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Rick,

I had that same question when at Marathon – Dallas. They remove the bat wing and install the new style Wineguard, wire to your system. Some box needs to be added inside bus to make it work within your control pads.

We have been using the local Digital bat wing more often when we travel as different TV interest sometimes come up.

If we park where tree issues exist another option is available .

I’am having Marathon do the upgrade next visit which will produce more channel options.

AL

[Rick]

Fast Ricky,

I still use the ole batwing and have a converter, so HD over the air antenna is very good. I usually don’t have to raise the antenna only in rural areas. There are some nice Wineguard antenna’s that you can use to replace the badwing. Roadstar

Glad I could hep ya….

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As Tom says, no need to replace antenna. You just need a TV with an over the air tuner or use a stand alone over the air tuner. We are still using the old antenna, works great for us even without raising it

Gerald

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I do the same as Tom (The Mirror) Chilcote does.

Works very good.

[Dorel]

they make a bolt on for old batwing. I have one and have great reciption. Bolts to mask. Bob

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Bob – Need info on the bolt on antenna.

Rick -Converters are cheap, Walmart.

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we are using stationary Omniguard, works just fine. The Bat antenna is disabled

[Karl]

and have never activated the old Sat dome service. Eventually switched to Dish service but am cancelling that now because we hardly watch TV at all and when we do, it is usually a PPV movie on Amazon Prime which, unlike Dish, we can watch on our schedule, not theirs.

As regards local channels, I purchased one of these flat plastic panel interior HDTV antennas, which you can pick up in many places (think Amazon, for instance) for about $500 to $750 – Just make sure that it is a powered antenna, i.e. comes with a plug-in power supply). The powered antennas have better reception.

The drawback with these OTA (over the air) antennas is that you have to rescan channels in every new location to find out what is available.

But, as stated above, TV is unimportant to us and we take what we can get. Or, we pay for a PPV movie or, as Amazon Prime members, we do have access to literally thousands of FREE movies.

If all else fails, we do still have a BD/DVD. The last time we used it must have been 2 years ago.

Anyway, the point of this post is, that you do not necessarily have to buy the expensive Wingbat upgrade.

An inside mounted antenna will probably work just as well.

Cheers,

Ronald

safely parked in Sevierville’s Two Rivers Landing RV Resort.

[Peter]

We also have been using the powered indoor antenna for a while, and it works well, except here at Artesian RV park ten miles west of Brenham, we got nothing. But we did pick up some bootleg Blue Bell ice cream on the way to the FMCA meet in Conroe.

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I believe that Bob is referring to the wineguard wingman… @ $22, it seems an easy upgrade. It might be a bit more powerful

If it works while down, we can pick up local HD without having to stop and raise the wineguard dish for directv.