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(More customer reviews)OK, got this on the roof now. Works great! All VHF channels coming in at 99 or 100% on the DISH strength meter vs. 65% to 75% on my indoor antenna! I'm between 46 and 50 miles from all the transmitters. Channels 8, 10, and 12 are perfect now. Channel 12 which was the weakest of the bunch is now the strongest. I could barely get it with in the indoor and had frequent picture drop out. Comes in strong and steady now. I have some intervening trees, but luckily I live on the front side of the high ground in my town so that makes me about 100 - 200 ft. above the low ground, plus the antenna is about 20 ft. off the ground. It took two of us about two hours to put up a mast, install a coax box on the wall, wire and aim two antennas (UHF and VHF). I didn't spend a lot of aiming this antenna just eyeballed it with compass in hand. The signals are so strong it's not worth going up and fine tuning the aiming.
It's VERY important to understand that this is High Band VHF antenna (only for "real" channels 7 - 13) and is not designed to pick UHF stations (14 - 69) or Low Band VHF (2 - 6)! You need different antennas for those. If you're not sure about what frequencies your stations are broadcasting on, do a web search for TVFOOL. All of my low band VHF stations moved to UHF during the digital conversion, so I only needed a VHF antenna for channels 8, 10, 12. Remember that some stations still use their old number in their name, but have switched to a different frequency. So, channel 6 might actually be broadcasting in UHF now. Use the "real" frequency from TVFOOL to figure out if this antenna will help you, not the channel number.
OK, now for the bad stuff. The directors are installed with brittle plastic clips that need to snapped into place when you assemble the antenna. I think this is a poor design choice. I broke one of the clips when I was snapping it into place! A little epoxy glue fixed the problem. The additional instructions in the packing slip warn you to make sure the antenna is warmed up to room temperature before you snap the directors/reflectors into place. This is absolutely critical! Still it's easy to break them if you're not careful. That's why I knocked off one point on my review. The construction itself seems to be OK, although I probably would have built it stronger if I was the designer. You could easily beef this up with some more screws and glue in various places. This antenna isn't too wide and the elements are all chrome plated and plastic so I imagine it will hold up OK in the wind and rain. If something were to break it would be easy to fix with some glue.
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