Fix needed for older antenas?

TXiceman wrote:

nomoney wrote:
last year we went to camping world and purchased a replacement antennae head that is made for the digital signals.
It cost around $60 and was an easy procedure.

There is no such thing as a digital or HD antenna. The older antennas were designed to cover the VHF and UHF band. The newer antennas are aimed more to the UHF band where most of the stations have moved.

The digital signal is taken care of by the TV or convertor. The antenna simply receives a radio frequency signal.

I am a ham radio operator and use the same antenna for AM, FM, Sideband, CW (Morse code) and digital mode transmissions and receive.

With the current crop on antennas, for me, the best performing antenna is the Wineguard Sensar IV which includes the Wingeman attachment and an interior signal panel. I have not been impressed by the Jack antenna.

ken

When I was trouble shooting my current antenna issue I went out and bought one of the Antenna Direct antennas and was really impressed with its performance. Not sure how it's beam pattern compares with something like the Batwing w/wingman, but this type could be mounted on an existing Batwing mast and could be a decent alternative to the Batwing w/wingman. This antenna from what I can tell has better multipath and back ratio signal rejection properties because of it's design.



I guess you could call some of these type of planar antennas a better design for digital signals since a lot of issues with digital reception is the multipath interference that can happen which degrades the digital processing ability of the receiver.

Larry