Philips SDV4400/27 Installing your antenna, B Warning, DNote, Unfolding the Antenna Elements

		Slide the spade terminal ends around
3 Installing your antenna	2
		the antenna’s lead-in terminals marked
		CONNECT LEAD-IN HERE. Secure them
B Warning		with the supplied flat washers and large
Installation of this product is dangerous. For		wing nuts. 2
your safety, follow the installation directions.

3 Screw the cable’s F-connector onto

3.1 Mast Clamp Assemblythe matching transformer.Then slip the weatherboot over the connection. 2

1Use the supplied hardware to loosely attach

the U-bolt and lock nuts to the mast clamp			Spade Terminal Ends	2
assembly on the main boom as shown. 1				Lead-in
			Plastic Strain-Relief Tab	Terminals
U-Bolt		1
	Mast Clamp		F-Connector
				Matching Transformer
			Weather Boot	Flat Washers
Main Boom			Coax Cable	Large Wing Nuts

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Backup Plate Lock Nuts

DNote

To access the mast clamp holes, move the antenna’s elements out of the way as needed.

2Press the supplied large end plugs into the main boom.

3.2Connecting Lead-In Cable to the Antenna

DNote

If you prepare your own cable, slide the supplied matching transformer’s weather boot onto the cable before you attach the F-connector.

ETip

We recommend RG-6 cable, and if you prepare your own cable, use a quality F-connector.

1Thread the supplied matching transformer’s spade terminal ends through the antenna’s strain-relief tab.

DNote

If you use a cable without a weatherboot, cover the connection with weatherproof tape.

3.3 Unfolding the Antenna Elements

1Hold each UHF wing boom and turn its elements until they snap squarely into place (perpendicular to the boom).

2Press the supplied small end plugs into the ends of the wing booms.

3Bolt the triangular wing boom brackets onto the main boom using the supplied 1½-inch screw and small wing nut, as shown. 3

Wing Boom		3
	1 1/2	Inch
Brackets
	Screw

Main Boom

Small Wing Nut