I would like a simple broadcast tv set-up for my tc. I'm usuallyin the boonies, with just usually only the minimum channels available, like the three networks. The antennae on the roof is 17 yrs old.Is it basically junk? I was at WalMart and took a stroll thru thetv department. There is a digital converter. There is an HD Antenna.Are most over the air signals broadcast in HD now or no? Isn't the digital converter for connection to an old pre-digital TV? I have a newer LCD TV in a bedroom in the house I can use in the camper. Wouldn'tall I have to do is buy a digital antenna of some kind, and would I need yo even get it to the outside. This HD antenna looked like a nice way to go. It has a flat and narrow profile, wouldn't take up much space. Or is there just a better basic antenna set-up to be had.Thanks,

If you have a modern (LCD) tv then you do not need a converter. There is no such thing as a digital/hd antenna just antennas that are better at receiving UHF channels. Do not bother with an indoor antenna if you are mostly in the boonies. You want an antenna that is above things that can block signals.You don't say was brand of roof antenna you have now. But if it is a Winegard Batwing then you could swap it for a new version such as the Rayzar Air. You have several options with Winegard, so go to their website and check them out.

eveready1289 wrote:I would like a simple broadcast tv set-up for my tc. I'm usuallyin the boonies, with just usually only the minimum channels available, like the three networks. The antennae on the roof is 17 yrs old.Is it basically junk? I was at WalMart and took a stroll thru thetv department. There is a digital converter. There is an HD Antenna.Are most over the air signals broadcast in HD now or no? Isn't the digital converter for connection to an old pre-digital TV? I have a newer LCD TV in a bedroom in the house I can use in the camper. Wouldn'tall I have to do is buy a digital antenna of some kind, and would I need yo even get it to the outside. This HD antenna looked like a nice way to go. It has a flat and narrow profile, wouldn't take up much space. Or is there just a better basic antenna set-up to be had.Thanks,Most TV's since 2008 have the built in digital converter. You will get more channels & better reception. Your best bet is to get a outdoor small footprint HD antenna & connect at the old antenna location. You may need to run new coax cable to support HD signalling. Otherwise, purchase an indoor antenna & try it. It may not work as well as outdoor, but. Use an RG6, quad shielded coax cable for best results.

I don't know the brand on the antenna, its a KZ Sportman tc(1997). I don't have a manual for anything. I will look for a name.

The antenna has a crank inside with a spring in it. If this is designed to raise the antenna, it doesn't. It just spins as you crank on it.Is there some secret to engaging the crank inside to lift the antenna? I just raised it by hand, once, to see if it was all there. There is a tv in the tc from the previous owner. Its a flat panel cheap one. When I ran a channel scan, several times, it finds no channels? 0 channels.I think he said he never used the tv, he just used dvd's.

Of course the best antenna I ever used was one of the LOWES $90 long yagi's but it destroyed itself from me having to fold it up when in transport. Did last a year however. It stuck out a good four feet or so over both ends of my POPUP trailer hehe.. Sometime I couldn't turn it for hitting a tree...This is a photo shot of my present BATWING antenna setup with my OFF-ROAD POPUP trailer - Does very well camping off the power grid...Here at the house I have been experimenting with one of these DB8 antenna from SOLID SIGNAL.com. It was recently on sale for $49 and I picked up one. This is one of those Eight BOW TIE two flat panel antenna that picks up our HDTV OTA Broadcast signal from Washington DC some 50-60 miles North of us. This should work out great when camping off the power grid and I will have it up in the air about 12-feet with my PVC antenna mount. I added a RCA TVPREAMP1R that will operate from the RG6 TV feed line supping 9VDC from an inline power feed down in the trailer. My HDTV in my trailer is a 22-inch VIZIO from WALMART...Looks like this google image... Will let you guys know how it works out off the power grid soon... Initial test here on the ground comparing with a BATWING usig the same PVC pole looks very promising... I am picking up 36 or so full screen high Def BROADCAST SYSTEM TV signals from the Washington DC area.Roy Ken

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Dakota98
Explorer
Oct 26, 2014
eveready1289 wrote:
I would like a simple broadcast tv set-up for my tc. I'm usually
in the boonies, with just usually only the minimum channels available, like the three networks. The antennae on the roof is 17 yrs old.
Is it basically junk? I was at WalMart and took a stroll thru the
tv department. There is a digital converter. There is an HD Antenna.
Are most over the air signals broadcast in HD now or no? Isn't the digital converter for connection to an old pre-digital TV? I have a newer LCD TV in a bedroom in the house I can use in the camper. Wouldn't
all I have to do is buy a digital antenna of some kind, and would I need yo even get it to the outside. This HD antenna looked like a nice way to go. It has a flat and narrow profile, wouldn't take up much space. Or is there just a better basic antenna set-up to be had.

Thanks,

Most TV's since 2008 have the built in digital converter. You will get more channels & better reception. Your best bet is to get a outdoor small footprint HD antenna & connect at the old antenna location. You may need to run new coax cable to support HD signalling. Otherwise, purchase an indoor antenna & try it. It may not work as well as outdoor, but. Use an RG6, quad shielded coax cable for best results.
wildtoad
Explorer II
Oct 26, 2014
If you have a modern (LCD) tv then you do not need a converter. There is no such thing as a digital/hd antenna just antennas that are better at receiving UHF channels. Do not bother with an indoor antenna if you are mostly in the boonies. You want an antenna that is above things that can block signals.

You don't say was brand of roof antenna you have now. But if it is a Winegard Batwing then you could swap it for a new version such as the Rayzar Air. You have several options with Winegard, so go to their website and check them out.

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