All,
Just installed Alpine CDA 9815 in my 2005 Forester X and got weak FM reception. I'm using a wire harness from Cructhfield. On the factory harness, wire 14 (I've listed the pinouts below)is for Motor Antenna. From studying a couple of diagrams I found on ScoobyMods, I'm pretty confident that wire 14 is the Antenna Booster for the window antenna. My question is, can I simply connect this wire to the Power Antenna wire on the radio or will I need to find an alternate source to power it? I have no idea what voltage is required to power the booster, nor do I know what voltage is coming from the Power Antenna wire from the radio - about to call Alpine and find out.
Layout of the connector
6 5 4 3 2 1
14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7
- Ilumi (+)
- Front SP, Rch (+)
- Front SP, Lch (+)
- Rear SP, Rch (+)
- Rear SP, Lch (+)
- Power Supply, +B
- Illumi. (-)
- Front SP, Rch (-)
- Front SP, Lch (-)
- Power Supply, ACC
- Ground
- Rear Sp, Rch (-)
- Rear SP Lch (-)
- Motor Antenna