Long Range UHF- HDTV 91 Element Yagi Antenna

I installed for an elderly friend that couldn't get internet inexpensively. Area was west of Banquete Tx, close to Rancho Banquete. The tower of the channel that I could not get was Low power and almost directly 35 miles due East in Corpus Christi, Texas. The majority of the other Major Networks were southeast about 15 to 19 miles. According to tvFool All of the signal is sent southeast from the tower in north corpus Christi that has DABL, so away from Banquete and at least 1 station should have been hi-VHF. This antenna picked up everything. I had an RCA with the 1 bowtie looking reflector and it worked good getting 41 channels including 2 duplicates. This Antenna pretty much the same price got 59 channels with the same duplicates. This was installed on a 5' pipe(to clear the rear reflector) stuck in a directv pipe on the bottom edge of the roof slope that's about 10' high so I'm guessing 15 to 17 feet. The land out there is flat and very, very windy. It's spring and winds of 20 to 30 are normal ALL DAY AND NIGHT from March to June, we'll see how it holds up. I have to say on the lower powered channels it is very sensitive to direction. On the channel DABL 29.3, if you were off by 15 degrees it would pixelate 20 it would freeze otherwise it was solid and stable. Everything was done barefoot with no amplifier. Seems well built for the price and looks like it would last a while. At this Price (NOT PRICE POINT) it's worth it to buy yearly IF needed. THIS antenna will outperform what you have now if all your towers are in one general direction. I highly recommend for rural areas.

I live on the south shore of Long Island approx 40 miles east of New York City, and I just installed this antenna along with a Stellar Labs VHF antenna (Part # 30-2476 - which is necessary for channels 7, 11, and 13 in my area) & Stellar Labs Signal Combiner (Part # 33-2230), and overall I couldn't be happier! I installed them in my garage rafters, with this UHF positioned higher in the peak (which thankfully in my case runs east to west), and the VHF antenna resting on rafters approx 4 feet lower and 4 feet to the north. No amplifiers of any kind, but I did run all new Mediabridge Coaxial Cables from the antennas to the "signal joiner" and then to a single "two way" splitter feeding 2 Samsung LED TVs. Overall I'm amazed at how many channels are out there FREE OF CHARGE, including "sub channels" of the major networks I didn't even know existed . Not every one of them HD, as some of the sub channels are broadcasting older shows long before HD existed, but the vast majority are all HD and the picture quality is excellent. It's evidently a cleaner signal than I was getting from cable because cable companies evidently compress their signals to increase capacity while these are pure from the transmitting towers. I even pick up Channel 55 which is NorthEast of me, and that was a complete surprise because these are both "highly directional" antennas. One final comment - I'm only using Samsung TVs so I can't speak for all brands, but these TVs make it very easy to "edit" channels (remove those with marginal quality or language you don't understand) - and better yet - the Remote Controls have a "Guide" button which displays a complete TV Guide for all stations over the next 12 hours or so at the simple push of a button. Amazing! (at least to me). Guess I've been living a sheltered life, but that was a completely unexpected and wonderful surprise. All in all - Home Run!

My perspective of this is a written as a HAM radio operator and someone that builds my own TV antennas. First off, the summary of Pro's and Cons.....Pro's--Great for those that live further than 40+ miles from transmitters or have trees or hills in the way.--Not much height needed to achieve a good signal as I am in a low area of NC and have trees all around me.- Good build and seems like it will hold up well during bad weather (ice, wind, etc)-Great gain factor (amplification) even without an amplifier.Cons:-Destructions (as I call instructions) are terrible.-Plastic that "could" easily break if you are not careful.Overall, this is a good antenna. I am located near Charlotte and my stations are only located 30 miles away, but I am in a valley and have many trees around me. I am picking them up with no issues. When I turned it, I was also able to to pickup another market that is 65 miles away. Mine is only mounted about 25ft off the ground and with a pre-amplifier and performs well.As others have mentions, the instructions are terrible if you have never put together an antenna before. Look at the box for a good illustration of "what goes where" when assembling it. If you take your time and have patience, this is a good value.Also, for other smaller antennas that advertise 100+ miles, this is not tru unless you have it on a tall tower. This one advertises 70 miles which IS realistic given the fact that I am getting channels 65 miles away with a pre-amp.keep in mind, this is a DIRECTIONAL antenna. You "may" get close stations off the side of it like I am, but your strongest signal will come from where you point the from end (elements towards target, "V" shaped reflector at the back of it. Will post a pic soon.