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RoyB
Aug 24, 2018Explorer II
If your batwing antenna looks like this it needs to have the add-on DIPOLE kit...

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Dipole KIT

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When the dipole kit is added it will look like this...

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These BAT WING antenna have to be pointed at the TV transmitting station to pick them up. Since the Natl Broadcast changed over to most all TV stations now transmitting in HDTV mode the added dipoles really help out receiving those being transmitter on the higher frequency TV bands...
You probably are aware of this already but the BATWING has a pre-amplifier inside the housing above your RV unit. this is controlled by what they call a TV WALL PLATE... Operation of all of this looks like this...

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Pretty sure you purchase what you need from AMAZON...
The BATWING Antenna is really a great antenna and hard to beat. I use one in my OFF-ROAD POPUP TRAILER setup and get bunches of HDTV station just about everywhere we go...

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Roy Ken


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Dipole KIT

Google Image
When the dipole kit is added it will look like this...

Google image
These BAT WING antenna have to be pointed at the TV transmitting station to pick them up. Since the Natl Broadcast changed over to most all TV stations now transmitting in HDTV mode the added dipoles really help out receiving those being transmitter on the higher frequency TV bands...
You probably are aware of this already but the BATWING has a pre-amplifier inside the housing above your RV unit. this is controlled by what they call a TV WALL PLATE... Operation of all of this looks like this...

Google image
Pretty sure you purchase what you need from AMAZON...
The BATWING Antenna is really a great antenna and hard to beat. I use one in my OFF-ROAD POPUP TRAILER setup and get bunches of HDTV station just about everywhere we go...

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Roy Ken
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