Winegard SS-2000 Square Shooter antenna is compact, light weight and optimized to receive HDTV signals up to 40 miles away from the broadcast tower with Height and Clearance. Perfect for Attic, Outdoor or Mobile Installation. Winegard’s newest digital antenna. A true technological break-through and Innovations award winner. It’s the Best designed, Best-built, Best performing, Best looking, Easiest to install, Urban/metropolitan HDTV antenna available. The SquareShooter™ solves problems no other antenna can solve. By far, the majority of the new antenna market today is directed at the Urban/Metropolitan locale. And the fastest growing sector of the market is in the Off-Air reception of HDTV broadcasts. The vast majority of these HDTV unit sales will be to these markets. The only current way to receive true HDTV resolution (1080i) is with an Off-Air antenna or satellite broadcast signals.
When I first heard of a Flat Panel TV antenna like this one from my wife, I thought she heard things all screwy like she normally does with Technology topics and told her "No Way!" Well, I was wrong... It is, and it works. The Factory has rated the CEA color code a little higher in their spec.s, but I don't think they took into consideration that more times than not, this antenna will not be located on the highest point of the roof or house, but rather, be located where it is convenient, or hidden from view. It favors the color and decor of the Winegard and DirecTV Dish mounts that everybody has, so it blends in real well. Matter of fact, it comes with hardware that can piggy-back it onto your existing Dish mount. Some folks that have Condo or HOA's to keep at bay like this antenna, as it blends in with the exterior of the premise where it's mounted and really doesn't look like an Antenna. If you can mount it higher, the better reception you will get. Even Attic installation will be preferable than hiding it behind stuff on the ground floor. This one is Amplified and really will out perform the the SS-1000 non-amplified unit a long as you're not within 10 miles of a transmitter. When you find products like these, you have to carry and promote them. Matter of Fact, Most, if not All of the Winegards are Made in the USA. Remember that!
Comes with J-Type Mast and Mount.
Includes J-mount; antenna has a 75 ohm coax connection
Includes hardware to mount to standard DIRECTV / DishNetwork dish masts (U-bolts and nuts are included to attach to dish antenna mast)
Average beamwidth: 61°
Average VSWR across band: 1.3:1
Average Front to back: 13 db
Average antenna gain across band 470-806: 4.5 db
Maximum Width: 16 x 16 x 4
Range for channels 14-69 15-40 mile average
Internal Built-in 12 dB gain Pre-amplifier
This antenna is primarily UHF, it may pick up VHF Ch 7-13 but it is engineered for UHF signals
Shipping Dimensions 22x16x7
Average shipping fee is $9.95
Winegard’s newest digital antenna. A true technological break-through and Innovations award winner. It’s the Best designed, Best-built, Best performing, Best looking, Easiest to install, Urban/metropolitan HDTV antenna available. An absolutely unique antenna with unlimited installation options. Fast and easy installation, Requiring no assembly. Because of its revolutionary design, it offers multiple mounting solutions for the best digital TV reception 15-40 miles out. Can be easily mounted using familiar DBS satellite antenna hardware, on Walls, Fascias, Roofs, Railings, Over a Satellite Dish, In the attic, On patios, Almost any place an installer needs to place it.
Remember that god reception is based on a combination of Clearance to view the Broadcast Transmitter (Line-of-Sight) and Height.
The latest DTV set-top boxes show significant improvements in receiving DTV signals, particularly with respect to multipath echoes that can in some cases prevent successful reception. However, antenna characteristics are still an important part of the whole system. While difficult DTV reception can often be overcome using high gain and directional Yagi, log-periodic, or multi-element bow tie antennas, these tend to be expensive, large and suitable only for outdoors or attic mounting. There continues to be a need for small antennas optimized for DTV reception in urban environments, where signal strengths may be good but multipath is frequently a problem.
At the Consumer Electronics Show this year the Winegard Company introduced a compact antenna specifically for DTV reception in urban locations but with the ability to receive signals over longer distances. The SS-2000 “SquareShooter™” design won a CES Innovations Award in the Design and Engineering Showcase. Winegard says that the SquareShooter utilizes non-traditional electromagnetic antenna design for superior performance and, at the same time, provides that new contemporary “look and feel” desired by DTV/HDTV consumers, and states that it will outperform all but the largest high-band VHF/UHF directional antenna systems.
The SS-2000 is specified as having an average gain of 4.5dB from 470–806 MHz with an average VSWR of 1.3:1. Its achieves these results in a compact design the antenna uses a “sinuous” element. This is based on earlier designs for military antennas, with element size and spacing adjusted for TV broadcast frequencies. Increased front-to-back ratio is obtained using a rear "scatter plane" to block signals from the back of the antenna. The good front-to-back ratio, absence of side lobes, and quite narrow acceptance angle should all contribute to excellent performance under multipath conditions. A key feature of the sinuous antenna is its equal sensitivity to signals of all polarizations – a technique suggested by others but not previously implemented in a consumer product. Field tests have shown that, as well as providing rejection of multipath echoes when receiving the main signal, the antenna allows reception in urban environments using a signal reflected from an adjacent building. The antenna has a built-in 12 db gain internal preamplifier.
The SquareShooter antenna element is produced using conductive ink that is screen-printed onto a polycarbonate base. The element is housed in an enclosure size 16” x 16” x 4” suitable for indoor or outdoor use, with a wide range of mounting options.
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