Completely Connected with Winegard's Air 360+ Gateway

For years, I roughed it out on the RV trail, with the old batwing style antenna. Which you had to crank up every time, move it this way, different towers and so forth. Now, a lot of your RV manufacturers have gone to the permanently mounted one, which Winegard also makes. We still have to do the directional one. Now Winegard has come up with a brand new antenna, the 360 plus, AIR 360 plus here.

And one of the things that's really neat about this is, it's got a Wi-Fi extender and a 4G product called, "The Gateway," which we're gonna show you here in just a minute. Most of your travel trailers, especially the fifth wheels the toy haulers, the bigger ones are actually putting the 360 plus as a standard item. And you'll see here that we have a lot of product that has it already on the top of it. So it's very easy to add the gateway. The advantage of this 360, and we've got a sample one here is that you've got your 360 degree antenna right here in the top of it.

Already incorporated into the dome. We don't have to take it up and put it down before we leave without breaking it. And these are the Wi-Fi extender pieces or cards in here and there's three of them positioned for this. Now this one's already up on the roof here. What is really nice about this product and what the manufacturers are doing, is they are putting a port on the ceiling already for this.

And if we look in this unit here, before we do that lemme just move this off to the side. We're gonna see a couple other things here that, we've got color-coded wires here that make it really easy to hook this gateway extender up. Which we'll do here in just a second. I'm gonna move this off to the side. Again that's up on the roof.

So here is the 4G LTE Wi-Fi router. It is a Wi-Fi extender at a campground. It is also then, if you have a Verizon or an AT&T, sim card, you can actually put that inside here or you can go and look at the 4G programs that are available through Winegard. And the nice thing about those is you can do them as needed. I don't have to do a one year contract.

I can do a one month, very affordable. So if I'm doing some boondocking and I need some connectivity, this is an easy way to do it and an inexpensive way to do it. So let's take a look at the router here, the product. And this you can find at any RV dealership that carries the Winegard product, the antennas and so forth. Just off the shelf, very easy to do.

So we've got our base plate right here which we're gonna pull out. And this is gonna go up on the ceiling. We're actually gonna line this hole up to the hole that's already there. That's been pre-drilled and the wires coming through it. And we'll show you that here in just a little bit.

And then it's just as simple as putting this, mounted into it. One of the things that you do see in the owner's manual that we went through it, that you can actually install this, I'll bring this back in here, in the antenna if you want to. And you'll see here where we've got the feet in here that match up. So I could actually install this right inside here. Talking with Winegard, they are eventually that is gonna go away just because of the thickness of the roof.

You want this inside your RV, so that you've got a good signal inside of it. Plus if you need to change the SIM card in it, you don't wanna crawl up on the roof and have to, you know, open this all up and do that. So, the preferred method is to put right up on the inside in the roof. And so we're gonna do that here. So if we look at this unit here we notice that right directly below our Winegard AIR 360 plus, they have installed a small little test disc basically or a locator for it.

So we're just gonna go up and take that off. So you can see we've got plenty of wire here. I pulled it all out. What we're gonna need to do is, we'll take this little zip tie off here first. So we have access to those without cutting a wire.

There we go. Just get that out of there. I'm not gonna need this 'cause we're gonna hook these up as well. I'm gonna shove that wire back up in there. This is our base plate, and this is the hole that is gonna go in with this.

And then their instructions is to have it facing forward. So feed these through here, these, through as well. Everything that come up and through that we need. Push all the rest back up, inside Nice and stagnum. Normally what you're gonna have, you see you've got a little bit of a ceiling here.

That's, you know, it's not a complete solid one but that's going to be a paneling in there and putting the three screws in there. We're gonna have enough of a connector that we don't have to worry about. This does not weigh much of anything. So once we put that up in here we can see that that will cover our hole. So we don't have to worry about something sticking out in the middle of nowhere.

So one of the things you want to make sure you do before you cut this wire is to either pull the battery cable negative side of the house battery off, or at least disconnect power to this, which you could do at the fuse panel or hitting the battery disconnect. We wanna make sure. 'Cause you do have a 12 volt system coming through here. So we're just going to cut this wire here and we're gonna wire nut these and splice them together. Some guys like to tape the connection up afterwards with some black tape.

And we may come back and do that as well with this but we're going to get this hooked up first and get that in. Make sure we got a good connection. We do. So we'll hold these in, push these all the way back up inside there. We don't have anything extra hanging down other than just the things we want.

There. So we'll straighten that out. Make sure that's in line. Put our remaining three screws in. And I'm not worried about the screws going up through into the wiring because on the other side of this we still have some insulation.

That's gonna be at least an inch and a half, sometimes up to three inches. And especially with this one where we've got the ducted roof here. So I know those wires are way up inside. I'm not gonna have any problems running a screw through those which, can happen in RVs. When you just put stuff in where you don't know what, what's behind it.

We're going to take our gateway right here. And we see that we have, the power's gonna go right in here. And then we have our different color codes. And there are one, two, three, four, five, and six. So the first thing we'll do is we'll put our power in and it only goes one direction.

So it's got the clip on the back side. Pops in like so So we put, the red goes to number two. We see on our diagram here. Our green goes to number five and our yellow goes to number four. So the red goes up to the far front one, number two, right here, and we just get it in.

Pops in, it clicks. Then we said, green goes down to number five. And that's this green one. Goes into number five. And yellow goes into number four.

Now, again, this is where our SIM card is gonna go in. Right in this slot in here. So if you have a Verizon or anything else you can, Verizon or AT&T, you can use that. This one we're going to have to keep, we're going to keep it in here with that. These tuck right inside here.

Find our slots and slide it. Forward or back. There we go, till it clicks. And that's it. It just goes nice and easy in there.

I'm already pre-wired. It just stays up. It looks nice with the rest of the ceiling in here. Now I got internet I got the booster Wi-Fi extender for the campground areas. I also have 4G capabilities with my 360.

So now I'm really roughing it. And I'm completely connected. The Winegard gateway with the 360, the AIR 360 plus. Find it at your local dealership that carries your Winegard product.