on glass before tinting ?

dvpman · Post by **dvpman** » Mon Apr 21, 2003 7:07 am

Hi,

Just bought a 2002 Jetta and want to mount a on glass 800mhz but will be getting the windows tinted this week. What's the best thing to do here, wait till the tinting has dried and then should I cut out a piece of the tint to mount the box or just straight through the tint ?

thanks for any replys.

Mike

Macon Sparks · Post by **Macon Sparks** » Mon Apr 21, 2003 7:32 am

Mount the antenna and let the tint installer cut around the box.

Don't go through the tint:

1 - The (inside) box won't have a good surface to hold to

2 - Some tints reduce the signal

dawson75 · Post by **dawson75** » Mon Apr 21, 2003 1:23 pm

dont use thru the glass crap use hole mount or magnet!!! just my 0.2 ccents ...ive had bad experience with glass mount

jim · Post by **jim** » Mon Apr 21, 2003 8:21 pm

800 glass mount will work fine as long as it's a good quality antenna. You MAY go through tint as long as the tint isn't made using a conductive tinting material (carbon or metallic powder).
If it's a gray shaded tint, these are usally just dye-tinted.

JAYMZ · Post by **JAYMZ** » Tue Apr 22, 2003 4:55 am

I'm probably going to get some flaming for this....but.....

For UHF I use a Radio Shack on glass dual band antenna... They are meant to be dual band antennas but it works very very nicely on UHF.

I tried my radio with that antenna and a trunk lip mount that I have. I also tried a duplexer as well. Duplexer killed the receive on both VHF and UHF... The trunk lip mount received well but that was meant more for my VHF radio(antenna is a comtelco dual band cell look alike) With my UHF Spectra tuned down to 35 watts I can still hit a repeater on the other side of the county without trouble.

So just from using it it works well. Although I would suggest that the less the signal has to pass through the better. Tint around it after it's installed.