So today I went to work and was wondering why I wasn't hearing any calls all morning, I took the pager off my belt and looked and all I was getting was "out of range" no matter what channel I went to. Pin is in there, nothing physically I can see wrong with the antenna so I put my Motorola antenna on from a different radio and it works fine. How does an antenna break?
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G5 antenna quit working.
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Have you put the Motorola antenna on the G5 before? Being that the connector on the G5 antenna is somewhat recessed, you might have pushed the pin down in the radio and it's no longer making a connection with the G5 antenna (and why it is on the Motorola antenna).
Just a thought.
Just a thought.
I used the Motorola on the G5 about 6 months ago to listen to a distant site but the stubby has been working all that time until today. Is it okay to pull on the pin to bring it up? Still can't figure why it would just quit today though.
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If this is what indeed happened, it probably reached the point that the pin would no longer connect with the G5 antenna.
If you decide to try to pull it up, you could end up breaking it. What you decide to do is up to you.
There have been other threads about NOT putting different antennas on the G5 for this very reason.
If you decide to try to pull it up, you could end up breaking it. What you decide to do is up to you.
There have been other threads about NOT putting different antennas on the G5 for this very reason.
If your G5 is still under warranty, send it in (via your dealer) and Unication will fix the connector at no charge. And just remember that any antenna you use must have the recessed center socket (look at the connector on the original Unication antenna to see what I mean.)
Not under warranty and probably not the right way to do it but I took the tiniest piece of voice coil wire and stuck it in the antenna hole and got it working again. Now it picks up the distant site I was trying to hear when I had the Motorola antenna on.
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How high should the center pin be on the G5 antenna socket? I could not find an image of it anywhere after a Google search.
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I"m not going to even try to take a photo of it, but the tip of mine is about 2.5mm down from the top edge of the rubber skirt, and the bottom of the connector is 6.25mm down, so I guess the pin (the exposed part) is about 3.75mm long.
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Looks like I am OK then. Thank you! I have used Motorola antennas on it before but I have been careful (and maybe lucky tooo).
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I didn't know I had a 5 year warranty, I'm going to send it in to fix the antenna, the joystick quit working, charging port is loose and it occasionally goes through boot up when I change channels. I got the lucky one, it pretty much just sits there next to my chair on the end table.
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