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Old 01-21-2018, 08:25 AM   #12
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Older Airstream trailers had a Channel Master antenna mounted to the front of the trailer wall/A frame. It was a "foldable model" that stored against the front wall of the trailer for travel and "folded up" to extend above the trailer when in use. When unfolded, it was about 8' long and about 5' wide and sat on a pole that was about 6' above the trailer roof. That antenna was markedly better at pulling fringe stations than the "bat-wing roll-up" antenna that replaced it. Even with the "high tech" (for the 80's) electronic head, the batwing just doesn't work as well as the "mass of the big Channel Master". Now the Omni-directional roof mounted antenna is beginning to replace the "stepdown bat-wing" that replaced the Channel Master.

My guess is that as more and more of us go to satellite TV systems in our RV, the TV antenna will become as scarce on RV's as it is on house rooftops in "suburbia"......

Time was when everyone had an antenna on the roof, now, it's either a "cable entry" or a "satellite dish".... Gone (for the most part) is that big old aluminum gadget on the tall pole beside the chimney.
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