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 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.
A good match for a Deep fringe antenna November 15, 2009
John McCarty (New Tripoli, PA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This preamp worked great when I mated it with a Winegard Deep fringe antenna. The mast mount is designed for a smaller mast than I used so I had to substitute a stainless steel hose clamp instead of using the supplied U bolt. My installation has several outputs so I needed the extra power of the preamp to distribute the signal throughout the property. I get very good signals from stations as far away as 65 miles.
No tiene caso October 5, 2009
Carlos Sonora (Agua Prieta, Sonora, Mexico)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
No vale la pena este preamplificador de todas formas tienes que estar dandole vulelta a la antena para que agarre los canales se suponia que tienes que poner en un angulo intermedio y con los aplificadores o booster obtendrias los canales pero no es asi no ayuda en nada solo es util la antena no es necesario el pre amp
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