Connecting radio to Winegard batwing antenna

you can, but you might want to use a tv/fm splitter on that line, so as to send only the right band to the radio, and reduce possible interfernce

I ran into this same problem. I replaced the Omni directional ant. on the roof with a Jack ant. The Omni's power supply (wall plate) had a connection for the radio but the Jack ant. power supply did not.
I called Jack and they told me as long as the power supply is putting out 12V to the ant. itself, the existing Omni's P.S. would be fine.
So that's what I did; I used the old antenna's power supply for the new antenna with the radio connected to it.
It works flawlessly.

Just keep in mind 12VDC is sent up to the BATWING ANTENNA when in use. Whereever you tap into RG Cable just be sure you will not get into the 12VDC that run along the same RG cable to power up the RF Amplifier inside the BAT WING housing...

Might keep your BATWING antenna from working normally...

Might also burn up something in your radio circuit too...

Just check for 12VDC before tapping into the RG cable circuit...

Roy Ken

RoyB wrote:
Just keep in mind 12VDC is sent up to the BATWING ANTENNA when in use. Whereever you tap into RG Cable just be sure you will not get into the 12VDC that run along the same RG cable to power up the RF Amplifier inside the BAT WING housing...

Might keep your BATWING antenna from working normally...

Might also burn up something in your radio circuit too...

Just check for 12VDC before tapping into the RG cable circuit...

Roy Ken

Good point, a splitter could allow that 12V to back-feed into the radio.

Wired correctly there should be no 12v on the output side of the antenna "box"

ScottG wrote:

RoyB wrote:
Just keep in mind 12VDC is sent up to the BATWING ANTENNA when in use. Whereever you tap into RG Cable just be sure you will not get into the 12VDC that run along the same RG cable to power up the RF Amplifier inside the BAT WING housing...

Might keep your BATWING antenna from working normally...

Might also burn up something in your radio circuit too...

Just check for 12VDC before tapping into the RG cable circuit...

Roy Ken

Good point, a splitter could allow that 12V to back-feed into the radio.

Scott I haven't ever checked but I think the electronics in the VANGARD Antenna Wall Plate should have diodes installed in the HDTV connections points to prevent this from happening. I need to check that...



I know for sure I have 12VDC on the same RG cable feeding the BATWING OTA Antenna but do not know if there is also 12VDC feeding the main HDTV or the Bedroom HDTV RG cable feeds...

Should be an easy test to make... I guess if you used one of those NO DC PASS splitters it would work ok... I think the OP said he has a BEDROOM feed that he doesn't use...

Roy Ken

pirlbeck wrote:
I am replacing the Jensen Omni antenna that blew off last summer with a Winegard Sensar IV. With the old antenna setup the Jensen radio antenna lead was connected to a port on the back of the Jensen amplifier face plate. As this pickup camper only has one TV, can I just connect the radio antenna lead to the second TV connection on the rear of the Winegard amplifier face place, same as it was with the Jensen antenna? Or would it be better to tee it in the coax before the wall plate?

How will this affect AM radio reception? Is there any way to improve the AM reception?

Thanks!

Most small antennas with amplifiers like Winegard have a FM "trap" built into the amp. The trap reduces the amount of FM signal passed by the antenna. This is done to prevent FM broadcasts from overloading a TV tuner on some of the channels.

You will get SOME FM, but not all that much.

As far as AM, not going to improve that, antenna length is far too short for AM wavelengths, so doubt the would be any improvement and I suspect the antenna amp does not have enough bandwidth to pass or amplify the AM band.

Best bet for the AM/FM radio is to buy a external aftermarket auto replacement antenna..

I would use a proper splitter as well. BUT.. I am TOLD that Winegard "Filters" the FM band so the antenna will nto work for Radio

Since I almost never use radios in this RV (dont' recieve well) I have not tried. I got a real good AM radio if I need one.

Gdetrailer wrote:

Best bet for the AM/FM radio is to buy a external aftermarket auto replacement antenna..

+1

Unless there is a port specifically designed for AM/FM signal split-off, you should NOT attempt this. For reasons already mentioned.

Gdetrailer wrote:


Best bet for the AM/FM radio is to buy a external aftermarket auto replacement antenna..

Like they put on trailers for many, many years, before the last round of cost cutting. They shouldn't be allowed to advertise AM/FM when little is done to actually allow reception.