Power antenna

Thor ultra lite tahoe 23 ft 2002 has little to do with the antenna button. What type antenna do you have? Do you have the wall plate with the antenna jack on it? That is usually where the power button is. Are you sure it is a powered antenna? Some are not.

It's the black button.

yup - that's where mine is

We can't find the plate in the trailer! How can we tell if it is not a power antenna? it looks like a wineguard we thought they were all power! We have heard of some being hidden in strange places!

noleakman wrote:
We can't find the plate in the trailer! How can we tell if it is not a power antenna? it looks like a wineguard we thought they were all power! We have heard of some being hidden in strange places!

From Winegard:

Question:
Have just acquired an RV with a Winegard batwing (Sensar) antenna that came supplied with it. I'm not sure if it has an amplifier in it, but reception is poor in some of the areas where we camp. How can I tell if my antenna is amplified or not?

Tech Tip:
To tell whether your antenna has an amplifier built into it, you will need to be able to get on the roof of the RV. If this is something that you can do safely and comfortably, then raise the antenna and find the “W” shaped hole in the bottom of the antenna housing. Look in this hole, you will find one of three things.1. Nothing or tiny little wire(s)2. A fairly large wire.3. A circuit board.

The first tells that you have a Non-amplified antenna. The other two are amplified.

If you don't have a wall plate where you get the antennae connection from it is not too likely you have a boosted antennae.

All the TT's and MH's I've owned the 12 volt outlet and switch to amplify the antenna was in the overhead cabinet.

The switch is very small, and very hard to see inside the dark cabinet. When you switch it on. THEN a red light appears next to it. All RV antenna's are amplified you just have to turn it on.

I put one of the touch lights in that cabinet so I CAN see the darn switch to turn it on! :B

rockhillmanor wrote:
All RV antenna's are amplified you just have to turn it on.

In the past, many were built without an amplifier. The OP still needs to check the antenna as outlined in my previous post. Someone may have replaced the antenna and he needs to know what is there. After checking, then a determination can be made as to whether a switch is needed.

noleakman wrote:
We can't find the plate in the trailer! How can we tell if it is not a power antenna? it looks like a wineguard we thought they were all power! We have heard of some being hidden in strange places!

Mine is hidden below and to the right of the pop up television. It took me a week to find it. The television is stored on a cabinet at the rear of the rig and you push it down into the cabinet for storage so it becomes hidden below the surface of the cabinet. I too was getting not so great reception until I found the amplifier and turned it on.

Look around/near where the television gets it's power. There will be a wall plate regardless. If it's amplified it will have the little round black button and a green light will illuminate when it is amplified. I also found if the amplifier was on it interfered with my satellite reception.

Seems like you could follow the antenna cable from the TV and see where it goes.