RV Television Reception

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RV TV Reception

Try looking HERE....Dennis

The new TV will have the necessary digital tuner needed.

Antenna.......an old metal coat hanger will work

If you have a "batwing" antenna it's probably a Winegard. They offer an accessory element called "Wingman" that attaches without tools and makes a huge difference. The original analog TV channels 2-13 were VHF, then UHF was added to provide analog channels 14 and up.
DTV/HDTV broadcasting is ALL UHF! That's where Wingman comes in, because the original Winegard batwing was built for VHF. Adding it to an older antenna optimizes it for UNF.
So even if your favorite channels are 4, 7 and 11, and they come up that way on your channel display and remote control, they are really UHF channels. Computer wizardry allows them to display with legacy channel numbers.
Bottom line, your Winegard will drive an analog TV using a converter box, or a new digital TV straight from the antenna (through the booster of course!). But adding Wingman will help.

Nothing. Your antenna will pick up digital just fine, although it is directional. Meaning if you move the antenna you will pick up a station, if you move it to a different location, you may loose it, but pick up a different station.

They do make those flat square antennas (As seen on TV - commercials), that do work quite well. We have 2 in our home to watch over-the-air television. We purchased them from Best Buy. The advantage to them is, they are all directional.

They do make a similar one that can be mounted on your RV antenna by removing the old old batwing, but I think the little square portable ones will probably work just fine also.

Or do nothing, and just use your batwing style antenna. My mother had an old over-the-air antenna on her house. It had only 1 prong left on it. I plugged it into her television, and she got a bunch of channels - Digital. Worked OK until a tree branch finally fell and knocked over the entire antenna. I got her a simple rabbit ear antenna, and she's been using it ever since. It pulls in about 45 digital channels.

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