hotrod4x5
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bankcardrep1 wrote:We were in Chattanooga this past week. Plenty of DTV. We have a Digital TV. Tuned to DTV Channel. It said Low Signal Strength and produced a crisp black screen. I keep hearing everyone say that the antenna is not important...but, maybe there is an amplifier or distribution system that is not passing the signal???there is a little green light where we plug the coax in the wall with an on off switch...no signal either way.
Rig is 06 Dutchman so it ought to be up to spec??? Did you try turning the antenna and rescanning? My batwing only works in a couple or orientations. Any other and I get nothing.
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Whoever everyone is, they are wrong. The antenna is absolutely the most important piece of producing a usable picture. If you cannot recover a signal there is little chance of making a picture.
Hotrod: The batwing is directional on UHF off the front of the antenna
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hotrod4x5
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SCVJeff wrote:Whoever everyone is, they are wrong. The antenna is absolutely the most important piece of producing a usable picture. If you cannot recover a signal there is little chance of making a picture.
Hotrod: The batwing is directional on UHF off the front of the antenna What is considered the front?
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hotrod4x5 wrote:
What is considered the front?
The side opposite the arm that raises and lowers antenna.
Here is a link to Winegard's Wingman. Shows a picture of the Wingman mounted. That side is front of antenna.
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hotrod4x5
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That's interesting. Currently my standard wingman works best with the blade pointed toward the broadcast antennas.
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for tazmangk..take a look
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Not to steal the post, but some say hooking up TV to converter box to antenna with power boost on will burn up the converter box. Some say no it won't. Which is it??? I have hooked up this way and have clear pictures from several stations at least 60 miles away. Concerned leaving the converter box on and hooked up to power will ruin the converter box.
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SCVJeff
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hotrod4x5 wrote:That's interesting. Currently my standard wingman works best with the blade pointed toward the broadcast antennas. The "front" of the antenna is the smallest element on the Wingman.
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so let me get this stright,right now I have the cable from the RV's antenna,going to the new converta box,then from the converta box ,back to the RV'S amp to feed both tv's..and they both work..So I'am OK???? Craneman 120
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Born2RV wrote:Thanks for clairfying this matter. I noted on the first page the sequence of installation is antenna distribution box converter tv and there is a temptation to hook the converter box directly to the antenna but that is bad. If I do not have a distribtion box, wouldn't I have to do that?
Also, I understand now that it is the TV not the atenna that determines if a converter box is needed. I was going to ask if they make a batwing that will receive the digital signal but it doesn't matter if my TV won't receive it. Thanks !!
I too have no "distribution box". Can anyone answer the question of how to hook up a coverter without a distribution box??
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