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????

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.

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.

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.

The OP is referring to the Winegard Rayzor Automatic antenna. It is a auto rotate and find small dome OTA antenna. It is not omni directional. It's reception is much better than a omni but not near as good as the batwing crank up type.

I uninstalled an OEM batwing style antenna that did not work well. I installed an omnidirectional Winegard Air 360 that doesn't work nearly as well as my previous campers crank up Winegard batwing but much (MUCH) better than the cheap knockoff that came on this 5er.I do still carry a pole and a gain antenna (both VHF and UHF) that I can strap to my rear ladder for those places we don't get anything on the Air 360.

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GordonThree
Explorer
Aug 06, 2020
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.
rk911
Explorer
Aug 06, 2020
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.
Dutch_12078
Explorer III
Aug 06, 2020
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.

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