On Sunday, August 9, 2015 at 5:37:28 PM UTC-4, Bert Knupp wrote: > > Hi, Glen (and others), > > Thanks for the tips. I took the shell off this radio and determined that > it's made in Italy, but learned little else. I'm pretty sure the black is > ground, as it's commoned with the antenna-plug shielding. So that kills the > DIN hypothesis. I've found there are a couple of US aftermarket standards > that might apply, though they have striped tracers, and mine has none. Car > radios often have a battery-hot wire (30) to maintain memory; an > ignition-hot wire (54) to allow operation only with ignition switch on ACC > or RUN; and an instrument-light wire (57a or 58) to illuminate at night. > I'm assuming (!) this one has four + speaker wires and uses a - grounded > speaker installation. So I'll begin careful testing. > > The truth: I'm planning a concealed mount for the radio/cassette player > where it can play a cassette I have of an hour of German police calls. I've > tapped into the power switch in the old Telefunken FuG-7b Sprechfunkanlage, > and also into its faceplate speaker plus an under-dash communications > speaker. Right now I use a remote boom-box for the sound effects at shows, > but that's pretty unsophisticated. > > This is kind of cool. I had a question, though. To complete the whole German Police Car theme, do you have a German Shepherd? If I ever get as far with mine as you did with yours, I'm planning on adding special Disney Herbie features and quirks... Oddly enough, he already had the quirk to stay running even after removing the keys! Kyle 66 Bug awaiting new windshield for more stories...
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