Winegard Sensar IV - reception symmetrical?
I just installed a Sensar IV and am very pleased with the significantly improved reception over the omni that came with the rig. We watch WESH 2 most frequently when we're not watching sat. TV. It'...
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The BATWING antennas are NOT very good antennas when you consider the FRONT TO BACK performance. The VHF only verson (NO DIPOLES ADDED) was real bad about front to back performance and worked almost equally well whether using the FRONT or BACK of antenna.
This is good for where we live here in Northern Nech Virginia. We point NORTH to pickup the WASHINTON DC station and then we can also pick up the RICHMOND stations off the back side of the ANTENNA.
Adding the UHF DIPOLE helped some of but we still get pretty good reception off the back side of the antenna.
A good antenna to use is the 8-BAY BOW TIE array panels which has great FRONT TO BACK isolation. This array however is like a 2 foot by three foot panel and not really suited to use on the RV ROOF to replace the BATWING antenna. Makes a great HOME mounted antenna however...
BATWING UHF VERSION Crank-up OTA Antenna
8 BAY BOW TIE HDBX8 ARRAY PANEL - AMAZON
Bottom line is use what works best for you...
Roy Ken
This is good for where we live here in Northern Nech Virginia. We point NORTH to pickup the WASHINTON DC station and then we can also pick up the RICHMOND stations off the back side of the ANTENNA.
Adding the UHF DIPOLE helped some of but we still get pretty good reception off the back side of the antenna.
A good antenna to use is the 8-BAY BOW TIE array panels which has great FRONT TO BACK isolation. This array however is like a 2 foot by three foot panel and not really suited to use on the RV ROOF to replace the BATWING antenna. Makes a great HOME mounted antenna however...
BATWING UHF VERSION Crank-up OTA Antenna
8 BAY BOW TIE HDBX8 ARRAY PANEL - AMAZON
Bottom line is use what works best for you...
Roy Ken
