Another antenna issue

[mmarant]

Ive a 97 LX450 Just had a sony unit installed with speaker swaps in all 4 doors. OEM headunit finally gave out.
The unit is BT, Aux, USB, and tuner (of course). When the unit is powered on but NOT using the tuner option, the antenna willl pop up about 2 inches and stop.
The up/down dash button will fully raise and lower the antenna (back to the aforementioned 2" height).
When the sony is powered off, the antenna will fully retract.
Is this normal function and is there a solution to keep the antenna fully retracted when not using the tuner? I think it looks odd.
With the OEM unit, if the tuner was off and i was using the tape deck or CD player the antenna would retract completely (as best as I remember)

Any thoughts are appreciated

Matt

 

[LongDuck]

Not knowing what head unit you've installed, it could be that when you cycle past the TUNER input to one of the others, it momentarily thinks you're going to listen to the radio and the antenna is then raised,... but then, no... and you're listening to BT or AUX and your antenna is up a bit.

With my aftermarket head unit in another vehicle, it does exactly this, but retracts the antenna after it tries to raise the antenna as you "blow by" the radio tuner input to get to something else. In other words, this could be normal, just annoying.

When you power up the head unit, doesn't it go back to whatever input you were using before?

 

[Halfpint]

Your antennae & buttons actually work?! Mine is my machine-gun noise button- no functional antennae results...

 

[Outsane]

Mine did the same with an aftermarket unit.

I don't think the aftermarket unit knows how to control the antenna. I never used the fm function either.