Cen someone explain to me (step-by-step-like so even I can understand....) how to install a switch which would prevent the power antenna from powering up with the ignition, and just work with the stereo on/up and off/down?

I want to use an antenna switch from a 200 as part of the installation. To make it blend in nicely with the othere controls.
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"Can't understand why people abort Volvos, either"

The Volvo antenna rocker switch is hard to find at a reasonable price. Good luck. I cruised eBay and finally gave up. Never saw one in a boneyard.

The antenna goes up when both of the wires to it are "hot". One is "hot" all the time, same fuse as the courtesy lights. The other gets "hot" when the radio is turned on.

All you have to do is put the switch in one of the wires. Here's what I had planned:

Pull the radio head unit or otherwise find the wire from the 9-pin plug that's going to the antenna. It should be a red conductor.

OR, find the other wire to the rear - in my 1988 240 diagram it is green and comes from fuse #8.

Cut the wire and install a pair of fully insulated spade connectors, male and female - that way you can re-connect them and pull the hard-to-find antenna rocker switch for use in your next brick.

Use a pair of wires with their own connectors installed, run from the switch to the connectors you just installed. Which side goes to which switch terminal make no difference.

So by clicking the switch to "Off", one side of the needed two sides is not complete, and the antenna will remain down, or go down if it was up.

Hope this helps.

Bob

:>)

You're not going to believe this....

but my car already is set up with this kill switch!

Complete with the rare Volvo antenna switch you were looking for.

I just never saw the thing. It was obscured from view by the turn signal switch.
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"Can't understand why people abort Volvos, either"

Thanks, I think I understand that. First I'll look at the stereo as Greg_Mustang suggested and see if I can switch the antenna from there in the first place (would be better)
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"Can't understand why people abort Volvos, either"

On all the cars I've seen, it is wired to a p.antenna output on the radio, hence it only goes up when the radio is turned on.

Do you have a stock radio, or has your wiring been altered?

Greg Mustang
Montreal - Ottawa
Canada

I don't know what kind of aftermarket CD/FM/AM stereo it has (Sony?) but it is aftermarket.

This daah has been apart a couple of times, I gather, by previous owners. Who knows what is behing there?

So, you are saying there is a power wire suposed to come from the antenna and plug into the stereo to draw switched power?
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"Can't understand why people abort Volvos, either"

On my own brick, the radio is the ultimate 'off' switch with regards to the antenna. If the radio is not on, then regardless of my antenna switch the antenna is off. Only when the radio is on can I cycle the antenna up and down manually.
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Kenric Tam
1990 Volvo 740 base sedan (B230F)
My Volvo 'Project'