No More Asuka .. Now What?

[andy65b]

The video's + music part is up and running and very good. Tonights job is to clean up the mess of cables and mount the thing.. Id be interested to see how others have mounted them in the V's.. Ill post some pics of the antenna plugs tonight..

When you say v35 factory ones dont pick up here.. Is that due to being crap or different system all together?

I was fairly certain id get some kind of picture with the factory ones since the reception in my area is really good. I could run my house TV's off rabbit ears (with DTV) no problem at all.. This is what makes me think i have hooked it up wrong.. I want to give the factory ones a chance before i order after market ones.. Even thought ill probably end up going down that path..

The factory antenna on the V35 will not work with an aftermarket tuner. They can be made to work on the M35 but on the V35 you need to install aftermarket antenna.

I have a set available if you are interested. Send me a PM if you are interested.

These are the ones supplied with the Asuka units. They can fitted in your bumpers or in the top of the front and back windscreens.

Cheers

Andy

[projectx]

pm sent

[projectx]

Ok, there are 2 plugs. One has a cable pair both fat and other plug with a pair fat and thin. The furthest plug from unit is the pair with fat and thin. The Fat is an aerial and it should work. Trust me I have it running. The thin one is used for power when the tv selection is made from your console. When switching back to cd or radio the 12v feed is switched off. More than likely it is for gain. Feed it with 12v when your receiver is switched on and that should do you for one good aerial.

The second plug, one with 2 thick cables are also aerials as their connections on the isdbt pcb board have ant3 ant4 printed. I tested one briefly and didn't get anything so I need to test further and trace where they go in the car.

I tried the second plug (with skinny and fat) and this antenna seems to work much better then the two from the other connector.. Although the smaller cable hooking up to 12 volts made no difference at all.. I tried with and without the small cable (fresh channel search each time) and came up with the same channels.. I get abc (1,2 and 3) and channel 10.. and 10 HD

Also it made no difference having the other antenna plugged in or not.. Im getting the best result with the single antenna and not 12 volt to the little cable..

Ill probably start looking at antenna options now..

Edited November 23, 2010 by projectx

[Bolaris]

Good to see you got one working anyway. You've got me curious now I'm gona kill the thin wire and see, but I'm certain it's for gain nonetheless.

Can I ask where you tapped 12v from? There should be a small white plug that is sitting unattended about a foot from the jap tuner, it's got a clean 12.

I'll take photos of my second aftermarket antenna and where it's tucked away.

If you plan on adding a rear bumper antenna there's a little grommet slightly left of center on the inside edge of the boot panel. It's used for the numberplate bulb wire.

[projectx]

Good to see you got one working anyway. You've got me curious now I'm gona kill the thin wire and see, but I'm certain it's for gain nonetheless.

Can I ask where you tapped 12v from? There should be a small white plug that is sitting unattended about a foot from the jap tuner, it's got a clean 12.

I'll take photos of my second aftermarket antenna and where it's tucked away.

If you plan on adding a rear bumper antenna there's a little grommet slightly left of center on the inside edge of the boot panel. It's used for the numberplate bulb wire.

I tried 2 sources for the 12v. First the blue cable from the asuka which i think is meant for this purpose. Then just to be sure i took it from the same source that was powering the asuka. (which was the same power that the factory tuner was using)..

I noticed the extra white connector your talking about. I never thought of checking for a power source from it.. Good idea though..

heres some pics of where im at now..

[Bolaris]

The best position i have found for my back antenna is pushed right up in the left corner of windscreen.

From inside sitting in front seats you can barely see it as the angle of the roof lining hides it and its also not visible from outside, my tint is super darker than most though.

The asuka looks mad. Shame to cover it up.. Before you bolt everything down don't forget to set up your screen bypass.

Use the PCB "cont1 (or cont2) to grounding" method by pete. Ive fed a tiny switch to my armrest and this works the bomb.

Here is one of the great discoveries in bypassing your handbrake and speed sensor.

Edited November 24, 2010 by Bolaris

[projectx]

The best position i have found for my back antenna is pushed right up in the left corner of windscreen.

From inside sitting in front seats you can barely see it as the angle of the roof lining hides it and its also not visible from outside, my tint is super darker than most though.

The asuka looks mad. Shame to cover it up.. Before you bolt everything down don't forget to set up your screen bypass.

Use the PCB "cont1 (or cont2) to grounding" method by pete. Ive fed a tiny switch to my armrest and this works the bomb.

Here is one of the great discoveries in bypassing your handbrake and speed sensor.

Thanks for the info.. Soon as my antenna's arrive I will try the front and rear (top) windscreens before i do anything with the bumbers.. Hoping to have them by the end of the week.

In regards to the bypass.. I had this done when i got my english conversion by Nigel. He applied a software crack to sort out this issue so i didnt need to wire anything to my hand brake at all or play with the boards in the tuner..

[Bolaris]

Mine's a 2005 so I gotta wait until English conversion gets created, grrrr.

[projectx]

Mine's a 2005 so I gotta wait until English conversion gets created, grrrr.

haha damn!! that would suck.. Hopefully not too far away.. Makes me appreciate even more all the hard work Andy has put in with the russian mob getting things to were they are at now.. then theres the V36, must have even more stuff to figure out..

Edited November 24, 2010 by projectx

[projectx]

Well last night i received antenna's for the asuka from Andy and installed them straight away. The result is very good. Im receiving every channel in my garage so i suspect it will be even better when driving around. Heres a few pics of the finished product in action.. I found a pretty good spot for the USB extension cord without going to too much effort. Its just above the passenger foot well. The antennas i ended up mounting at the top of the windows.. Since those black dotty things are towards the top, the suction caps dont stick too well so i just tucked the ends of the antennas under the roof lining to stop the falling down.

Im really happy with this system.. It does everything and more that a $1500 double din unit would do for a 1/4 of the price. The only catch is BYO screen required which in this case is an advantage because you can maintain the factory look and dont have to butcher your center console.

Thanks all who helped.. Hopefully Leon and Andy can keep us up to date as to what other gear is out there if this really is the last of the Asuka tuners.

[andy65b]

Well last night i received antenna's for the asuka from Andy and installed them straight away. The result is very good. Im receiving every channel in my garage so i suspect it will be even better when driving around. Heres a few pics of the finished product in action.. I found a pretty good spot for the USB extension cord without going to too much effort. Its just above the passenger foot well. The antennas i ended up mounting at the top of the windows.. Since those black dotty things are towards the top, the suction caps dont stick too well so i just tucked the ends of the antennas under the roof lining to stop the falling down.

Im really happy with this system.. It does everything and more that a $1500 double din unit would do for a 1/4 of the price. The only catch is BYO screen required which in this case is an advantage because you can maintain the factory look and dont have to butcher your center console.

Thanks all who helped.. Hopefully Leon and Andy can keep us up to date as to what other gear is out there if this really is the last of the Asuka tuners.

Looks great Tom. You will enjoy this set up I am sure.

Cheers

Andy

[projectx]

Looks great Tom. You will enjoy this set up I am sure.

Cheers

Andy

thanks mate..

Ive just driven to work and didnt have a single cut out on channel 7 which was previously one of the channels i couldnt even get a picture

[Leev_35]

Hi Guys,

I contacted Asuka in Tawain and they do distribute their products under the name of Zylux. Has anyone heard of them?

Cheers

Lee

[Chris Rogers]

yep. and I use them. compnay is based in melbourne.

[YEE-HAA]

The factory antenna on the V35 will not work with an aftermarket tuner. They can be made to work on the M35 but on the V35 you need to install aftermarket antenna. These are the ones supplied with the Asuka units. CheersAndy

Sorry to revive an old thread but looking at doing this for my PM35 and it sounds as if mine has the same square plugs as the V35 for the aerials. I recently opened mine up and saw printed on the circuit board "ANT1, ANT2, ANT3, ANT4". So andy, my questions is if this is still relevant to the current asuka tuners, or was this for the previous model tuners? Regardless I s'pose the new tuners are still coming with aerials I beleive. (I have taken some photo's of the inside of the box if anyone is interested I can upload if you wish.)

Hi Guys,I contacted Asuka in Tawain and they do distribute their products under the name of Zylux. Has anyone heard of them?CheersLee

I have also heard of them, they are also the distributor for Daewoo Car security products, (remotes & transponders) if its still of any interest to anyone.

[Commsman]

Sorry to revive an old thread but looking at doing this for my PM35 and it sounds as if mine has the same square plugs as the V35 for the aerials. I recently opened mine up and saw printed on the circuit board "ANT1, ANT2, ANT3, ANT4". So andy, my questions is if this is still relevant to the current asuka tuners, or was this for the previous model tuners? Regardless I s'pose the new tuners are still coming with aerials I beleive. (I have taken some photo's of the inside of the box if anyone is interested I can upload if you wish.)

Hi Frank, the new tuners come with aerials (Asuka's didn't) but you shouldn't need them if your car has JDM TV. Since you're in SA, you could contact Brad (Ducati02) because I think he has at least one of my tuners available ATM. If not, get back to me & I can send you one if you want.

Cheers, Leon.

[seohyunjin]

i still have a brand new Asuka unit left if anyone is interested.