Has anyone tried this Winegard omni antenna?

Omni-directional antennas by their very nature have an equally poor range in all directions. Your aimable Jack and the Winegard Sensar series antennas have much better range in one or two directions, with poor range in the rest of the circle. Your better off keeping the Jack, and perhaps giving it a little more help by replacing the power injector with a Winegard SensarPro power injector and inline amplifier. Winegard's Sensar series antennas with the Wingman add-on and SensarPro will still typically out perform the Jack though.

It's an Omni, enough said. There is a very good reason you haven't seen one on a house in the last 65+ years

Just to double check your statement for pointing the JACK antenna and the BATWING antenna.


This JACK Antenna photo would be pointing to the RIGHT of the photo.



This BATWING Antenna with UHF DIPOLEs is shown pointing to the RIGHT of the photo.
Photos from GOOGLE Images

In my case when comparing the JACK and BATWING Antenna looking for WASHINGTON DC NATIONAL BROADCAST Network TV Station which is over 50 miles away from where I live here in Northern Neck Virginia.

Both Antennas picked up the Washinton DC HDTV stations just fine. I think I was getting around 40 Digital stations in all.

The probably I was having with the JACK Antenna I had to reposition the antenna to view HDTV station coming from the Easy and West located TV station towers in Washinton DC. These are located in two groups on each side of town it seems.

With the BATWING Antenna I was able to position in the center of these two location and pick them all up equally well.

This was telling me the BATWING is more BROADBAND with its BEAM WIDTH which tells me the KING Antenna is actually better in performance than the BATWING. However since I was able to use the BATWING to pick up both tower groups of HDTV signals with one position I went back to the BATWING antenna.

Did not want to reposition the Antenna when I changed HDTV channels - HDTV reception was the same high quality quality using either antenna.

Roy Ken

I just replaced my Jensen omni with a Winegard Sensar IV and I get about 3X the channels. Not the exact comparison the OP wants but I'm very happy.

2 out of 3 reviews were negative... Nuf said! Move on to something different. Go to plan B.

If you are lazy or not very good at turning a knob than the omni antenna is for you. Generally poor but you will get a few channels. If you do a search on this sit you will discover lots of seriously good discussion and critical analysis comparing various over the air style antennas, the bat-wing style proved to be the very best.

I tried two omni style antennas, they're now on the floor in the corner of my garage I just don't have the energy to put the where they belong - in the trash. I reinstalled my wing-bat, it works well.

I had the older version of the Winegard Omni on my Weekend Warrior and it worked well. I have a Jensen Omni on my Arctic Fox and it is not as good as my previous Winegard. At home, I run a RCA omni in the attic and it works well. Look at the 1750, 1650 and older 1450 amplified versions.

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Bought & installed the omni. Reception poor. Sent it back to CW for a refund. Purchased a Jack and received almost 40 channels. Very satisfied with its performance. Good luck in your decision.

HAGD,
Alex

I think the issue with the directionals is when you have towers at different angles and you have to adjust the antenna when changing channels. I have no doubt the directionals pull in weaker channels and reject more noise. I'm considering running two directionals at home to get my full channel selection.

Bedlam wrote:
I think the issue with the directionals is when you have towers at different angles and you have to adjust the antenna when changing channels. I have no doubt the directionals pull in weaker channels and reject more noise. I'm considering running two directionals at home to get my full channel selection.

looks like WinegRd is working on an auto-tracker (for lack of a better description). There were the next big thing when DTV 1st started but it never took off. When you do an auto scan, the TV talks to a smart antenna to determine in what direction each came from. Twas a good idea