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troyf650 
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Joined: 04 Nov 2012 Location: Altoona, IA Online Status: Offline Posts: 3 |
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 Topic: Antenna replacementPosted: 30 Mar 2015 at 5:56am |
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I have a 2010 rp-175 that has the360 antenna on it. I've noticed the new R-pods have a bat wing. Can my 360 antenna be replaced with a bat wing? I feel TV signals are being partially blocked by the AC unit.
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furpod
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Posted: 30 Mar 2015 at 9:15am |
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Yes they can, but the factory tells me they get way more complaints on the bat wing then the UFO..
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troyf650
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Posted: 30 Mar 2015 at 11:10am |
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Ok, just wondering as sometimes just seems I don't get half the channels I should.
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JStrube
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Posted: 30 Mar 2015 at 12:02pm |
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My round one took a leave of absence on the highway some place. The factory sent me a bat wing. Thing is, it won't quite fit, the radio antenna is in the way, etc. I need to get up there & do some seal removal & re-positioning of stuff. I would have gladly taken the round one.
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techntrek
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Posted: 30 Mar 2015 at 1:45pm |
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Honestly I would order an exterior UHF/VHF omnidirectional amplified antenna and string it up in a tree while in-camp. Case in point, recently our Directv was out for 10 days (the horrors!). Around day 5 I went to Wal-Mart and bought an indoor amplified antenna. With my tech background I know that height is king for antennas, but wasn't thinking about that when I set it next to our TV (first floor). I was able to pick up 2 stations - both sub-channels from the same transmitter so really just 1.
Duh, gotta get it high. So I attached it to a 100 foot length of coaxial and ran it upstairs against an outer wall in my office. Suddenly we had 27 channels from about 9 transmitters. The difference in height was only about 8 feet, but now it was 16 feet in the air instead of 8. Throw a rope over a 30 foot branch and haul an antenna up to that height and you'll pick up television signals from Moscow. Not really.
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Outbound
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Joined: 19 Nov 2009 Location: Oshawa, Ontario Online Status: Offline Posts: 767 |
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Posted: 30 Mar 2015 at 2:38pm |
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Before spending the money and effort to swap-out your antenna, I suggest that you wander around the campground, spot someone with a batwing antenna deployed, and ask them which channels they're able to receive. Then compare that to your own. I suspect that you won't find much of a difference.
+1 to techntrek's advice - the biggest boost to antenna reception is height above the ground.
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techntrek
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Posted: 30 Mar 2015 at 3:19pm |
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If you do get an exterior antenna and find yourself in a parking lot for the night, sticking the antenna on an upper shelf inside will give you the same reception as the roof antenna would have.
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pepmac
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Posted: 01 Apr 2015 at 3:03pm |
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the bat wing is an awful antenna we would gladly take back the one that we had in our 2010 ..
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troyf650
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Posted: 01 Apr 2015 at 5:29pm |
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The bat wing on my larger camper works way better than this one. In comparing antennas here right now I can't get CBS station at all and people with bat wing do
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cjanderson
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Posted: 26 Oct 2021 at 8:38pm |
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i am at seaside OR now and i know it is nearly halloween but it is weird, i can close a cabinet door and the radio comes on suddenly. the other day i walked up to enter the
pod and the radio came on Could there be a short somewhere? Anyone have problems with the system? I also get nothing when I run auto scan for TV by antenna. Does the antenna raise and search on its own or do I need to find a way to raise it? Thanks Newbie |
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