On Thu, 12 Jun 2014 11:07:44 -0400, wrote:

On Thu, 12 Jun 2014 09:49:28 -0400, Poquito Loco
wrote:

On Thu, 12 Jun 2014 08:56:15 -0400, H*a*r*r*o*l*d wrote:

On 6/12/2014 8:13 AM, Poquito Loco wrote:
On Wed, 11 Jun 2014 17:16:35 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:

On 6/11/2014 12:43 PM, Poquito Loco wrote:
On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 21:10:29 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:

On 6/10/2014 8:25 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:



If you are withing 20-25 miles of the transmitting tower, this super
duper antenna works splendidly for capturing HD broadcasts:

http://flowtv.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/ill12.png


I just tried an experiment for kicks.

I have a small, single pole antenna that I use on my receiver for FM
reception. It's half of an old rabbit ear antenna.

I hooked it up to my TV and did an autoscan. My house is probably
35-40 miles from the nearest transmitting antenna in Boston and the
single pole antenna is just sitting beside the TV. Autoscan found 7
digital channels.

Here's the antenna:

http://i802.photobucket.com/albums/yy303/Eisboch/antenna.jpg


Here's channel 7 in Boston using the single pole antenna:

http://i802.photobucket.com/albums/yy303/Eisboch/Channel7.jpg

Here's channel 2 (PBS) in Boston (blur is due to slow camera shutter
speed. HD picture on TV is perfect):

http://i802.photobucket.com/albums/yy303/Eisboch/Channel2-2.jpg

Only goes to show that there's nothing magic about the revised and
modernized rabbit ears that are being marketed as "HD Antennas".


What do you use on the Sprinter?


The Sprinter had an antenna that you cranked up but I never used it.
As described in a previous post I had a portable Direct TV dish that we
took with us along with the Direct TV receiver from the house.

We didn't use it often but it was nice if there was something special I
wanted to see or I just got bored silly camping. :-)



I see campers all the time with Direct TV dishes, but we don't use it at home and I wouldn't get it
just for the camper. I've found a place that will put a new Winegard http://tinyurl.com/k87xzo5 on
the trailer for $400, installed. I can live with that.

I hit a frozen tree branch in Baltimore with one of those once. Wasn't
pretty.

I'm assuming you'd not lowered it?

I am surprised they don't have the antenna connected to the leveling
foot circuit. Pick up the feet and the antenna goes down.

Most are hand-crank. Your idea would be one more thing to break. Besides, if I'm staying at a
'Flying J' for the night, I wouldn't want to put the feet down on the off chance I was going to
watch TV. (Which I can't do anyway 'cause Luddite won't give me a good deal on his Honda Generator.