I drove off with the antenna up...

If good OTA TV reception is not a priority, there are a few non-crank up antennas that will work well enough if you're fairly close to the transmitting towers. For the best overall reception though, your best bet is replacing the original crank up Winegard batwing with a Winegard Sensar IV and getting one of the "Antenna is up" hang tags that Jim mentioned. I clip our tag to the ignition key slot when the antenna is up, and to the antenna crank when it's down. All of the parts for the Winegard antenna are readily available, including a Sensar IV head only. Repairs are usually pretty straight forward.

Which antenna did you lose... HDTV or SATELLITE....

If it was your OTA BATWING antenna you can replace the mechanism with one of this popular JACK Anetnna which sits close to the roof and only rotates... Of course you will lose some performance but won't have to worry about it being up or down...



If it was your SAT antenna you will have to replace with sometime similar. You will need the dish to pinpoint the satellite in the Southern Sky... They do make Satellite antennas that are flush mount to the roof...

Roy Ken

The black round object is an antenna. On the left between the two fan covers.

Ask Google.

Yes, I've seen those. Would rather just not have to crank one up and worry about it at all.

I did that too...once. My fault.....so i bought one of those "Antenna is up" things from CW. Hang it on the crank every time. No more problems.