters to arrive to allow me to have a bnc connector on the radio rather than a screw stud and I found those on ebay for a fiver each.
Justin.
Bohsfc
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Brilliant, Justin, Thanks.
I have been looking around ebay for the adaptors but did not know if it was male or female BNC's that are needed.
My radio is due tomorrow so will look in more detail then.
Rob
This was the one I have ordered.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290343214567&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT
Silver Rat
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Hi Justin,
I too am looking at buying a radio for the bike as 3 of my mates have gone down the road of Kenwood 3201's but reading this thread about the 359, coupled with the external aerial sounds like the way I would like to go too. It would be good too if you could eliminate the 'box' battery, making the radio a very neat solution.
Do you think that there would be any ground loop problems when the radio is bike powered too?
Keith
I too am looking at buying a radio for the bike as 3 of my mates have gone down the road of Kenwood 3201's but reading this thread about the 359, coupled with the external aerial sounds like the way I would like to go too. It would be good too if you could eliminate the 'box' battery, making the radio a very neat solution.
Do you think that there would be any ground loop problems when the radio is bike powered too?
Keith
hi Keith, it certainly does make for a very neat setup when the battery is eliminated. I'm planning a post later in the week on how everything is set up, but for now here's a shot of how it looks sitting in the tray I made up to replace the tool tray.
Haven't spent much time testing it yet, and I have an iphone and the autocom bike powered too. There is some ground loop interference, but I have ground loop eliminator on the iphone output and that seems to do the trick. I think you will have issues but it depends on where it's all mounted, how noisy your bike is and whether there's a y in the month as to how bad it gets for each person. It's certainly not much of an issue on mine but I haven't used it enough yet to say for certain.
Keep an eye out in the mods section later in the week and I'll post up how I built the system together.
J.
Silver Rat
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Hi Justin, How did you manage to arrange power for the 359?
I bought a battery eliminator for another kenwood radio via ebay, for about £7. When it arrived I broke off the plastic casing folded the circuit board and heat sink in half, soldered on extra wires and then potted it up in epoxy. The 359 radio has screw terminals for the battery springs so I just took the springs off, put small ring terminals on the wires and screwed them onto the radio.
In the photo above the power block is the small tape-wrapped bit by the radio. Neat solution, it's wired to the same power fuse on the centech fuse panel as the autocom etc so only turns on when the bike is on. I can just leave it all tucked away and it's there when I need it.
I'll do a proper post on this with more pictures later in the week.
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