Residential tv antenna with powered amp?

DutchmenSport wrote:
Sorry, should be a little clearer. My terminology is not the best:



Not real sure how an Omni works, but the signal is amplified at the booster. Nothing feeds back to the antenna. It's like a vacuum sweeper. The motor is sucking the air into a hose. The booster is sucking the signal into the wire (boosting it). Any "power" needed (if it uses any) should go through the coax cable, same as a Satallite Dish - like the Tailgater for DishTV.) There is a coax connection at the antenna on your camper. simply unscrew it and use the connector, above, and run longer length to your new antenna.

If you have one of those square (as seen on TV) in-house antennas they advertise, or anything like that, you can plug it into the existing wire that attaches to the Omni and see if you get signals. Really, that might be sufficient to pull in all kinds of channels.

Ok, I understand now. Thanks

Sorry, should be a little clearer. My terminology is not the best:



Not real sure how an Omni works, but the signal is amplified at the booster. Nothing feeds back to the antenna. It's like a vacuum sweeper. The motor is sucking the air into a hose. The booster is sucking the signal into the wire (boosting it). Any "power" needed (if it uses any) should go through the coax cable, same as a Satallite Dish - like the Tailgater for DishTV.) There is a coax connection at the antenna on your camper. simply unscrew it and use the connector, above, and run longer length to your new antenna.

If you have one of those square (as seen on TV) in-house antennas they advertise, or anything like that, you can plug it into the existing wire that attaches to the Omni and see if you get signals. Really, that might be sufficient to pull in all kinds of channels.

DutchmenSport wrote:
I have a 55 (plus) year old aluminum UHF antenna (they were a square wire design back in the 1960's) that my mother had stored away in her garage attic. (my dad was a TV repair man and he installed antenna's and when UHF came out, he installed them. So this is one that he never sold and was never outside.)

When we canceled DishTV at the house and decided to go over the air instead, I got that old antenna and put it on a pole outside my house. It has no booster or anything. The coax wire it's connected to is the wire that DishTV installed. It runs to a splitter and feeds to 8 different rooms in the house. From antenna through all the wire, there must be strung through the house and under the house, at least a total of 500 feet of coax, and the signal is great on every television! No booster!

Here is what I suggest. Set up your pole outside your camper. Attach the antenna. Run the coax from the antenna to the coax attached to the Omni. Use a joiner (double end threaded connector) to join both wires together, and then use your television inside the camper as normal. You can still flip on the booster or turn the booster off. I suspect, if you turn the booster on, you'll get many more available stations.

At our hosue, and we live in the country, we get about 55 stations from all directions, North, South, East and West. (remember, no booster). In the camper sitting in the drive way with the bat wing antenna, we get the same stations from all directions, but the booster has to be on.

So, if you simply connect to the existing wire that attaches to the Omni, you can experiment what what works best witout disturbing anything original factory installed on your camper.

That's what I'd do.

When you say "joiner" are you talking about a splitter? Two inputs on one end-omni plus residential, and one output to stock camper coax?

If so, how does power go from switch by TV to the omni? Isn't it through the coax? Or is it a seperate wire from switched amp to omni booster?

Thanks.

I have a 55 (plus) year old aluminum UHF antenna (they were a square wire design back in the 1960's) that my mother had stored away in her garage attic. (my dad was a TV repair man and he installed antenna's and when UHF came out, he installed them. So this is one that he never sold and was never outside.)

When we canceled DishTV at the house and decided to go over the air instead, I got that old antenna and put it on a pole outside my house. It has no booster or anything. The coax wire it's connected to is the wire that DishTV installed. It runs to a splitter and feeds to 8 different rooms in the house. From antenna through all the wire, there must be strung through the house and under the house, at least a total of 500 feet of coax, and the signal is great on every television! No booster!

Here is what I suggest. Set up your pole outside your camper. Attach the antenna. Run the coax from the antenna to the coax attached to the Omni. Use a joiner (double end threaded connector) to join both wires together, and then use your television inside the camper as normal. You can still flip on the booster or turn the booster off. I suspect, if you turn the booster on, you'll get many more available stations.

At our hosue, and we live in the country, we get about 55 stations from all directions, North, South, East and West. (remember, no booster). In the camper sitting in the drive way with the bat wing antenna, we get the same stations from all directions, but the booster has to be on.

So, if you simply connect to the existing wire that attaches to the Omni, you can experiment what what works best witout disturbing anything original factory installed on your camper.

That's what I'd do.

Old-Biscuit wrote:
When we traveled I also carried a regular TV array antenna for those areas whne TV signals were marginal

Antenna was mounted on a 5' pipe that I would set up in flag pole mounts I had on ladder.
I would then connect coax cable from antenna to 'cable' connection on rig.
Then turn 'booster' switch OFF (DC voltage interferes----only needed for OTA antenna)

I have my Directv hooked up to the cable input.
I don't want to hook up a splitter at cable input because I've heard the satellite won't pass through a splitter, but also because I use a SD sat box and have it hooked to tv through coax on channel 3. And I want sat on channel 3 and all the OTA channels on their own. So I don't have to do rescans all the time. Kind of screwy.
Does that make sense?

When we traveled I also carried a regular TV array antenna for those areas whne TV signals were marginal

Antenna was mounted on a 5' pipe that I would set up in flag pole mounts I had on ladder.
I would then connect coax cable from antenna to 'cable' connection on rig.
Then turn 'booster' switch OFF (DC voltage interferes----only needed for OTA antenna)