any other options to increase tv reception?
I added the winegard wingman over the summer hoping it would help me draw better signal where I camp in the fall. It made virtually no difference. I'm in the middle of nowhere so I'm not sure there's ...
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We have great luck with one of these residential type Antennas Direct DB8 UHF BOWTIE type antenna panel. This would be mounted on pole outside your trailer. Uses a pre-amp... Having the two sides angle adjustable helps with having slight two different angles at the transmitter location for me without moving the antenna. Being a good UHF antenna it does take good pointing to work. This one solved my problem of 60-70 miles away HDTV reception. My BATWING does pretty good at 40 miles away.
Antenna available from AMAZON. Search for DB8 Antenna
Like others have said if this is a semi-permanent location just go down to LOWES and get their $90 Channel Master YAGI antenna. I used this for a long time with my OFF-ROAD trailer setup but eventually destroyed the antenna by opening it up every time we stopped.
Make sure the ANTENNA PANEL is providing 12VDC up to your BATWING Preamp and connections are good and you are going through the correct procedure to scan channels into your HDTV setup when using the OTA Antenna setup on your trailer. We had to scan-in OTA HDTV digital channels from the local towns everytime we stopped..
Roy Ken
Antenna available from AMAZON. Search for DB8 Antenna
Like others have said if this is a semi-permanent location just go down to LOWES and get their $90 Channel Master YAGI antenna. I used this for a long time with my OFF-ROAD trailer setup but eventually destroyed the antenna by opening it up every time we stopped.
Make sure the ANTENNA PANEL is providing 12VDC up to your BATWING Preamp and connections are good and you are going through the correct procedure to scan channels into your HDTV setup when using the OTA Antenna setup on your trailer. We had to scan-in OTA HDTV digital channels from the local towns everytime we stopped..
Roy Ken
