The Secret Ingredient How Pilot Wires Enhance Control Systems

The blue/blue white wire is normally the wire that tells a retractable antenna to extend when the head unit is switched on. It's not the same as ... Your Subaru has an antenna booster amplifier, which is powered from pin 9 on the 20-pin radio harness (Blue wire on my installation harness). Well at least on the stereos I have done that is what the blue wire is... I think they either call it the power antenna wire or the remote amp ... The blue wire would go to the antenna timer, which seems to mean splicing the green/black from the existing radio to the dark blue wire. This wire is the wire that powers the antenna amplifier. when the original PCM is installed accessory power comes out of the PCM and powers this wire. The blue wire is the 'trigger' wire for the antenna to raise up. In my 500E I only use the brown, Red & Blue wire to operate the power antenna. The replacement antenna has, in addition to the solid antenna wire, three other wires...a black ground wire, a red power wire (to a hot at all times source) and ... Ant.cont. is used to control a power antenna. Radio comes on..ant. goes up...radio off...ant down. p.cont. is used to turn on car amp. Yes, these two wires should be connected together. This is what allows the radio to retract the antenna when it isn't being used. The jumper harness wiring kit crutchfield sent me for my truck says blue wire is for power antenna. The pioneer wire harness instructions ...