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down_home
Explorer II
Aug 05, 2020

RV ANTENNAS.... AGAIN

The Winegard has been doing well for 15 years but...hand cranking it up and down and then experimenting to find the msot or best signals is old.One of the winegard that is omnidirectional and enclosed in a housing and is cited for more range is nearly $400.00 sound fine except for the price. We are in Kingman and getting Phoenix etc right now but I want a self steering no cranking up or down model.
Anything less than $400.00????

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  • Camping in a "trailer park" outside a major metropolitan area, an Omni is a great choice.

    Camping out in rustic and rural areas, directional is the choice.
  • i'd be leery of any omni-directional RV antenna. and i don't believe the range claims. TV signals are line of sight and an antenna a few inches above your roof line won't, IMO, be very effective. you're getting Phoenix TV via a transmitter located in Kingman that's linked to the Phoenix transmitters.
  • Keep in mind that antenna experts refer to omni-directional antennas as "equally bad in all directions." You'll also need to make sure that any OTA TV antenna you choose needs to be able to receive both high and low VHF channels as well as what's left of the UHF channels.