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HOW TO FIT A… VISION PLUS TV ANTENNA

CUT OUT AND KEEP GUIDE!

AFTER I REWIRED the connectors and put them into the correct places when our caravan was new, we never really had any issues with the performance of the Status omnidirectional TV antenna. That was more than 20 years ago.

My parents owned that van for many years, and it became clear that the original antenna didn’t perform as well as the latest directional ones. So when Vision Plus offered me one of their Status 570s to fit, it was an opportunity too good to be missed.

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The caravan was a 1999 Abbey GTS 215, so I had concerns that I would be

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