Replacing Crank up Antenna Suggestions?
Thinking about replacing our Crank up TV Antenna with a fixed Roof Mount TV Antenna. I've seen a few on campers going down the road that looks to to stand about a foot tall. As anybody else replaced...
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Trust me, I don't like doing useless scans any more than you do. And while TV Fool, and other OTA pointing programs get you in the area, they still don't allow you to peak the antenna, and there are very very few TV's that have that capability any more.
As far as the built-in amp, it does work. I did the testing on it to see what each step from 0-20 actually did. IF you fiddled yours and saw no difference, either the station was so strong that the TV simply didn't need the gain (or loss), or you're so far out that the amp did you no good to begin with. Either way, now that you have it, get to know and trust what it's telling you, including matching the receive level on the Sensar to where the TV actually starts to recover a picture. Once you kinda know where that is its easy to do a scan and realize what the Sensar is telling you just won't make pix on the TV, the go for another direction, or a book.
I love my expensive toys to do the testing. But when camping, what I want is to do the antenna pointing dance, get it done, and go out to stoke the fire.
As far as the built-in amp, it does work. I did the testing on it to see what each step from 0-20 actually did. IF you fiddled yours and saw no difference, either the station was so strong that the TV simply didn't need the gain (or loss), or you're so far out that the amp did you no good to begin with. Either way, now that you have it, get to know and trust what it's telling you, including matching the receive level on the Sensar to where the TV actually starts to recover a picture. Once you kinda know where that is its easy to do a scan and realize what the Sensar is telling you just won't make pix on the TV, the go for another direction, or a book.
I love my expensive toys to do the testing. But when camping, what I want is to do the antenna pointing dance, get it done, and go out to stoke the fire.
