mweiss
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I have the dash center console all disassembled, the weather is clouding up with heaving rain in the forecast, and I've discovered that the Ford adapter kit the online vendor sold me with the Kenwood DNX5140 Navigation/entertainment system lacks the necesssary antenna adapter. The '06 Ford has an an AM/FM antenna connector that is unlike any I've seen since 1948. The Kenwood has the age old standard Motorola connector, so they don't plug together.
I got only a power/speaker plug adapter which I soldered to the radio harness that came with the Kenwood.
But I also see that there is an extra multipin plug that has nowhere to go on the Kenwood, so it is just dangling. I don't know if that's needed or not to make the Kenwood function.
But the show stopper is that I cannot hook up the radio antenna, and I've called around to a few audio installers and no one has this adapter in stock. I thought of splicing the coax together, but I don't want to void the warranty on the Kenwood or the Explorer by modifying any wiring.
Has anyone dealt with this antenna connector compatibility before?
And what about the extra multipin connector? There's no place to connect it on the new unit. Ford has two multipin connectors for the factory radio. The adapter that came with the Ford install kit for the Kenwood fits the larger of the two connectors only.
It's starting to rain, so I gotta wrap this up pronto. I'm heading to Radio Shack to see if they have anything that will match up...
I got only a power/speaker plug adapter which I soldered to the radio harness that came with the Kenwood.
But I also see that there is an extra multipin plug that has nowhere to go on the Kenwood, so it is just dangling. I don't know if that's needed or not to make the Kenwood function.
But the show stopper is that I cannot hook up the radio antenna, and I've called around to a few audio installers and no one has this adapter in stock. I thought of splicing the coax together, but I don't want to void the warranty on the Kenwood or the Explorer by modifying any wiring.
Has anyone dealt with this antenna connector compatibility before?
And what about the extra multipin connector? There's no place to connect it on the new unit. Ford has two multipin connectors for the factory radio. The adapter that came with the Ford install kit for the Kenwood fits the larger of the two connectors only.
It's starting to rain, so I gotta wrap this up pronto. I'm heading to Radio Shack to see if they have anything that will match up...