In response to heyduke50, I tested a beta version of the QS53E. It was not very good. Had the same, if not worse, signal loss on all inputs which made no sense as they could have easily have included signal amplification to overcome any loss imposed by the switch. Have not seen a Generally Available E-model production release.
In response to wa8yxm, not sure which "original post" you are referring to - mine or the one that appeared a few years ago. Connecting the new Auto Amplified antenna systems such as the Winegard Rayzar to the Aux input instead of the Ant In is actually a recommended work-around by Winegard support to avoid putting 12vDC on the new antenna system's control panel. According to the manufacturers, there is no difference at all between any of the inputs except for the DVD and the fact that the Ant has the 12vDC power necessary to power the old style Sensar antenna's built-in signal amp. I proved this to be true applying the same video signal input to the Ant, Aux and Satellite inputs - they all behaved the same. If the user has a Sensar or other antenna system which requires 12vDC, then the only input they should be using is the Ant In. However, all inputs incur the excessive insertion signal loss imposed by the QS53 switch.
