mikej
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I spent some time installing my WeBoost and routing the cables as best I could to keep them hidden. I couldn't find step by step pictures on either routing the external antenna from the rack to the inside or for routing the internal cable inside the sport bar. So I'll try and walk through the install process with plenty of pictures.
First, the outside antenna. The mast is attached to a Rhino Rack folding aerial bracket onto my Pioneer.
Found an issue though, with it folded down, it's going to bounce off the platform because of the spring mount. I think I want the spring, so I'll just have to strap the antenna down. I'll need to find a better strap that can deal with the sun, though.
The cable for the external antenna runs along side the hinge, and then I pulled off the weather stripping and pushed the cable inside of it.
And then out around where the weatherstripping changes from the hardtop to the tub.
It's tucked into the tub weatherstripping, and out through the interior panel. I have the AAL floor, so it was easy to just tuck under the platform. But if you don't have the platform, I'm sure it's easy to just tuck under the panel with the tie down rings.
The WeBoost box itself is attached with heavy duty velcro to the back of my AAL drawers. (This is the carrier for the box)
For power, it's just plugged into my Dometic power outlet with its cigarette lighter plug. I may change this later, but it works for now. Here's the box with the power and the external antenna plugged in.
The internal antenna is attached between the rear view mirror and windshield with 3M command strips (they have cool black ones now).
For hiding the wire from the internal antenna, I dropped the windshield and pushed the wire into the channel there.
Then pop the plastic panel off of the passenger side sport bar.
I thought about running the cable just inside the plastic, but it was going to be difficult to get back through the sound bar area, so I did the hard work to fish it through the center of the bar. And it comes back out above the rear seat.
I routed the cable down through the Rhino Rack Backbone frame. And in this picture, you see that the inside antenna cable is /just/ a little too short. I bought an extension cable from WeBoost, and rather annoyingly, it's SMA but the cables for the WeBoost antennas are SMB. Sigh. So, I have adapters on the way. The extension just runs under the fender carpet and under the AAL platform.
Once the adapters arrive, I'm all set!
First, the outside antenna. The mast is attached to a Rhino Rack folding aerial bracket onto my Pioneer.
Found an issue though, with it folded down, it's going to bounce off the platform because of the spring mount. I think I want the spring, so I'll just have to strap the antenna down. I'll need to find a better strap that can deal with the sun, though.
The cable for the external antenna runs along side the hinge, and then I pulled off the weather stripping and pushed the cable inside of it.
And then out around where the weatherstripping changes from the hardtop to the tub.
It's tucked into the tub weatherstripping, and out through the interior panel. I have the AAL floor, so it was easy to just tuck under the platform. But if you don't have the platform, I'm sure it's easy to just tuck under the panel with the tie down rings.
The WeBoost box itself is attached with heavy duty velcro to the back of my AAL drawers. (This is the carrier for the box)
For power, it's just plugged into my Dometic power outlet with its cigarette lighter plug. I may change this later, but it works for now. Here's the box with the power and the external antenna plugged in.
The internal antenna is attached between the rear view mirror and windshield with 3M command strips (they have cool black ones now).
For hiding the wire from the internal antenna, I dropped the windshield and pushed the wire into the channel there.
Then pop the plastic panel off of the passenger side sport bar.
I thought about running the cable just inside the plastic, but it was going to be difficult to get back through the sound bar area, so I did the hard work to fish it through the center of the bar. And it comes back out above the rear seat.
I routed the cable down through the Rhino Rack Backbone frame. And in this picture, you see that the inside antenna cable is /just/ a little too short. I bought an extension cable from WeBoost, and rather annoyingly, it's SMA but the cables for the WeBoost antennas are SMB. Sigh. So, I have adapters on the way. The extension just runs under the fender carpet and under the AAL platform.
Once the adapters arrive, I'm all set!
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