So I have a piece of private property with one of my campers on it. I'm in the middle of putting a large "pavilion" style roof over it. It has a metal roof so the antenna isn't working so good any more. I have put up a 25 foot pole with a rotator on it to mount an antenna. I have always loved the reception of the wineguard antenna. I was thinking of buying one and mounting it on the pole. Then I got to thinking of powering it I don't have a battery and wanted to use something like this to power it. Real Output: 12V 1.5A 18W. 99% of the time the TV will be outsidehttps://www.amazon.com/dp/B015HSS57Y?psc=1 I have also thought about the DB8 or DB8e, but the low profile RV antenna would be better in windy conditions since the pole has no guy wires on ithttps://www.amazon.com/High-Bowtie-Indoor-Outdoor-Antenna/dp/B000EHWCDW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1472594739&sr=8-1&keywords=db+8+antennaYou insight would be appreciated

you do not say the miles to transmitter.the larger the better. the higher the better. but space and guy wires can limit options.and Forget/Ignore advertising of Digital signals.. any good VHS/UHF antenna is good for your needs.. and a powered amplifier may not be needed.

Chuck_thehammer wrote:you do not say the miles to transmitter.the larger the better. the higher the better. but space and guy wires can limit options.and Forget/Ignore advertising of Digital signals.. any good VHS/UHF antenna is good for your needs.. and a powered amplifier may not be needed.50-80 depending what city I want as the crow files. Yes an amp will be needed.Before the roof I have received signals over 80 miles away

We dumped cable a year ago saving $120 a month and just use a OTA TV antenna now. Had to install a booster that runs off of 120VAC, it really helped with the reception.Amazon TV amplifierBill

Hopefully, you are not looking at RV antennas for the installation on a fixed building. Household antennas are SO much more effective than anything that an RV could use it would make no sense to mount an RV antenna at the top of a 25 foot pole. If you like Winegard (and who doesn't) they make fixed location antennas that you could mount and receive a much better signal than anything as limited as an RV antenna.

Bill.Satellite wrote:Hopefully, you are not looking at RV antennas for the installation on a fixed building. Household antennas are SO much more effective than anything that an RV could use it would make no sense to mount an RV antenna at the top of a 25 foot pole. If you like Winegard (and who doesn't) they make fixed location antennas that you could mount and receive a much better signal than anything as limited as an RV antenna.I have a 25 foot pole. The pole is lagged to a fence post. I live in Wisconsin. I don't think the "residental" antenna will stand up to our Wisconsin winters on a pole with out guy wires. another thing the residential antenna is pretty ugly at 168 inches long. As I said we were able to pick up many stations with the antenna on our RV until I put the roof on.http://www.winegard.com/hdtv-outdoor-antennas?q=offair

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Bill_Satellite
Explorer II
Aug 30, 2016
Hopefully, you are not looking at RV antennas for the installation on a fixed building. Household antennas are SO much more effective than anything that an RV could use it would make no sense to mount an RV antenna at the top of a 25 foot pole. If you like Winegard (and who doesn't) they make fixed location antennas that you could mount and receive a much better signal than anything as limited as an RV antenna.
Trackrig
Explorer II
Aug 30, 2016
We dumped cable a year ago saving $120 a month and just use a OTA TV antenna now. Had to install a booster that runs off of 120VAC, it really helped with the reception.

Amazon TV amplifier

Bill
BuckyBadger
Explorer
Aug 30, 2016
Chuck_thehammer wrote:
you do not say the miles to transmitter.

the larger the better. the higher the better.

but space and guy wires can limit options.

and Forget/Ignore advertising of Digital signals.. any good VHS/UHF antenna is good for your needs.. and a powered amplifier may not be needed.

50-80 depending what city I want as the crow files. Yes an amp will be needed.
Before the roof I have received signals over 80 miles away
Chuck_thehammer
Explorer
Aug 30, 2016
you do not say the miles to transmitter.

the larger the better. the higher the better.

but space and guy wires can limit options.

and Forget/Ignore advertising of Digital signals.. any good VHS/UHF antenna is good for your needs.. and a powered amplifier may not be needed.

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