Cleaning Glomex Antennae

[Tonka Boater]

In Central FL, the glomex is awesome. I get over 60 channels when on the hook and will be watching the Masters in Hi Def from my cockpit TV

Same here in the Twin Cities. My reception and picture quality is great. I think it works great all things considered.
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[Voldad]

With the Glomex gain maxed out – I get 12 channels in the marina. I was impressed since my previous boat I couldn’t get a single channel. But my Glomex also looks rough – 409 wouldn’t even touch it. I’ll investigate getting mine replaced with a nice new shiny one.

 

[skolbe]

The antenna - is a UHF antenna. It works great for Digital Channels that are UHF - 75% of the new digital channels. The DTV conversion was great for boaters and the Glomex.

 

[wetpaint]

just played with mine again while i waited for 80 gallons to drain out my faucet (commissioning fresh water tank) and just snow..........oh well I will just have to get a 22 mile long cable to keep the TV clear......Here is a thought......The kids can't watch TV......Naaaaa....they will call DSS

 

[Voldad]

How far are you from the TV towers? Are you sure you are turning the gain up - mine has a red LED that says when it has power. Are you sure your TV has a digital tuner (the old 2-13 is gone). Have you let the TV auto program so it'll look for analog (although there are none) and digital stations.

 

[Skuza]

I thought we were tking about the ship to shore antenna!
Will they warranty the thing if it's simply weathered? I'm shocked/ impressed there's companies out there that stand behind their products. Especially boat stuff !
For cleaning I removed ours when it was black looking and sprayed it with Clorox. Let it sit and repeated a couple times it came out nice.

 

[Dasch Boat]

I thought we were tking about the ship to shore antenna!
Will they warranty the thing if it's simply weathered? I'm shocked/ impressed there's companies out there that stand behind their products. Especially boat stuff !
For cleaning I removed ours when it was black looking and sprayed it with Clorox. Let it sit and repeated a couple times it came out nice.

Haven't looked looked into the removal procedure yet, how difficult / easy is it to remove, other than setting up a scaffold to get to it ?

 

[trit21]

If you are getting snow, then your TV is not set to digital (I think). When my TV does not receive a channel I get a blue screen telling me to signal or searching for signal. I have never got snow on a digital TV using a digital antenna. Something sounds like it may not be set up correctly in the TV. MAYBE....

 

[npcrx]

just played with mine again while i waited for 80 gallons to drain out my faucet (commissioning fresh water tank) and just snow..........oh well I will just have to get a 22 mile long cable to keep the TV clear......Here is a thought......The kids can't watch TV......Naaaaa....they will call DSS

Have you run the digital setup scan on each tv set? It takes quite a while to run through all the channels, but that's all I had to do once the glomax was plugged into the antennae slot.

 

[Skuza]

Haven't looked looked into the removal procedure yet, how difficult / easy is it to remove, other than setting up a scaffold to get to it ?

If its the same model as ours its simple once you scale the arch. I can stand on the bow rail and lean my chest against the arch and get to it. To get it off you unscrew the coax cable(the hardest part) and then the whole "saucer" just unscrews off the mounting pole. Careful when you put it back on that you don't start cross-threading the plastic antenna onto the stainless pole threads.

 

[Nacho Boat]

I also get good reception with my Glomex. The reception improved tremendously when I switched to a digital TV tuner. The amp must be powered and ON.

As far as cleaning goes, I used a Mr Clean Magic Eraser. It cleaned up my frisbee really well. The Magic Eraser is one of my favorite cleaning tricks.