Winegard antenna RS-1500

April 06, 2015, 12:39:42 am

Here we go again. One more question for this great group. Our paperwork says we have a Winegard omnidirectional antenna in our 2004 Allure. I only have the installation paperwork. Do we have to do anything to use the antenna? Turn on a power supply somewhere? I have set the black box to tv/ant. We had a black box in our old fifth wheel so am familiar with how it works.
Also last night our crime stopper alarm went off at 2:00 am. We found out fr this forum about the switch under the dash. We thought maybe the cat set off the alarm but upon checking the switch this morning it was on the door setting. Any ideas on why might have gone off. It went a second time so we didn't use it last night.

Re: Winegard antenna RS-1500

Reply #1 – April 07, 2015, 07:56:54 pm

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I called the antenna our "Enterprise Antenna", as it looked like the ship Enterprise:)! It was made in the days of pre all digital. We just had ours replaced with the new Winegard Auto Razr(SP?). It's a one button bush, and it does a full 360 sweep and locks in on the best possible direction for the maximum number of OTA channels. You can also adjust it afterwards, if you wish to move it towards other channels. It is reported to not have quite same range as the manual crank up antennas, say the Sensar IV, but is so far doing well for us.

We also installed the manual crank up Sensar IV, set up A/B to allow me to change over to the manual one if we are in a fringe coverage area. But, I added the crank up mostly to mount a Omni WiFiRange Boost (now called Mobile) antenna. Getting it up off the roof, and then down horizontal with he roof when traveling.

I like the DW friendly Winegard Auto, a bit pricey - but again, is working well for us.

Best of luck,

Smitty

04 Allure 31017

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