a television question

Thank you, everyone, for the responses.

This will certainly help me get the tv set up.

Again, thank you.

The BATWING antenna is a great antenna to pick up the DIGITAL TV SIGNALS from the local towns... You will have to point the antenna to the TV Transmitter stations.

Your BATWING ANTENNA should look like this google photo.


If your BATWING does not have the DIPOLES shown in this photo they can be added in about five minutes and are very easy to mount. This can be purchased from AMAZON. Your BATWING will work without the added dipoles but do so much better if they are added.

Your new HDTV sets will have to scan in the digital television HDTV signals before you can can view them. Set your HDTV menu to CABLE for picking up stations from the campground or ANTENNA to pick them up from the BATWING antenna. When using the OTA BATWING antenna you also have to push the button on the antenna panel which sends up 12VDC to the BATWING antenna to power up the internal pre-amplifier (called the Booster) to make the BATWING antenna work.

We pick up 6-36 digital HDTV signals from our BATWING just about everywhere we go here on the East side of the US... It does take some getting used to pointing the BATWING crank-up OTA Antenna towards the transmitting HDTV stations before scanning them into the HDTV before viewing. This is not like the old days where you see a snowy picture and you can move the antenna back and forth to get the best view. With Digital HDTV signals it is a very good TV signals or almost nothing at all...

Actually the HDTV signals picked up by the OTA BATWING are better than most cable TV signals picked up at the campgrounds. The campgrounds are just now starting to upgrade their TV SIGNALS to the high quality HDTV modes.

Roy Ken

All the new HD over the air stations broadcast on what used to be UHF.
You can spend about $20 and add a "Wingman" to you old antenna.
We get great reception with ours, if we are within about 50 miles of a town with transmitters.
No tools involved, and takes about 20 seconds to install.
Where we were sitting, we went from 13 channels to over 30, just by adding the wingman.
We still keep some dvd's in case we are too far out to get any channels, but it hasn't happened yet.

Your batwing antenna should work with your new TV. Did the Netflix streaming with my own 4g network but it sucks up data usage. Campground was to sloooooww. Cable should work fine as well.

I have ordered a lot of old movies DVD for remote campgrounds that don't have cable or air access.

A lot of people use dish or direct sat TV.

cable, yes
antenna, try the old one
streaming, too slow
bumpy