Off-Air HDTV antenna

[sowen010599]

Recommend one??

[polkatese]

http://www.channelmaster.com/home.htm

Lowe has a good selection of these. It works great on mine.

[Toxis]

http://www.terk.com/pdfs/T0428-HDTVi-LK.pdf

Works great! Had many praises on this from customers...

[sowen010599]

That the one I was looking at but couldn't find anybody who could say whether it sucked or not. hehe

I want to put one up that looks like a WWII radar installation. 'bout 60' wide. Some of them kind of look like that though. My neighbors already hate me and think I'm nuts. I'll tell them it's part of my ICBM early warning and defense system.

[HBombToo]

I went with the omni from Channel Master and it cleard up all my margin problems.

NO issues with the order through hook up.

I receive every digital broadcast antenna in the KC area. WB gets funky but I think their having instability issues.

HBomb

[HBombToo]

the link did not work so here is a pic.

[wallstreet]

All the local pro's are installing winegards.

[reeltrouble1]

Does, anybody know the range of these antenna's. I live about 60 mi from the broadcast stations in either direction from me, not sure if you can get an HD from that far away.

RT1

[sowen010599]

The FCC imposes limits on transmitting power with the intended reachable distance of 60 miles. Funny that you are right on the dot. If you live in an incredibly flat area, you might, MIGHT, get it.

You should probably get with a professional installer.

[sowen010599]

Tried the Terk, tried all the Terk's, they all suck. The set-top one is "ok" for VHF, but no HD reception to speak of. Tried the "brick-looking" Terks. They are like negative antennas. I got better reception without the cable connected. Tried the radio shack 15-1880, I think it was defective because I got nothing, not even decent VHF. I tried a medium omni. It worked pretty good. I got everything except ABC (60 miles out).

So.......after all these antennas, what did I learn. 99% of them suck and are basically useless. It may be because my home is brick, I hear UHF doesn't like that.

After all this crap, I reverted to my motto, go big or go home. I got the biggest antenna Channel Master makes, the Cross-Fire 3671. At nearly 15' long, it's definitely big. It's mounted outside, off the roof, with a 10' mast. That puts it at about 40'. My house was already wired for cable, then re-wired with new cable for sat. So I installed a big amp, like 8 ports, and used all the existing cable wiring.

Now I get everything, even ABC in HD from a station in another city. I am getting FM radio stations out of Dallas/Ft. Worth, 120 miles out.

Sweet! Go big or go home! Man it feels good to trash the rabbit ears.

[fireshoes]

Nice going man. That's cool that you found one that works. Terk is suck.

[dkinlaw]

The winegard SquareShooter works great, I get all the local stations in Orlando in HD still can't beleive it works so well

DanaK.

[polkatese]

Channel Master to the rescue, again! :D Congrats!

I installed mine in the attic, two local broadcasts, NBC and CBS are now available on DTV, so, I am waiting for ABC which has the weakest transmission power (and the one I am not getting with the antenna) to be available on DTV. One ironic fact, I spent less money with CM then if I had gone with fancy Terk.