Wingman on Sensar...No Joy!!!

MNtundraRet wrote:
The problem with your setup is that the wind could catch the Sensor Antenna and lift it enough to come off the "U" bracket which holds it in stowed position.

The wind may then loosen the nut inside the roof by pushing the antenna towards the rear. Same thing can happen if someone rotates the antenna while on the roof. Getting at and retightening the Nut is one PITA.

I had the Batwing with Wingman attachment mounted for at least two years and several thousand miles prior to the Jack with no problems.

My previous RV was a pickup camper with the Batwing mounted front to back and had one wing bend up from the wind.

As mentioned previously, the head can not be mounted the opposite direction.

Winegard instructs you to "mount antenna so that when it is resting in travel position it is pointing toward the rear of the vehicle".

Farmerjon wrote:
Winegard instructs you to "mount antenna so that when it is resting in travel position it is pointing toward the rear of the vehicle".

I did read the instructions and was aware of this, but with the Wingman attached it would not work. It has been mounted sideways for 5 years and 50,000 miles, at least two years with the Batwing.

IAMICHABOD wrote:

SCVJeff wrote:

1775 wrote:
I was looking at adding the Wingman and went up to the RV roof first and saw that I would have the same problem with the black tank vent - only more so on the roof of my small RV. I saw that the Wingman could not be mounted on the other side and just gave up on it. It would be nice if Winegard made one with the ability to flip it.

and this is a case where it just makes sense to replace it with a Jack

Or a Rayzar made by Winegard.:B

i still have the analyzer ready to test the batwing (my ref) up against the new Rayzor. Just takes an afternoon its not 110 degrees on the roof.

It will be very interesting to see if Jeff's results are similar to the results I posted of the Rayzar Air a year or so back. Mostly, the results were excellent but about what would be expected. It was much less directional but it was also much less effective vs. a properly pointed Sensar. A properly pointed Rayzar Air outperformed an incorrectly pointed Sensar (with Wingman) in total number of channels (the Rayzar Air is bi-directional and the Sensar is only bi-directional in VHF).
The results were posted here but not using something as sophisticated as Jeff's oscilloscope.

Tom_M wrote:

Farmerjon wrote:
Winegard instructs you to "mount antenna so that when it is resting in travel position it is pointing toward the rear of the vehicle".

I did read the instructions and was aware of this, but with the Wingman attached it would not work. It has been mounted sideways for 5 years and 50,000 miles, at least two years with the Batwing.

Hah! You didn't read the fine print where it said it would fly off in pieces after 6 years or 60,000 miles:B