rv antenna

Here's an article by Chris Bryant with some good tips:

Link: Tune up your TV antenna

Sensor iv antenna and a sensar pro amplfied box. I ran new cable from the antenna all the way to the sensar pro. The old coax was compromised where it went through the roof. What a major difference in amount of channels now.

Your profile says Fairfield glade, tn. from there, everything is going to be at least 30 miles, and most more like 50. So, you are at extreme range for both Knoxville and Chattanooga.
We have the Sensar IV antenna with the Sensar Pro wallpate inside, and are good for at least 60 miles OVER GOOD TERRAIN. Not knowing your siteing, If you can get either Knoxville or Chattanooga you will be doing good. Not having bee that way in a while, there may be a repeater tower somewhere close, which will solve the problem. I would think that Crossville might have something. We were at Carthage, TN. and received a LOT of stations from Nashville, shich led me to think that there might be a repeater tower somewhere up there in the hills and ridges.
But,m in answer to your question, It has been tested several times on this forum by folks with knowledge and equipment, and the newer Winegard antenna has always come out best, with the Jack a close second in most cases.

There are several antennas.. Some are "Exotic" and frankly over priced.

Windgard Sensar II or III (Old fashion "Batwing") are good, add the wingman UHF director array and you now have one of the 3 BEST on the market II is one, III is another and IV which comes WITH the Wingman is the 3rd) No better antenna made for RV.

Indoors. You have the chose of the standard wall plate or box of many buttons

Or a SENSAR PRO... and again,, that's the way to go.

My Set up is a batwing, Wingman, Sensar Pro.

From there on it gets.. a bit strange, but well,.. I do things which advertisers say I can't do less I pay for their overpriced junk.

Some others: The JACK from King Controls, in both lab testing and side by side, not as good

The Jack Omin, and the Winegard RoadStar (Flying saucer style) Even worse
Winegard Rayzar... I am not sold on this one.... I have not tried it but frankly I do not think it will outperform my Batwing (Sensar)

One issue with the "Automatic" antennas is this. They come in two types.. One is rare.

The rare one communicates with the Receiver (TV) and Receivers that can do that are reare (It uses a modular phone type cable) to maximize the signal for the channel selected.. This would be good but the one and only model I know is not that powerful.

Others simply pick the strongest signal and maximize it.. Sounds good since usually transmitters are "Grouped" like bananas on a bunch. but one place I park,,, For best results,,,, I peak, then two stops Clockwise for the best results.. Or peak on one of the weaker signals.. So I like manual aiming.

crasster wrote:
Yes, go batwing. Still looking for a batwing with a wifi router antenna!!!

I have seen several post where they are addons not part of the antenna. They use the crank up antenna as a mast.
Bill

And the batwing now comes in black for those with black rooftop equipment

Yes, go batwing. Still looking for a batwing with a wifi router antenna!!!

Also check all your connections. I had the same problem and found a bad connection inside the ceiling, where you cranked up the antenna. They had used a coupler to connect from antenna to inside cable. The actual cable inside the coupler had broken off. Corrected this and received the channels I should have been receiving.

Batman antenna is still the best. I can't be beat! Oh ... sorry ... "Bat Wing" antenna!

cableguy574 wrote:
I have the stander Rv antenna,

Different antenna's are "standard" on different model RV's.

Which one you have NOW can be important to know when starting a discussion of what might be better.

First, most have a built-in amplifier but it is on a switch and you MUST turn that ON or you will get pretty much nothing.

Then except for the pancake pod ones, they are directional and some "aiming" is required.

So.....we need to know what you have NOW and what, if anything, you are able to get.....versus what you think you should get at a given location.