Has anyone tried this Winegard omni antenna?
Clicky Link Has anyone tried this antenna. It seems to me a nice concept but it's only been reviewed three times, and two were bad. Supposed to be omni-directional... No aiming. I presently have a ...
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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
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
