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    Posted: 20 Oct 2019 at 4:47pm
thanks, downloaded the Magnadyne Install Manual to determine ease of adapting, seems fairly straight forward. I haven't been a fan of the distribution switch that came with my Pod. Constant issues with amplifier ON/Off switching. Not a big issue to adapt AM/FM ANT.
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Posts: 6326 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 20 Oct 2019 at 4:02pm
Glad to help. I noticed that the links got messed up somehow so I fixed them.

I don't know if the wiring in the Magnadyne model is the same as the 1byone model I purchased. I found that I needed to purchase an extension for the FM radio connector. Also, I needed to change the switch plate because the bat wing antenna was powered differently than the 1byone model. The Magnadyne may be more like the bat wing when it comes to the power connection, at least from what I see on the page.
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Posts: 3419 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 20 Oct 2019 at 8:15am
Thanks SH.
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Posts: 6326 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 19 Oct 2019 at 8:55pm
This is the one I installed:
Unfortunately, it is currently unavailable. I think it works a little better than the bat wing. One thing that is definitely better is that without the wings, it does not get caught on things as easily. Nor does it rattle in the wind. This one looks to be equivalent:
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Posts: 3419 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 19 Oct 2019 at 4:58pm
SH - What antenna did you replace your batwing with, any issues?
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Posts: 87 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 19 Oct 2019 at 12:11pm
My first clue that the installed bolts were not right was the washers and locking washer stacks installed at both the head and tail ends of each bolt.
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I did the bolt replacement with locking nuts. Works more better.
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Posts: 6326 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18 Oct 2019 at 7:53pm
That and likely, the rubber gasket that should be in the socket is probably missing. That also helps stabilize the antenna. If you look in my mods, I got rid of the bat wing antenna in favor of a flying saucer design that works at least as good, if not better, than the bat wing antenna.
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Posts: 2654 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 17 Oct 2019 at 10:48pm
Yup. That is on my to do list. On our last trip, we were out by the coast, and the rocking antenna (with the coastal breeze) just about drove me nutz. Short drive, I know, but that's what I got.
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The television antenna on our 2016 179 has always rocked a little, bothersome in any wind. Today I checked the connection and found it held by two metric bolts with 10mm nuts; too small a diameter to fill the mounting holes and allowing significant flop. I replace them both with larger, 1/4” x 20 bolts which made the antenna solid.

The skinny bolts were clearly not what the manufacturer intended with their mold, looking to me like a mistaken manufacturing substitution.

Anyone else see this?

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