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Bye Bye Batwing Antenna
I hated the old Concord antenna, never knew if it would raise, lower or turn and it had a mind of it’s own. So, off with the old and on with the new Winegard Razor. Easy fix once you remove all the batwing junk and you just reuse the single coax already in place. Backed the bus outside and got 22 stations, even as rural as Polk City, FL is located and most in HD. Total cost about 300 bucks.
Sent to the junk pile.
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Had to make a plate to cover the original installation.
Actually picked up 2 stations while in garage.
This replaced the original batwing controller.
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Tell us how it works out. Thinking about replacing the old wing on mine.
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It’s great Glens, you just let it search and your good to go. You can also run your cable TV connection to the controller, which I did, and all you do is turn off the controller and it passes your cable TV through.
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Ditto
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What material did you use to make the base plate?
Also, does the new controller replace the electronic’s box “raising/lowering” the old antenna without any additional wires or connectors?
By the way, you must have had Jon down to your place to wax & shine your roof!
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Stopping at Jeff’s next week for the same antenna treatment.
Did your roof come like that? Or did you slyather some special fancy white stuff on it??
How many stations would you get before?
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Tim,
The new controller that comes with the Razor is a direct replacement for the batwing controller. All it needs is 12v and your coax cables and you’re up and running. I didn’t do a plate to mount the antenna. I made a metal cover to cover the Marathon hole, screwed, siliconed the holes and then self leveling caulk. Marathon screwed the batwing directly to the roof, so I mounted the Razor the same way, it has 3 feet so you can position it anyway you want. It only weighs 4 lbs.
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Installed it myself in early March. Made a cover plate out of 1/16″ aluminum for the opening that Liberty made for the original antenna. Ran a couple beeds of caulk around the perimeter of the plate, around each screw hole, and around and on top of each screw after install.
Put the Razor directly on the roof forward of the cover plate with self tapping screws and caulk below and above the mounting hardware. The original coax was used in place, no new or rerouting of this. The roof antenna gets voltage through the coax, so there is no other wire for voltage. It was an easy install, it does a good job of auto searching and finding, and is user friendly. Cannot compare performance to the oem one, never used it. -
The roof antenna gets voltage through the coax
Now that’s interesting. I never realized that was possible.
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It’s not new. Some years ago I also installed a new satellite receiver with the same set up for voltage.
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That really looks good Truk and I think you have directed me to my next project. Best part has to be using the existing wiring.
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Come on Tom, fess up, we all know you forgot to put the old bat wing down when you pulled in the garage so you had to get a new one.
When is the painter comming to fix the facia boards on the roof.
Jeff and Lindsay
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We did the same a month ago… easy replacement for the old Concord !! Picked up NO channels with it at Catherine’s Landing in Hot Springs… hope its better in other places. Will put it to the test next weekend.
Mine is installed in the lower part of the rear roof where the Concord was and I wonder if it may be too low… but like I said I will test it next weekend.. I only get a few channels with it here in Lufkin but I think that is to be expected.
Will post results next weekend.
Cheers, Diane
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Thanks Truk. My next project will start soon.
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You’ve been hanging around too long in Vonore Buddy, are you on commission now?
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Nice try Buddy, as you can see in the first picture, the batwing was in perfect condition. You’ve been hanging around Vonore way to long, are you now on commission?
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