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 Really improved my reception!!! March 1, 2010
Walnutgrower (Nothern California)
This amplifier greatly improved my TV reception. I have a very tall antenna about 70ft from the ground overall and still had trouble getting more than a handfull of stations. Sometimes even those handfull of stations would not be available when the weather got bad. Now I always get those stations and many more. I live about 50 miles from the nearest transmitter so this amplifier is ideal for my situation. I also get stations that I thought I never would get. They usually only come in during the day, but they are at least 100 miles away over the mountains and I do not even have the antenna turned in their direction. I have not experimented yet to find out if I can get even more stations by turning the rotor, but I am sure that I can. By the way, I did not follow the directions yet of putting the amplifier within 6 feet of the antenna and I am sure this will help also. My new amplifier is about 100 ft from the antenna. I think I will wait until the weather is ideal before I climb my tower.
Amplifier works great, more channels & better picture February 10, 2010
John R. Langdon (CHINO VALLEY, AZ)
Amplifier works great, more channels, better picture and higher signal displays on digital display on each channel.
Anthem, AZ
Works great! January 21, 2010
humdec (South Bend, IN)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I live about 70 miles from Chicago and this amp added to a DB8 antenna (in my attic) gets me ABC, NBC, CW, PBS, FOX, UPN, ION, TELEMUNDO, UNIVISION, and a few more, all in HD with over 85 percent signal strength. No CBS tho. That added to local South Bend area (with local CBS), I get between 38-42 digital channels. Most in HD.
When I first installed this Winegard amp, I lost a couple of local channels and had a total of only 12, some with low signal strength. It was disappointing because I read that happened to another reviewer who rated the amp 1 star. However I checked all my self installed RG6 twist-on connectors, some were not making contact with the braid wires of the coax. I was cutting them off with the crimper tool... daaah! I love these twist-on connectors because you can reuse them over and over.
The manual says to install aditional in-line amplifiers to each receiver set if a splitter is used. But I had no need for that. The antenna and amp are installed in my attic (2 story house), down connected to a 4 way 5-1000 Mhz recommended splitter, then from the splitter there is a run about 20 feet RG6 coax to my bedroom Panasonic LCD, and about 35' to the Samsung LCD in my family room (the Samsung gets a few more channels than the Panasonic)
I also have 2 Digital Stream converter boxes that Obama paid for. I love these and will review them later with 5 well deserved stars.
 Don't mount it outside! January 14, 2010
John D. Judge
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Winegard wants you to mount this within 6 feet of your antenna, if yours is inside great. Otherwise don't buy this product. It is not weather tight, it has several holes in it. When moisture gets in and it corrodes they blame you for installing it improperly. Nice. Save $50's and buy something else, maybe 50 lottery tickets, at least you have a chance of winning there.
 Does the job. December 1, 2009
S. Krishna (U.S.A.)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Does a good job, however I would have preferred a different design. I did not want/ feel comfortable running a 115 volt a.c. line to the attic antenna. So right now I connected the Preamp to the antenna coax down stairs and then distributed the signal.
A better design would be, to have the d.c. volts from the a.c. adapter, be shot through the coax to the Preamp located at the antenna, and then have the signal signal come right back down the same coax. This would have been more convenient and resulted in even stronger signal.
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