Off air antenna
Hello All, I am very comfortable with technology but not overly familiar with the powered TV antennas that come on campers. Our trailer has the "flying saucer" type antenna. Tried it a few times ...
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Dutch_12078 wrote:
Those "flying saucer" antennas are omni-directional, something that the antenna engineering world refers to as "Equally bad in all directions." It's possible that you were just too far from the TV towers to pick up anything even though your neighbors more powerful directional antennas were able to receive stations.
First: not all of the "Flying Saucers" are omni the very first one I ever saw was marketed by RCA and was directional but you you do not have directional controls... Well then it's not directional.
Basically My opinion of them is... JUNK!
but your TV's. are they Modern Wide Screen capable of ATSC or older NTSC only NTSC well there are still a few stations from what I understand. low power and you can likely count 'em without running out of fingers.. but ATSC is the digital standard for broadcast.
Any TV made since I think 2007 has to be ATSC or clearly labeled as not.
Possible antenna issues other than the fact the saucer is junk
Bad coax Antenna to roof. Bad connector in roof. bad cable roof to Switch. bad switch. blown fuse.
On one RV I looked at there were no cables connected to the switch. THe prior owner had ripped 'em all out.
