Have you upgraded your Antennatek Commander/Winegard Antenna with Winegard Retrofit Kit?

Goldfinger · Senior Member

Have you upgraded your Antennatek Commander/Winegard Antenna with Winegard Retrofit Kit?

PeterInSa · Guru

Re ( Has anyone carried out this 'upgrade'..and did it improve signals?...at $259 best price on Ebay,I would like to know if it is worth the expense...and the 'risk' involved with me working up there....is it difficult to fit?.. and particularly to connect the coaxial cable at the roof cap connection?.)

Have done the upgrade sometime ago. Purchased the upgrade kit at a Caravan and Camping show for $150 soon after they became available. Still have the old Wing model just in case.

I think the hardware is easy to replace, one pole support rather than 2,(like the original uses Long Rivets and Cir-clips, from memory) BUT.... Because only one pole/support this pole does not fit into the V that stops the aerial moving around the roof, when laid down for travelling, so a section of similar size AL tube needs to be screwed on the the single pole/support to stop this happening.

Re the cable, have seen some setups that have the cable coming thru the roof with no join right up the the aerial connection on the wing. Others that have a connection on the roof and a 1m cable between this connection and the aerial connection, to me if your cable is OK should be able to just connect to the Sensar HV. or if cable not OK replace with another 1m cable with connections, or put a connection on the damaged cable and a join cable.

Peter.

-- Edited by PeterInSa on Saturday 2nd of September 2017 11:39:50 AM

-- Edited by PeterInSa on Saturday 2nd of September 2017 11:40:51 AM

PeterD · Guru

Goldfinger wrote:
Q: Has anyone carried out this 'upgrade'..and did it improve signals?...at $259 best price on Ebay,I would like to know if it is worth the expense...and the 'risk' involved with me working up there..

I see you can now get a complete unit from CaravansPlus for $251. It is an improved model with an "8 element Log Periodic Dipole Array (LDPA) for highest quality HDT." This will beat the performance of the old single element wing. See Antennatek LPDA200 HDTV Antenna - Complete Kit

Big Mal · Senior Member

Replacing the cable with cable and fitting fom Bunnings is easy enough but if you want to upgrade and improve your aerial I would bite the bullet and buy a Winegard Snow Flake or a Saturn, then you will be able to pick up any signal thats available, horizontal or vertical transmission, most of the others just do horizontal unless thevertical is very close.