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Old Mar 2, 2022 | 04:31 AM
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What are these for? 🤔

I bought the car yesterday and I noticed the cables the seller didn’t know what they were. Some of them like the optic cable gives me the idea that they go to a radio?

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Looks like an antenna cable, not fiber optic. Was the car used as a taxi or some other dispatched service that would have required a 2-way radio?
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Looks like an antenna cable, not fiber optic. Was the car used as a taxi or some other dispatched service that would have required a 2-way radio?
no it only has 230k kilometers on the odometer but it could be for a other radio 🤔 perhaps a Bluetooth audio solution
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no it only has 230k kilometers on the odometer but it could be for a other radio 🤔 perhaps a Bluetooth audio solution
Most Bluetooth radios are restricted from using external antennas. Possibly it's a cable for a mobile amateur radio rig.
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Originally Posted by streborx
Most Bluetooth radios are restricted from using external antennas. Possibly it's a cable for a mobile amateur radio rig.
Not for any ham rig I've ever seen. The connectors are some proprietary variety, so maybe try web search on the markings on the connectors (can't read them in photo).

Could it be for some sat radio or navi system?
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Not for any ham rig I've ever seen. The connectors are some proprietary variety, so maybe try web search on the markings on the connectors (can't read them in photo).

Could it be for some sat radio or navi system?
i found these cables on a russian thread aswell and it indeed seems to be taxi cables. Don’t know when they’ve installed them or if my car has even been in service as a taxi, but i found more cables in the roof light.
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