Best Digital TV Antenna
Hello fellow RVers.This coming summer will be our first "seasonal" at Lakewood CG in West Swanton,Vermont.We would like to know which Digital TV antenna will be best.Will the Winegard "batwing" that c...
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Dutch_12078 wrote:
There are no "digital" antennas except in the minds of an antenna company's marketing department. A good working Winegard batwing works well, and even better with the addition of the Winegard Wingman UHF booster and their SensarPro signal finder/amplifier. If the King Jack worked substantially better for someone, there's a good likelihood their previous amplified batwing had failed in some fashion, or was the low end non-amplified model supplied with some low end RV's years ago. A licensed broadcast engineer and respected member of this forum has scientifically tested both antennas, and determined that the batwing/Wingman was superior to the Jack, particularly for the VHF channels.
Batwing vs.BatMan vs. Jack: The Results..
correct. any antenna cut for OTA TV frequencies will receive digital TV signals...new antennas, 50-yr old antennas or anything in-between. makes no difference. the antenna cannot determine the transmission mode (analog, digital). it simply sends any received signal to the TV which can and does detect the mode and displays it on the screen in the form of a usable picture. the same is true for high-def vs. standard def. HD/SD is not something the antenna can detect. the TV receiver does that job.
what does make a difference especially in an RV environment is the height-above-average-terrain (HAAT) of the transmit and receive antennas, amplification of received signal, age and condition of the coaxial cable connecting the antenna to the TV and any obstructions between the transmit and receive antennas.
