Recent purchase of CHP Parts
 

this was in the box of CHP parts I just bought. Its made by Antenna Specialties. Any idea what it is?

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also got the shotgun release timer and buttons..


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GE RANGR parts..

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I allready had a set of theese but theese ones have a plug on the end of some sort..

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this was labeled as "wig wag harness"

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more wires.
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antenna that I have no use for. I think this was on cars without the whip antenna??

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all of this stuff came from Robert Read and was not at all cheap.

Very nice. :)

I'll take a guess on the first one.....there's an antenna "junction box" that CHP uses between the radio and scanner antenna. Geoff Fors sent me a bunch of information on them awhile back, but they were supposedly home-made, using off-the-shelf parts, and still in-service (not yet surplused, like the RANGR stuff). Maybe it has something to do with those?

My '82 still has a decal with a picture of the box in the trunk.

I was told by the seller that he was sending me something to run the scanner off of the whip antenna..maybe this is what it is?

Exactly. That's the same info I got from Geoff. Here is a picture of the decal in my trunk. I think you called it right with the antenna, too.

Thanks for the pic Mike. I guess it was not home made after all. This one is made by Antenna Specialties or maybe its Antenna Specialists.

No prob...I think what Geoff meant is that the components were name-brand, but assembled by CHP (ie. you couldn't buy the thing off the shelf). He sent me a few different manufacturers of the boxes themselves (not the components, just the case), but I haven't had a chance to dig any deeper.

Chris, I just hooked up my whip directly to my scanner as its the only functional radio in the car. What did you get for the shotgun lock timer? I still need to add one to mine.

I would agree with Mike. That looks like the switch CHP used to allow the scanner to share the Lo-band VHF antenna. I've never seen one, but that looks about like what has been described to me by other people.

As for the antenna, based on the size of the load (the black base), I'd say that is the roof-mount Lo-band antenna that replaced the whip. Since your box contained the red/blue Signalmasters that were part of the new rear deck system, I'd guess that your equipment came off a newer-gen car that did NOT have the whip.

David

Chris,
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