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rstoro
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Nov 10, 2017

King jack antenna

Would like to know some opinions on replacing my batwing antenna with the new jack king antennas. And if you have the one with the signal finder do you need to run power to it on the roof??
  • As some broadcasters make the move back to VHF frequencies the differences will become even greater as the Jack is optimized for the UHF frequencies. The manufacturers were under the impression that ALL OTA TV was going to be UHF but turned out not to be the case.
  • Dutch_12078 wrote:
    Before running out and buying a Jack to replace your batwing, take a look at the results of a professional level comparison test of the two.

    Batwing vs.BatMan vs. Jack: The Results..
    SCVJeff did a great job testing the antennas. He usually responds to threads like this one, but I haven't seen any comments from him in quite a while. Where is SCVJeff?
  • Dutch_12078 wrote:
    Before running out and buying a Jack to replace your batwing, take a look at the results of a professional level comparison test of the two.

    Batwing vs.BatMan vs. Jack: The Results..



    Tom_M wrote:
    SCVJeff did a great job testing the antennas. He usually responds to threads like this one, but I haven't seen any comments from him in quite a while. Where is SCVJeff?


    Probably tired of constantly having to rehash this subject over and over again with those who still insist the King Jack OTA antenna is a better performing antenna than the Winegard Sensar IV despite the facts provided by Jeff's tests that prove otherwise. Hey, that's the internet for you! :R
  • Let's wait another year or so and have Jeff do that comparison again as more broadcaster move back to VHF. I should be even more of a blow out.

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