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 Digital antenna that works March 6, 2010
Michael B. Brush (Boise, ID USA)
Needed a digital antenna that had a wide angle of reception and would pick up a signal through a large tree. This is the third antenna of this kind I've purchased. The singles are compact outside antenna. The doubles are larger but still smaller than the old VHF antenna. Highly recommend this antenna for digital reception.
Excellent Antenna March 6, 2010
C. Garza (Houston, TX United States)
Trying to cut some of our bills we decided to take the plunge and cancel our cable subscription. We have a 50" Samsung plasma tv and had the cable with the HD box. It looked good...so when we decided to cut the cable I thought the tv would "go to waste" because the over the air channels would look grainy and dim. After reading some reviews I decided to purchase this antenna (DB4) over the DB2 because we have another tv upstairs I wanted to hook up as well. Well the antenna arrived extremely fast, like in a day or two...even before my cable was cut! Once the cable was finally cut I put the antenna together (took about 10 minutes) not too hard but the picture/directions could be a little better, I then proceed to go into my attic, look for the cable line going to my tv and connected it to the antenna. Pretty easy. I did not purchase the antenna holder/pole so I placed the antenna over some boxes we have in the attic just to get an idea of what it would look like. I did not place it in a particular direction, I figured I could tweak it after seeing the initial reception. I then ran downstairs, turned on the tv, held my breath (did a new channel scan) and lo and behold all my local channels showed up looking TERRIFIC! No delays, no grainy dim looking pictures but very bright, HD channels. I have to say some look nicer (brighter colors, clearer picture) than my HD cable channels did. Of course all channels now have 2-3 more channels i.e. channel 13, channel 13-2, 13-3 etc.. the best looking ones are the "main" channels i.e 2, 13, 11 etc.. (we are in the Houston, TX market). So overall we are VERY PLEASED with this antenna. We have a 2 story house in a typical neighborhood so if your situation is like ours and you are contemplating purchasing this antenna you will not be dissapointed!
On a side note...my father purchased the DB2 for a small 32" LCD he has after hearing about my rave reviews and his tv also looks great. He put his on top of the bookcase behind a decorative plant and it worked like a charm. He had gone through a good many antenna before this one but this one looks like a keeper.
 Good Antenna March 1, 2010
Philip K. Fong (Palo Alto,CA)
I'm in Palo Alto,CA (about 38 miles south of San Francisco),and I bought this on the advice of a co-worker to prepare for the digital transition. I was looking for something to install in the attic. At first the results weren't good,but after moving the antenna as far as I could towards the front of the house, the results were pretty good (there is a 2-story house next door to my 1-story house, and it is in the path of where I needed to aim my antenna). I now get all the stations broadcasting from Sutro Tower except for channel 7. Inexplicably channel 7 went from UHF (this antenna is UHF only) to VHF some months after the transition date. I can receive about 70 channels (if you include the sub-channels). For cheap people (like me), I also built the "coat-hanger" antenna found in You-tube. It looks very much like the DB4 but without the reflectors, and it works almost as well. I have 2 TVs; one runs off the DB4 and one off the "coat hanger" antenna.
 Not as good as homemade February 28, 2010
J. Peasley (MI, USA)
I bought this to replace a homemade antenna, as found on YouTube. The YouTube antenna received 10 channels and this only picked up 2. Not worth it, if copper wire screwed to a board works better.
good reception to DTV signals February 20, 2010
Mark Tweeny
It worked out of box. I put it in the attic. Good reception to the DTV signals from stations within 10 miles.
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