Oldgrape wrote:
Howdy all. Purchased a 2005 Monaco Monarch SE about two months ago. Originally had two old analog TVs with a DTV converter. Both TVs picked up channels in my driveway. I replaced both with digital flat panel TVS. removed the DTV converter and connected the antenna coax directly to the Winegard video selector/amplifier. There is a Winegard batwing antenna on the roof. First I have to select the Aux button instead of the antenna button on the video selector box to get a signal in the Front or Rear TV. On the rear TV it either gets no signal or says it is too weak. I have read at "http://rvtvstereo.com/rv-tv-antenna-amplifier" that batwings older than 2009/10 are not actually designed to work well with HDTV signals. So my questions are: Does it sound like my selector/amplifier box could be bad? Do I need an additional signal booster/amplifier somewhere to boost the rear TV signal? And is the linked article true and I should just replace my current Batwing with a newer version?
As mention above, any suggestion that your "old" antenna will not do a good job with the current TV service is complete bunk (I usually spell that BS).
Many of the Winegard boxes also provide the 12V power to the antenna head required to make it work. When you came in and disconnected the wiring to the converter boxes you may not have gotten the connection correct. Is there a red and black set of 12V wires coming into the back of the Winegard control center? If so, that's the power for the antenna. You can check very quickly and easily by going up on the roof, disconnecting the coax going into the Batwing head and put a 12V multi-meter on the coax itself. You need to see 12+ VDC in the cable itself. If you do not then you do not have the connections correct inside.
Let us know what you find and we can get you pointed in the right direction so you can watch TV again.
