Stupid question, but does the antenna on the trailer work for radio also or just the TV? If just the TV, is there a signal booster you've used to pick up radio further out from towns?

It depends on what antenna you have. My round omni tv antenna is also the radio antenna. I think the more common tv antennas, such as the bat wing style, are tv only.Jerry

Very good question. They will work if you rout around the amplifier which often have a trap to reduce interference.

I think we would need the make and model of your RV along with the make and model of your radio before we could give a good answer. Does your RV have only on top ? Or does it have a antenna on it that looks like car antenna ?

Just the "T" antenna on top that screws up and down from inside. Not the car looking whip one. Sounds like its TV only, might look to see if the radio has a port to add one. Thank you all

The Winegard "Batwing" works for TV only.. In theory there is no reason you could not feed it to an FM radio, but I am told Winegard took steps to insure that will not work (Filtered the output so there is no FM) there are valid reasons for doing this which I do not wish to go into.No reason you can not hang an Omni Directional FM (S shaped loop) on top of the Batwing or elsewhere in the area for FMFor AM. the longest WHIP you can lay your hands on is best.

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tdsxt51
Explorer
May 26, 2017
moresmoke wrote:
I use my batwing for an FM antenna. My radio came with just a wire for an antenna. I made a short coax that will plug into the radio and connect to the tv antenna jack on the wall. I'm sure its not perfect and better reception could be achieved, but its good enough for my purposes.

Yes, that will work, but how is the cable coming out from behind the radio plug into the jack on the wall? A cleaner installation is to add a splitter behind the TV antenna jack and run your short piece of coax to the radio. That's how I did it anyway.
TurnThePage
Explorer
May 26, 2017
My OEM radio had a cable going up also. When I upgraded it, I found the antenna cable simply laid along the rafters in the roof. My new radio is HD, so I took the time to install an aftermarket antenna, which works quite well.

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