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Xtl2500 Speaker
- Thread starter Chesky
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The mobile radio audio in my old company car was wired to the vehicle onboard audio speaker system. The answer is yes but it has to be properly engineered. It's just speaker audio levels that need to be matched and/or properly amplified accordingly.
Project25_MASTR
Millennial Graying OBT Guy
No. That's amplified audio...and it's a push pull PA so when you connect it to your AM/FM either one of two things will happen...you'll blow the input out if sleeve is isolated from DC ground or you'll short the PA on the radio out and not have any audio anymore.
Use the accessory connector and pull RX_Audio if you really want to hook it up to your car's AM/FM.
Use the accessory connector and pull RX_Audio if you really want to hook it up to your car's AM/FM.
Project25_MASTR
Millennial Graying OBT Guy
That's a factory option from the manufacturer actually. Ford CVPI's and PI Utilities had info for where in the harness you could cut and wire into either the front left or front right door speaker. GM might have had the option in the PPV as well. Someone I seem to remember using a plug jumper that you could unplug and then plug in a replacement with splice leads to the radio output (maybe that's a current GM PPV option as it sounds similar to the BCM flasher option for external switches once the BCM is flashed for the option). Horrible use of the OE speakers though...put the speaker up on the partition by the operators head. Easier to hear in noisy environments without the distortion some speakers (cough...Motorola...cough) have issues with at higher volume levels (there is a reason my POV and county truck both have KES-5's for all of the speakers regardless of radio manufacturer as I have a mix of Motorola and Johnson in my trucks).
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