How to tell bat wing type
I've never had an RV with the crank up antenna. My new to me 5er has one. How can I tell if it is able to get the digital OTA signal? Will I need anything else to make it work with my tv?
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Some alternate HD antennae have small "wall wart" converters to supply the power up the coax to the amplifier in the antenna. These have a particular "12v" amount of voltage.
I asked Terk, eg, if their antenna I bought a few years ago when the bat wing died, would work on the Wingard booster "12v" which uses the wide range of 12v an RV has. Yes it does. So you don't have to use the wall wart if it is not convenient to use with the inverter you have on anyway to run the TV set.
One I tried had a 6v output from the wall wart instead of 12v so that was no use unless you used the inverter. Read the info on that before you take it home from the store.
Lately, after the Terk got water in it somehow, I got the Jack which has a way to mount on the Wingard mast ( I bet Wingard doesn't like that!) and it too has its own wall wart, but you can just use the Wingard installed 12v booster set-up in your RV and the various amounts of 12v voltage don't bother the Jack antenna amplifier.
If you do want the Wingman for your batwing, note the warning they have in the manual that it sticks out and may not fit on your RV roof when lowered next to say the A/C shroud. The Jack is one way around that. (It also works quite well :) )
For fun, I tried one of those coax power boosters you can get and it didn't work. You can't boost the booster like that.
I asked Terk, eg, if their antenna I bought a few years ago when the bat wing died, would work on the Wingard booster "12v" which uses the wide range of 12v an RV has. Yes it does. So you don't have to use the wall wart if it is not convenient to use with the inverter you have on anyway to run the TV set.
One I tried had a 6v output from the wall wart instead of 12v so that was no use unless you used the inverter. Read the info on that before you take it home from the store.
Lately, after the Terk got water in it somehow, I got the Jack which has a way to mount on the Wingard mast ( I bet Wingard doesn't like that!) and it too has its own wall wart, but you can just use the Wingard installed 12v booster set-up in your RV and the various amounts of 12v voltage don't bother the Jack antenna amplifier.
If you do want the Wingman for your batwing, note the warning they have in the manual that it sticks out and may not fit on your RV roof when lowered next to say the A/C shroud. The Jack is one way around that. (It also works quite well :) )
For fun, I tried one of those coax power boosters you can get and it didn't work. You can't boost the booster like that.
