roof antenna

My digial converter was $20, $19.99 at Walmart today.

Digital converters run 50-100. New digital TV's. well the one I used in the front of MY intruder was 90 bucks at a Pawn shop plus 10 bucks on E-bay for the matching remote (A univesal remote is only a dollar at the dollar store (Tree I think) but it will not handle all fucntions).

How I choose my Replacement.. The Tape Measure method

I removed 4 screws and removed the facia trim from teh TV, this allowed me to measure the width of the opening.. I got a TV at teh pawn shop that was EXACTLY the same length

I then did a bit of cuttong on the floor of the head-banger box and raised said floor up and re-attached it, likewise I cut the trim down so it fit.. Looks like it was the original install, but its shorter, do nto bang head any more and it's DIGITAL. I have about 102.00 into that upgrade.

Rear TV was purchasewd new off the scratch and ding table but the install was considerably different for differnet reasons.

Long term plan is to "Finish" the space behind the new flat screen and use it for video and audio storage.

You can actually buy converter boxes with the capability of recording for well under $50, like this one from WalMart on sale for $20. Ad a usb drive and have a personal video recorder.

Of course, I would just buy a new TV, but that is a lot more work.

Thx everyone. I was thinking it's best to buy new tvs. After all I've done to this rig in less than a year I am a bit tired of spending money. Also wasn't looking forward to renovating the large front TV box. The digital recivers are probably half the cost of new sets..... so might as well lick my wounds and get new tvs. Or just stay as is for now

You mentioned it came with a Satellite Dish or Dome antenna: You must have a matching Satellit Receiver for it to work.. Then it has to be "locked on" the proper satellite(s). NOTE that older antennas may not work with modern receivers.

If youa re talking about OTA TV antennas there are 3 common types. One is in the reply just above me, it may not have the 3 short elements (They can be added and should be) the poster did a fair job of describing it,
The next is the King Controls JACK , I do not recommend this.
The last is what I call a "Flying Saucer" it is round, about 3 or 4 inches high often mounted on kind of a tri-pod.. It is JUNK pure and simple, no way to make it work well other than replace with the antenna in teh last post (The best RV antenna)

One upgrade to that antenna.. (the one above) is the SENSAR PRO

As I type this I'm watching a show recorded last night from over 45 MIles away.. The above antenna, teh Sensar pro, careful aiming.

You do realize you have to first point the roof antenna to the town that is broadcasting the TV signals. Then you have to go to the TV menu and scan in available TV signals. Once the digital signals are logged into the TV set then you can watch the channels logged in...

We never used those digital converters. When it all switched over a few years we threw out our old and very heavy analog TV sets to the local dump and went to WALMART and picked up two digital LCD TV sets...

The digital to analog converter will convert those very nice digital TV signals back to the old analog mode so you will be losing out on the TV station quality big time...

Also your older setup might also need to have the BATWING Crank up antenna that looks like this photo. The add-on is dipoles that works very well with the new digital HDTV signals. Hard to beat on of these BATWING Antennas with the added dipoles.



Roy Ken

Your crank up antenna will receive digital signals just fine. What you need is a modern tv with a digital tuner. The old analog tv signals are all gone.

I will add a digital converter. Thx.

Likely an antenna and T.V.'s that old won't be digital. Probably needs relaced with a new one or add a digital converter.

We have hooked up to cable in several parks and had good reception. And when we watch DVD or vhf tapes reception is good