Five Star Yagi HD TV Antenna, 200 Mile

Works very well in my remote location.

Recomiendo ampliamente ésta antena, da buena calidad de imagen en HD, es muy fácil de armar e instalar y a buen precio, que diría en cuanto al servicio de envío excelente y de amazon también, 100 % recomendado el producto.

Easy to install works great

This antenna is absolutely amazing from a real person here that lives about 60 miles from my favorite American channels out in the county near windsor ontario canada. I have tried several over the years and nothing but poor signal especially in a hint of rain or overcast days and even at night when signals are lowered by stations. Well thus antenna has been flawless in some pretty big huge storms although I haven’t experienced snow fall yet so we will see…yet I have high hopes so far as again this has been a great antenna so far. No more adjustments constantly of last few I have tried.
***Well after some major wind and snow storms this past winter…I am absolutely amazed with this antenna. This was so well worth the purchase finally after many years of trying expensive ones and gimmicky antennas. This truly works and this review is from a very real non biased canadian man. There is good distance from me in the county off the lake so I do get more extreme weather conditions because of lake effects to American TV stations towers and again this antenna honestly rocked in all these conditions with rarely.. and I mean rarely a disruption ever. Anyone that had an issue either got a defective one or like I’ve had before with lg tvs kind of like a reverse polarity and actually caused the issues in line with all other tvs. Weird but true since I replaced that lg tv every tv (8 of them ) all on this one antenna with one booster works great. So maybe it’s the actual tv causing issues as well of a bad line or need a proper booster as all boosters are not alike either with power and non power that can also cause problems. It took awhile to figure out just one of my tvs was the problem in stream and also one of the power boosters after went bad like every 2 years

First of all, this is a good yagi TV antenna – and especially good for the price. Design and engineering of a yagi-style TV antenna is well understood. This antenna is manufactured in China and maybe engineered there also. The tech specifications are very good (8db gain for VHF; 12db gain for UHF) and reasonable for this size yagi with this number of elements.

Note that this is a high VHF and UHF antenna – it will not work well on transmission channels 2-6 (low VHF) even though the tech specs seem to indicate that it will. Low VHF antennas usually have an easily noted 3+ft long element on the back and today are not common because very few stations transmit on low VHF. If you need a low VHF antenna, look for the long element and a specific mention of low and high VHF in the description. Note that if your TV station says Channel 2 this usually does NOT correspond to transmission channel 2. Check your location’s broadcast-transmission frequencies to determine if you need a low VHF antenna.

Assembly instructions are nearly adequate. But assembly is pretty easy to figure out just from the photos. Amazon’s on-line photos are better than those in the assembly papers.

Antenna wire simply comes off the bottom of the antenna. Nice watertight shield here with a (you might miss it) metal ring on the cable to clamp the boot to the cable so that it does not drop down. Be sure to let the cable droop away from the antenna and anchor to the pole. I did not see a good way to attach the cable to the antenna boom without causing some signal interference. Amazon has a splitter and some clips for a bundle for about $10 more. But the base unbundled antenna does include 50ft of RG6 cable. Nice.

Although this is a good antenna, the advertising specs are absurd.
*200+ miles: maybe for 1 out of 1000 users.
*The box and Amazon advert includes a 4G-LTE logo: really, can it be used for a cell phone?
* Microchip – “Built-in upgraded smart chip provides advanced VHF/UHF HD channels”; “Antenna can pick up VHF and UHF Channels thanks to the upgraded smart chip. With this booster technology it allows to reach signal as far as 200 miles (depends on your distance from nearest signal tower, the obstructions between your house and signal tower), and meanwhile reducing the signal noise interference.” : I see no evidence of a microchip. No power for a microchip. It may have some diodes, caps, and resistors somewhere (doubtful) but microchip – probably not. There is a balun to convert to 75ohm coax. This is a passive system. Classic yagi.

Good TV antenna in spite of the advert silliness.

Excellent aerial antenna for the price. Easy to put up n set up. Crisp, clear picture quality n comes with everything needed n a 4 way splitter to attach 4 TV’s. And yes, it picks up all of the channels available, if not, most.
Super happy with this purchase.