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Old 03-17-2014, 11:43 AM   #1
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Question What is this ground wire for?

I'm in the process of replacing the pos conertone with a decent stereo, and noticed what looks like a un-connected ground wire following an antenna cable up into the roof.
It is the bare braided wire in the photo below. When I removed the concertone it was just hanging there, not attached to anything.
Ignore the attached white lead, I put that on the end to extend it so that once I figure out if it needs to be connected to something, I have the additional run to do so.
Does anyone know what purpose it serves, and where, if anywhere, it should be attached?

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Old 03-21-2014, 02:32 PM   #2
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Old 03-21-2014, 03:02 PM   #3
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Have you tried to pull it out of the ceiling? Any resistance? Maybe a ground for the antenna or a lead to the antenna input for the POS conertone that fell off?
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Old 03-21-2014, 04:19 PM   #4
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I'm in the process of replacing the pos conertone with a decent stereo, and noticed what looks like a un-connected ground wire following an antenna cable up into the roof.
It is the bare braided wire in the photo below. When I removed the concertone it was just hanging there, not attached to anything.
Ignore the attached white lead, I put that on the end to extend it so that once I figure out if it needs to be connected to something, I have the additional run to do so.
Does anyone know what purpose it serves, and where, if anywhere, it should be attached?
Sounds a AM antenna?
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Old 03-21-2014, 04:27 PM   #5
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Looks like the ground for the antenna base.

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