Aerial removal?

[Len_Cuff]

How easy is it to remove the roof aerial - Status - like a large ring with a spike at the top. Am thinking
of getting a cover so need to just take it off and lay it flat so it doesn't snag the cover.

 

[JTQ]

There are two* stainless steel grub screws [horizontal] keeping the whole unit body to the plinth base. If you take off the coax plug from the cable and go up to the roof and slacken off these grub screws you can draw the aerial off the plinth. Status pprovide a red plastic cap to plug the hole, other plastic caps will do.

* go to Grades website and check detail and if it is two or one screw.

Edit: found the required link, and yes it is two grub screws:-
http://www.gradeuk.co.uk/assets/pdfs/330_INSTRUCTIONS_Retail_A5.pdf

 

[Len_Cuff]

OK thanks, didn't realise the spike unscrewed

 

[colin-yorkshire1]

OK thanks, didn't realise the spike unscrewed

hi, not just the spike, the procedure JTQ describes is for taking the whole ariel off the roof and is correct exept for removing the plug off the coax the hole in the shaft is big enough "just" to withdraw it with the coax, if you have the kit that came with the van there should be one allen wrench 2spare scews and a red plug in a plastic bag together with instructions,
mine has to come off everytime I get home as the van will not go into the garage with it on,

 

[JTQ]

OK thanks, didn't realise the spike unscrewed

hi, not just the spike, the procedure JTQ describes is for taking the whole ariel off the roof and is correct exept for removing the plug off the coax

My van that had that aerial did not have a big enough hole for the pigtail coax plug to pass through the caravan's roof. Hence advising the removal of the plug to ensure that when Len was up at the roof, the aerial really could be removed however his van was made.

 

[colin-yorkshire1]

fair enough JTQ,

mine does though, comes out every time,. I assumed they were all the same,

 

[Parksy]

I'm not sure where my earlier post has disappeared to but I wrote that the spike on top of the round Status aerials can be unscrewed so that a cover can be fitted without removing the entire aerial