Antenna not worth a "hill of beans"
New Palomino (Forest River) truck camper has a fixed round television antenna. Booster turned on. At home (twenty miles from local broadcast station), no reception over the air while parked in the exa...
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Acampingwewillgo wrote:thats great as long as you are in the driveway or urban camping. Put some distance to the transmitter and see what happens. There are other reasons an Omni is a bad deal for digital TV starting with multi-path from reflected signals off buildings and local mtns. This is no longer an analog world. There are no longer ghosting pictures, there is black.
While I agree, your not going to equal a Directional antenna's gain with any Omni antenna, I just removed my Bat-wing and have gone with my older Winegard saucer style antenna. While not scientific at all, I get over 100 broadcast station's in my drive-way. For me, OTA is a last resort although I do like the HD you can get with OTA since I have not found the need to upgrade SAT to HD in the RV as of yet.
