Eagle Cap's NEW Digital HD Concealed interior mount antenna

Think of radio waves like water in your TC. The pump makes usable water pressure from what is already available. The amplifier takes an existing signal to make it stronger so it can be decoded in video and audio.

If you over pressurize your water system you have a chance of bursting seals or lines and making a mess. Over amplifying a signal (distortion) will overpower the decoder and make a video and audio mess.

Super_Dave wrote:
Jeff, now school me on an amplified antenna. How does plugging it in grab more signal?

It doesn't grab anymore signal it just amplifies the signal that you get to make it stronger to send it onto the TV.

Jeff, now school me on an amplified antenna. How does plugging it in grab more signal?

Super_Dave wrote:

SCVJeff wrote:

Super_Dave wrote:
We use a digital antenna at our cabin and inside the house with a short cable performs much better than high, outside but with a longer cable. Signal loss in the cable and number of connections seems to be the biggest deal with a digital antenna.

There is no such thing as a digital antenna.

Any idea why Eagle Cap and another 100 sources on the internet advertise them with that title? Digital capable?

You wernt around when everything was "Turbo" something or another? Just like no action movie is complete without crashing at least one helicopter. "Digital" is nothing more than a cool buzzword in LOTS of cases, this being one.

Try this: There is really no such thing are a digital TV signal. Maybe thats why analog antennas work so well... :) Back on point..

On a lighter note:

If a finger is a digit ...

and you touched the antenna connector on your TV set with a finger ...

and that allowed you to receive a few TV stations ...

that means your finger would be a "digital" antenna. ;)

Super_Dave wrote:

SCVJeff wrote:
There is no such thing as a digital antenna.

Any idea why Eagle Cap and another 100 sources on the internet advertise them with that title? Digital capable?

It's an advertising scam, just like the companies that were selling COL0R TV antennas in the mid '50s.

In the '40s it was common to mount the outside antenna on the chimney where the corrosive by-products of combustion would quickly degrade the performance of the antenna. This degradation went unnoticed because during that time the TV stations were installing more powerful transmitters and mounting their antennas on top of ever taller buildings and towers.
The average consumer would spend as much as a month's pay for a COL0R TV set and be disappointed in the picture quality because he needed a new antenna. The scammers advertised in the Sunday supplements and sold $20 antennas for $150 just by saying they were COL0R TV antennas.

In the words of P. T. Barnum, "There is one born every minute."

TV antenna manufacturers just about dried up and closed shop before analog was being phased out for digital. These companies dusted off old models and repackaged them as "digital" antennas and newcomers came on the market with new antennas also labeled digital. As long as your "analog" antenna has good UHF reception, it will pick up digital broadcasts well. It was all about the marketing to make new sales - If people only knew that their old antenna was just fine...

SCVJeff wrote:

Super_Dave wrote:
We use a digital antenna at our cabin and inside the house with a short cable performs much better than high, outside but with a longer cable. Signal loss in the cable and number of connections seems to be the biggest deal with a digital antenna.

There is no such thing as a digital antenna.

Any idea why Eagle Cap and another 100 sources on the internet advertise them with that title? Digital capable?

Super_Dave wrote:
We use a digital antenna at our cabin and inside the house with a short cable performs much better than high, outside but with a longer cable. Signal loss in the cable and number of connections seems to be the biggest deal with a digital antenna.

There is no such thing as a digital antenna. But if your antenna is a ways away with really old RG6 or worse, RG59, with splitters, etc. that can really affect performance, and using an indoor antenna that works better bears that out.

Since all but a few stations are in Walnut Grove, it probably makes no sense to fix the outside antenna if the other works.

bighatnohorse wrote:

SCVJeff wrote:
There is no substitute for height and a clear unobstructed shot.. Period.

Don't know what this antenna is or what it looks like, but the above statement is the rule of physics. It was designed by a bunch of RV designers, not anyone that knows radio.

So it's up to you.. Do you want something that works as well as anything out there once you're out if the city, or a stealthy antenna because it looks cool?

Your signature shows a 34 motor home.
And clears up why you would post such a thing in the Truck Camper forum.

I know exactly where I posted it. Whats that have to do with antenna performance?