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 Worthless March 10, 2010
Zargon2010
This antenna was worthless as an indoor digital antenna. I live in an urban area of the city, not that far from the transmitters, but this antenna would not pick up anything when used indoors. I finally mounted it on my patio outdoors, and it sort of worked. At least I could get some stations some of the time, if that's working!
 Great Antenna March 7, 2010
G. Johnson (Austin, TX)
I do not, if ever, feel compelled to write a review, but in this instance, I must. I was leary of dropping my expensive cable and going to an over-the-air antenna. There is not an instrument known to man that would be able to measure my trepidation. But I have to admit the ease of the install and the immediate clarity was unbelieveable. In fact, the oldest daughter came over to the house and asked, "I thought you dropped cable service?" "We did, this is from the antenna." "Wow, that's a clear picture!" Again, the install was vey easy and the immediate satisfaction was a relief to all my worrying.
No better than rabbit ears March 6, 2010
G. L. Munn (Chesapeake, VA USA)
I live in an area with flat terrain and the local television transmitters are within 15 miles of my home. I was getting mediocre reception of digital stations with an old pair of rabbit ears, so I expected this amplified, digital antenna to be a significant improvement. It was not. Audio and video are still broken up on several local stations requiring a lot of repositioning of the antenna. That is not practical, if you had any plans to use this as a wall-mounted antenna. But if not wall-mounted, this 9 x 9 piece of plastic takes up more table space than you would want it to. A steel "stand" is included to prop it up at a 20-degree angle from horizontal, but that is hardly an improvement. My advice, look for something else!
Don't waste your money March 3, 2010
Rob Shultz
This antenna is not worth the money I wasted on it. I live in the bottom apartment of my building which sits under ground to a degree. I've been using a jerry rigged set up with an antenna extended across the floor with multiple cables and it's a hazard with the constant threat of tripping. SO when I read the reviews for this antenna I thought it would be a good way to end the mess and just have a little tv at night. Wrong, I pick up all of two whole channels and that's it. And the worst part is that i can't even return it because i've already opened the box and used this worthless product.
Worthless junk outperformed by rabbit ears February 28, 2010
Matt McCann (Cincinnati, OH)
I haven't used OTA broadcast television in a long time. I'm a TV addict and have had cable or satellite TV for as long as I can remember. I wanted to put a TV in the guest room though, and this one was just going to pick up OTA. I wasn't going to pay for another tuner box for a room we just don't use.
I hadn't seen any OTA HD yet, but I had heard that it was better than I'm getting with DirecTV, plus I was excited to hear that my neighbors were picking up 15 channels.
I live about 30 miles from the main towers. the ABC channel here is in the Hi-VHF band. the rest are UHF. The TV is on the 2nd floor, there is just plastic siding on the house, and I'm not down in a valley, so I had high hopes that I could get away with an indoor antenna. But no matter where I placed this antenna, I had to move it around to get one channel in, then another would go spotty - and it wouldn't even touch the ABC signal (VHF) at all.
Out of curiosity I slapped a $5 set of rabbit ears with a UHF loop - you've seen this antenna before, straight out of 1957 - and now I get the VHF station perfectly, and the UHF stations are about the same as with this RCA amplified shingle. I ended up finding instructions on Youtube on making your own antenna out of coat hangers and a piece of wood. If you need VHF too, look for the improved version with 10" whiskers. My $10 DIY construction project kicks this antenna's butt.
I took it apart to see what's inside. Maybe a dollar's worth of circuit board. It isn't even a fractal design. Save your money!
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