UPDATED REVIEW: Returning this antenna after a consult with company.
UPDATE:

After just over a week, I am returning this antenna. Based on the fact that on multiple occasions I have had the main stations I wanted to watch lose signal and pixelate or go out completely. This has been VERY frustrating!

This past Wednesday evening, we wanted to watch a show on CBS. When I turned the TV on, that station was gone. NO SIGNAL at all! What???

I climbed into the attic and repositioned the antenna. Multiple times. Each time I’d climb back down and go check the TV. After about 5 tries, I finally got CBS to come in perfectly.

We missed about 15 minutes of the show.

This has happened several times since, with different stations. I give up!

Today I called the company number on the included instruction sheet. After talking with a rep there, we determined that this was NOT the best antenna for our needs. I will be ordering the antenna the rep recommended and returning this one.

I will say that even with the inconvenience, it is WELL WORTH it since I am still cutting cable and those ridiculous high bills!

The customer service for Amazon and Antennas Direct is outstanding!

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I’ve been wanting to get an antenna for quite some time. Having ‘cut cable’ years ago, I have missed seeing my local TV stations. But the cost savings by not having cable has been well worth it.

I now wish I’d bought an antenna sooner! I found this one by reading recommendations in a well-known consumer testing write-up.

Straight out of the box, I was a bit surprised and doubtful that this thing would work. I will say that it appears a bit flimsy, or ‘floppy’ would be more correct. That big loop you see is a type of plastic that is not too rigid. It bends and flops about pretty easily. But I figured as long as it works, no big deal.

I started experimenting with different locations in my living room. Each time running a new scan. The first location/scan was a bit depressing. I got 29 stations. When I looked at the Channel List, MOST of those stations were the random shopping/religious/old reruns stations. Nothing wrong with that, BUT my main desire was to get my 3 local main network stations plus PBS. I was only getting one of those.

Moving about and running a new scan after each move, the count of stations was a roller coaster. The lowest count was 27, the highest was 33. And STILL, only getting one of the network stations I wanted.

I was thinking this antenna was NOT going to work out for my needs.

The only other option was to put it in the attic. I was NOT very favorable in doing that. NOT in the April heat here in Florida. BUT I knew right where my old existing ‘cable era’ line was and it was right by the attic access ladder.

I found the attic cable I needed for the living room right away. I was half hot, half not. My upper half bearing the heat of the attic, my lower half feeling the breeze in my opened garage as I stood on the attic ladder gaining access to the old cable line. I hooked the antenna up to that line. I gingerly pinned it to a roof truss in the general alignment I needed based on my antenna pointing app on my phone.

NOW, it was time to see the results.

Climbing down, off the ladder, I eagerly ran a rescan in the living room. Now, I was getting 57 channels. I WAS getting the 3 main networks now, but they were a bit pixelated. Soooo, back on the ladder, readjust the antenna. Back down the ladder and rescan the channels.

Next time, I got 59 channels and now, SUCCESS! I was getting all 3 local network channels perfectly!

I still wanted PBS and that took quite a bit more fine tuning of the antenna and rescanning until I finally got the end results I was hoping for. I now have EXCELLENT digital reception of all the channels I wanted AND more!