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If you are talking about the King/Jack antenna, replacement for Batwing, I'm sure many have done this. I use a King/Jack on a mast, fastened to my ladder, when my short distance Omni will not do the job.

Jerry

When I bought my RV it had a Winegard Batwing that was not working, I cleaned up all connections and tested to see if it was broken, it was,so I replaced it with a new bat wing then ran a Channel Scan I was not impressed with the amount of channels that I got. This was done in my driveway here in the south bay of So Calif about 30 miles from the transmitters, using my SensarPro.

I then went out and got a Wingman add on, that put my channel scan up to 47,but I had a clearance problem with the Wingman

So I opted to put a Jack on and my channel scan went up to 85

The debate will go on and on, but I know what works best for me,in the real world.

Replaced my useless wingaurd with the Jack and it was unbelieveable! My buddy had the same problem with his. He went to the Jack after he seen how much better mine was. Again, it was night and day.

I went from 15 channels in my driveway to over 70!!!! Well worth the money.

People will say there is no difference, but real world use says there is!

I replace the Winegard antenna on my TT with the jack antenna, easy replacement, I used the same cable and antenna booster, I doubled my on air channels with the jack, also the jack lays almost flat

I replaced a Jensen Omnidirectional with a King/Jack. Due to the location of the antenna, I wasn't able to consider a Winegard. The King/Jack was a huge improvement. As an aside, I park my trailer in my carport, the King clears it, but with a Winegard I wouldn't be able to use it in the carport.

I replaced the battwing on our last trailer and installed the King.
we always go camping in the same few places so I was well aware of the reception at each.
The King did much better everywhere, including at home in a metropolitan area.

I have replaced my Winegard antenna with a King Jack, but my biggest problem is the Jensen TV. Sometimes the King works best off the back side. I always get better reception with another TV.

Was at a RV park in MO. Got NO stations on the antenna so just for the heck of it, I put on the Jack. Went from 0 to two, Fox and Gritt. Was so tired of westerns by the end of three days. On another note, got lots of stations in Springfield, MO.

there are several models of the king jack antenna which model number are you using? tia bob

NascarBobnBeth wrote:
there are several models of the king jack antenna which model number are you using?

There are only two versions of King Jack antenna sold - a replacement head which will replace a Winegard Sensar head by mounting directly to the Winegard elevating base OR the complete Jack antenna which doesn't elevate but includes a signal finder. If contemplating the change from a Sensar to a King Jack one should be aware the Jack works best in the UHF range - fine for now as that's where most stations transmit after the change to digital transmission from analogue a few years ago but with proposals afoot to move some of these transmissions back to the VHF bands the Jack will be disappointingly ineffective. It's also a fallacy that the Jack is "better" - rather it's wider acceptance pattern makes users believe it's more sensitive when the fact is the Winegard Sensar IV, used properly, is arguably the best there is in terms of sensitivity. And yes, I've personally used both and currently run a Sensar IV powered with a Winegard SignalPro which is far superior to the Jack's simplistic signal finder. Personally, if I cared enough about watching OTA television I'd invest in a Winegard Rayzar Automatic that takes all of the guesswork out of the process and is rated to work just about as well as a Sensar IV. At this price point though I find I really don't care enough to spend that much so I can watch a little television while camping ... perhaps a good thing after all. ;)