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Car Forum / Driving, Maintenance, Tuning / RVs / November 2007Which TV Signal Amplifier to get for the RV ???
Motorola has one in Menards for $10 which is a 12 db unit. It has a bunch of specs on the back cover which im not at all familiar with. Upon doing a online search , I found one which is 20 db for $24 . Im trying to use this with my RV's roof antennae which uses cable ; would like to make the picture clearer for those stations that arent close and dont come in too well. So, what should be considered when buying one of these Amplifiers regarding the specs on it ? Thanks, Dave. > Motorola has one in Menards for $10 which is a 12 db unit. It has a > bunch of specs on the back cover which im not at all familiar with. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > buying one of these Amplifiers regarding the specs on it ? Thanks, > Dave. Seems that a good share of new RV's come with Winegard antennas and amps. They've worked well for me. Miles, I dont see an Amp on my Wineguard unless its put inside an inaccessible place. Anyway, I thought id try an external Amp to see if i could get a better picture on some of the channels. Need to know what these specs mean ...or.. at least be able to know what is considered better to purchase. > Miles, I dont see an Amp on my Wineguard unless its put inside an > inaccessible place. Anyway, I thought id try an external Amp to see if > i could get a better picture on some of the channels. Need to know > what these specs mean ...or.. at least be able to know what is > considered better to purchase. Does the wall panel where your tv's antenna cable plugs into have an on/off switch? Mine does. Pushing it turns on the amp and lights an LED on the wall plate. Makes a huge difference on picture quality. > > Miles, I dont see an Amp on my Wineguard unless its put inside an > > inaccessible place. Anyway, I thought id try an external Amp to see if [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > on/off switch? Mine does. Pushing it turns on the amp and lights an > LED on the wall plate. Makes a huge difference on picture quality. REPLY: Miles/Peter, Yes, i do have a small outlet wall plate with a red button on it that lights up when depressed. Can i still add an external amp. to get a better picture ? Does it matter to have two amps in series ? My RV is a 2008 . (sorry Sharron but i dont do teen porn and all the malicious stuff you sign me up for goes immediately into my junk file ; I thought Pagans were non malicious folks ) Dave > REPLY: Miles/Peter, Yes, i do have a small outlet wall plate with a > red button on it that lights up when depressed. Can i still add an > external amp. to get a better picture ? Does it matter to have two > amps in series ? You will short out the antenna if you add another booster. Just to see if your booster is working, with the red light on, go up to the antenna and disconnect the cable where it fastens to the antenna. With a volt meter set to 12 volts, you should read 12 volts between the center wire and the screw connector. If it doesn't, then just replace the defective amp made for that antenna. If all is working as it should, you cannot improve on it. Mine gets out anywhere from 20 to 50 miles, depending on the landscape. Tom J >REPLY: Can i still add an external amp. to get a better picture ? > Does it matter to have two amps in series ? My RV is a 2008. Not much point in adding an additional broadband amplifier to the some 13 or so tuned amplifiers already incorporated in your current system. Willard amplifiers already do a marvelous job on their own. Additional untuned broadband amplifiers wouldn't serve any useful purpose, beyond merely amplifying noise. >sorry Sharron but i dont do teen porn . . . . Sounds a whole lot more tolerable than geriatric porn! ?? Each to his own. > REPLY: Miles/Peter, Yes, i do have a small outlet wall plate with a > red button on it that lights up when depressed. Can i still add an > external amp. to get a better picture ? Does it matter to have two > amps in series ? Dave Depends what you are trying to do.... Usually the first amp is placed as close as possible and amplifies the signal (and any noise)... once it's been initially boosted (and then also has the noise in it), you can only further amplify the combined signal (like to compensate for line loss, or splitter loss in distribution systems)... As an example, Think of a sat dish.. The low noise amp is usually on the feed horn itself, and then line and distribution amps are added to keep the signal/noise at a level devices can use... If it were possible to amplify just the signal and not the noise, you could just put a couple dozen amps in series, get thousands of db in gain, and have the antenna on the roof pick up stuff from say china, or add a few dozen more, and get TV signals from say mars/moon/other galaxies... Haven't heard of anyone doing that.... :) On Nov 15, 5:05 pm, "Peter Pan" <PeterPanNOS...@AkamailNOSPAM.com> wrote: > norman...@gmail.com wrote: > [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > dozen more, and get TV signals from say mars/moon/other galaxies... Haven't > heard of anyone doing that.... :) REPLY: Thanks everyone . > On Nov 15, 5:05 pm, "Peter Pan" <PeterPanNOS...@AkamailNOSPAM.com> > wrote: [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > > REPLY: Thanks everyone . They all plonked you as DaveinLakeVilla so you appear as IbeDavid. This is DaveinLakeVilla on his new laptop; and it won't be long before the ingrate starts trolling his fundamentalist stupidity under this identity.. I helped this retard set up his computer and get everything sorted. In return he accused me of trying to send him a virus - In a .pdf file of all things; and he didn't even bother to scan the file; he just assumed out of ignorance. : Thjis parallels with his fundy garbage: Once again he's no idea what he's on about, he hasn't bothered to find anything out; he assumes it's right and believes it out of sheer ignorance and in the face of evidence to the contrary. He is a socially dysfunctional troll and is best killfiled wherever possible and avoided. If you try to help the cretin he just turns your help against you as soon as you have served your purpose. There's a specific definition of this condition but I don't recall what the name of it is. It's encapsulated within the term "psychotic". On Nov 16, 6:32 am, "Dr H@l0nf1r£$" <sha...@NOSPAM.kustomkomputa.co.uk.invalid> wrote: > > On Nov 15, 5:05 pm, "Peter Pan" <PeterPanNOS...@AkamailNOSPAM.com> > > wrote: [quoted text clipped - 41 lines] > > - Show quoted text - Why did you even helped out that ignorant POS in the first place? Watch and Wait He'll start using a different address every few days to get around killfiles, but that's what trolls do > On Nov 16, 6:32 am, "Dr H@l0nf1r£$" > <sha...@NOSPAM.kustomkomputa.co.uk.invalid> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 51 lines] > He'll start using a different address every few days to get around > killfiles, but that's what trolls do He actually emailed me and virtually begged me to help him set up. As soon as he got what he wanted he accused me; the vile piece of crap. On Nov 16, 11:04 am, "Dr H@l0nf1r£$" <sha...@NOSPAM.kustomkomputa.co.uk.invalid> wrote: > > Why did you even helped out that ignorant POS in the first place? > > Watch and Wait [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > - Show quoted text - Dimwit's a borderline psychopath with delusions of grandeur, or even worse, a paranoid schizophrenic. Who else would risk being thrown in the slammer for carrying a concealed weapon in violation of his state laws because he's so afraid of some godless heathen robbing him of his precious money OR Maybe he secretly wants to be locked up with Bruno the Buttfucker? > On Nov 16, 11:04 am, "Dr H@l0nf1r£$" > <sha...@NOSPAM.kustomkomputa.co.uk.invalid> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > OR > Maybe he secretly wants to be locked up with Bruno the Buttfucker? It's a shame it's not a crime in Il to be a fuckwit - Or Dimwit would be serving a multiple life sentance. They all plonked you as DaveinLakeVilla so you appear as IbeDavid. This is > > DaveinLakeVilla on his new laptop; and it won't be long before the ingrate > > starts trolling his fundamentalist stupidity under this identity.. [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > He'll start using a different address every few days to get around > killfiles, but that's what trolls do Looks like three different one's just in this thread A Troll? You decide Mel > They all plonked you as DaveinLakeVilla so you appear as IbeDavid. > This is [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > > Looks like three different one's just in this thread http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=&num=10&scoring=r&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_ ugroup=&as_usubject=&as_uauthors=prof_neutrino1%40yahoo.com&lr=&as_drrb=q&as_qdr =&as_mind=1&as_minm=1&as_miny=1981&as_maxd=16&as_maxm=11&as_maxy=2007&safe=off I just decided. You are the 4th!! Plonk On Nov 16, 8:32 am, "Dr H@l0nf1r£$" <sha...@NOSPAM.kustomkomputa.co.uk.invalid> wrote: > > On Nov 15, 5:05 pm, "Peter Pan" <PeterPanNOS...@AkamailNOSPAM.com> > > wrote: [quoted text clipped - 41 lines] > > - Show quoted text - REPLY: Thank you Net-Nanny and faithful popular fanclub webstalker. And same to Ken the Net-Butler.lol.... > On Nov 16, 8:32 am, "Dr H@l0nf1r£$" > <sha...@NOSPAM.kustomkomputa.co.uk.invalid> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 49 lines] > REPLY: Thank you Net-Nanny and faithful popular fanclub webstalker. > And same to Ken the Net-Butler.lol.... OK Dimwit - You want to play dirty? Have it your own way then. - Watch this space. The evil fuckster's had the cheek to block me after helping him. Just to let you know Dimwit: All communiucations from your email addresses - all of them - will be deleted from server and replied to with a subscription to porn at the address that you attempt to contact me through. > On Nov 16, 8:32 am, "Dr H@l0nf1r£$" > <sha...@NOSPAM.kustomkomputa.co.uk.invalid> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 49 lines] > REPLY: Thank you Net-Nanny and faithful popular fanclub webstalker. > And same to Ken the Net-Butler.lol.... BTW note that the Dimwit troll's posting from Google; the troll's newsserver. Leonard Abbott's obviously told him that Google doesn't take you off their server for trolling. This wasn't anything to do with me so someone else must be helping him now, probably Labbotomy, as Dimwit doesn't have the intelligence to be able to work it out for himself. > Miles, I dont see an Amp on my Wineguard unless its put inside an > inaccessible place. Anyway, I thought id try an external Amp to see > if i could get a better picture on some of the channels. Need to > know what these specs mean ...or.. at least be able to know what is > considered better to purchase. Dave's gotta have a good picture when watching his teen-porn subscription channels. >> Motorola has one in Menards for $10 which is a 12 db unit. It has a >> bunch of specs on the back cover which im not at all familiar with. [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > Seems that a good share of new RV's come with Winegard antennas and > amps. They've worked well for me. Lots of older rv's had the roof antennas and power boosters inside.. Heck I had one on my 1978! At any rate, if you already have a roof antenna (amp inside + rooftop antenna), there are very few amps you can use, snce there is already one in the circuit Winegard makes the best line amps going. They put a directional coupler on the input to minimize reflections (ghosting) on the signal. To check if you have an amplifier up in the antenna housing see if you must supply DC power to the antenna via either the coax with a dc inserter or a separate power line to the antenna. Passive antennas have no power inputs, the power is for the amplifier. To much gain (amplification) will cause the amplifier to distort. The amplifier is best placed right at the antenna with as little coax cable as necessary on the input. Shop amplifiers on quality, not price. Not matter how little or much you spend on junk components the picture will still look like crap. Steve |
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