Re: Car alarm question...

That length of wire is tuned to the frequency of the transmitter and
Clifford says not to extend it. With that being said, I have added 2 foot of
wire to some Clifford alarms and the range did get better. it will not hurt
anything to try.

"Matt Ion" <soundy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Since I can't seem to find a rec.alarm.car or anything similar, I'll ask
> here...
>
> I have an old Clifford XL1000 alarm in my car. Range on the remotes sucks
> green giblets.
>
> Since the antenna on the brain is receive-only so I don't have any sort of
> transmit-impedence-matching to worry about, can I successfully extend this
> thing with, say, a piece of wire up into the top of the dash, or maybe up
> the a-pillar into the header, or in some similar way improve the range?
>
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