FM Antenna Location (2017 Limited S)

[seanmclean]

Hello - Quick Question. Where does the factory FM antenna interface with the stock HU? Is it a plug-in type antenna like you get with a car stereo, or is it part of the wire harness? I just finished installing two amps (one to drive in-boat speakers, one to drive towers), and I just buttoned everything up but I have no FM reception. I'll primarily be using bluetooth, but would like to get the radio working again obviously. Just looking for a little intel before I go pull the darn amp board down and try to sort it out.

Amps are wired to distribution blocks on the board, and then direct to the house battery. New wire was run to all speakers, so only tap on the factory radio harness was for remote turn on.

Thanks!

 

[Sbrown]

If its the same as a 2017 AR, the antenna plugs in like a car antenna right next to the black radio module behind the drivers console. Accessed through the storage door in the bow walk-through. The antenna itself is just a wire antenna that runs up underneath the storage area.

 

[seanmclean]

OK cool. Maybe I just knocked it out when I was futzing around in there.

 

[Sbrown]

I was just in there futzing around on mine yesterday. For such a big compartment, it's pretty tight in there.

 

[seanmclean]

Yeah, I'm really envious of the people who fit in there. I'm not one of them, lol.

 

[John Miller]

Can you post some details on how you connected your amps to the head unit? I would like to install a similar setup.