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 Worked as advertised August 28, 2010
C. Tidwell (Georgia)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It works. Picks up a station approximately 60 miles away & we are in a low area. I installed it outside & about 28' high.
 Good reception for deep fringe location August 24, 2010
J. Cook (Wisconsin)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I wanted to see if I could give up cable. I'm 50 miles from two major cities. I assembled the antenna in my living room and connected to my new digital TV. The short answer is YES. Now all I have to do is mount the antenna in my attic and run the cable. Everything I needed was in the box. Picture from antenna was MUCH better than cable. I was pleasantly surprised!
Works great! August 23, 2010
Royce Brown (Acworth, Ga United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have a cabin in the North Georgia mountains atleast 70 miles North of Atlanta and atleast that far away from Chattanooga, TN. Tired of paying Dish Network for tv we rarely watch I canceled and bought this antenna. Could not be happier. Pointing toward Chattanooga I was able to pick up 21 channels! The four main channels (ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox) are in HD that the picture quality is atleast as good as Dish Network. Of course several of the channels are the Spanish channels and 3-4 PBS channels. I am very happy with the quality and ease of setup.
Best antenna I ever owned!!! August 7, 2010
Tom
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Best antenna I ever owned!!! I am located on a hill (elev. 1150') app. 20 mi. NNE of Youngstown. Here is what I get with it: All Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Erie and Youngstown stations within a 65 mile radius WPSU Clearfield, Pa. 110 mi. But what is really great is that on cloudy nights I sometimes get: WBNS, WOSU, WCMH in Columbus, 158 mi. from my house. Once I had also got: WWHO Chillicothe, Oh. 178 mi. ; But the mind blower was briefly getting WSTR, WBDT from Cincinnati, Oh. 258 mi. away.
Here are the steps that got me to that point:
1. Replaced my old 13' VHF-UHF antenna with the Clearstream 4. (I tried the antenna without an amplifier but only got fair results.)
2. Replaced my old rotor with an RCA (VH126N) programmable rotor from Lowes. No more jumping up and down to change the antenna location.
3. Replaced my old amplifier with a Channel Master CM 7777 which was D.O.A. and promptly returned. Then went to Radio Shack and got their 15-321 antenna-mounted high gain signal amplifier, which worked perfectly.
4. Replaced the RG 59 lead in with RG 6 to match the RG 6 in the house.
5. Added 5' of height to my antenna (it was only 5' above the peak of my roof and is now 10' above).
I used to get a lot of signal loss on WUAB (43.1,2) and other Clev. and Pitt stations in the daytime, but so far I get no daytime signal loss on channels within the 65 mi. range. My main TV is 125' from the antenna. It is now in the shop for repair and I am using an old analog TV with a Zenith (DDT 901) tuner. Which is actually a better tuner than is in my 8 year old Sony. The Radio Shack Amplifier is very good as it has 2 output hookups. This helps when you have more than 1 TV. I have 4 and can dedicate one line to my main TV which is furthest from the antenna, thereby eliminating signal loss when the signal is split.
Amazingly Surprised by How Clear Everything Is August 6, 2010
John Veneruso (Vancouver, WA USA)
I live in Vancouver, Washington, about 21 miles from the Digital Antenna transmitter farm in Portland, Oregon, with some minor hills between me and the farm. I originally tried an indoor Terk HDTVa amplified indoor antenna, which said it should work given my distance from the farm. Yet I experienced very poor reception of the major broadcaster's channels. Even when things were as good as they got, my TiVo HD box would show a paltry 60 signal strength (out of 100).
I decided to step it up a notch and try the Clearstream4 antenna and place it in my attic. The antenna strength websites said that I was in the blue reception zone, so it fit my need. It is ruggedly made (great for outdoor installation) and pulls in both VHF and UHF signals. Installation was simple and was completed in about 10 minutes...a small number of hand-turn screws and Philips screws. I mounted it with nothing more than tie-wraps to the attic's 2x4's at the end of 25 feet of basic RCA RG6 coax threaded through the ceiling to my TiVo. The signal was exceptionally strong for most channels but not ideal for a few higher band UHF channels. I took a closer look at my attic and realized that I had placed the antenna in a poor location. A diagonal metal venting pipe rose through the attic about 20 feet between my antenna and the transmitter farm. My web research noted that DTV is very susceptible to multipath distortion from metal pipes, metal sheeting, and big trees. I relocated the antenna close to the attic wall that is as close to the transmitter farm as possible with another 50 feet of coax. The results are impressive across all the channels with most registering 80-90 signal strength and several showing above 95 in a very stable fashion. And this is even with the signal loss you get with 75 feet of coax and no powered amplifier. I now get all of the channels in the Portland Metro area and the TiVo HD box records such a blizzard of shows that there's always something to watch for me and the kids. I just wish that one of my local broadcasters would carry Country Music Television and the latest Sponge Bob episodes for my kids....but it's a small price to pay for zeroing out my cable TV bill. I highly recommend the Clearstream4 antenna.
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