TV Outdoor Yagi Antenna with Long Range Reception Capacity - Digital TV Antenna Available for Attic or Roof Mount, Long Range Digital OTA Antenna for Clear Reception, 4K/1080P/HD

This little antenna absolutely rocks! I’ll give a full review of it below, but first I want to offer a little advice to those cutting the cord for the first time and wondering which antenna to buy.There are just a couple of fundamentals you need to know. The first is, you need to know what frequencies you are actually trying to receive and tune for. Over-the-air broadcast TV as it comes to us, is basically in three segments: Low VHF (channels 2-6), High VHF (channels 7-13, and UHF (channels 14 and above). Unfortunately, you need to know this because your favorite station may or may not be broadcasting on the advertised station number. And the frequency it is actually broadcast on should directly affect your choice of antenna. You can determine this by logging on to RabbitEars.info-(your city name here). For example, Channel 19 in our market is actually broadcast on high VHF-10. Channel 3 is actually broadcast on UHF-19, etc. It usually shakes down like this: UHF channels are the easiest to receive, low VHF stations are a little harder, and high VHF channels are the most difficult. My “Great White Whale” was local channel 8 (actually still broadcast on VHF-8). It is a “high” VHF station, and has a couple other issues that made it difficult for me to receive easily.The second fundamental is which type of antenna you need to tune for the frequencies in your area. If you research and find that all the stations in your area that you care about are actually broadcast on UHF (happening more and more these days), almost any antenna will work for you. UHF stations literally need little more than some metal sticking up in the air. Low VHF stations usually require some shorter horizontal prongs or “tynes” for clear reception. High VHF stations need the longer horizontal tynes you see on some antennas, particularly older ones. The long and short (sorry for the pun) of this is, you can’t expect to successfully receive high VHF if the antenna you choose has no provisions for it. Don’t ask me how I know this – after doing much research and even chatting with a technical assistant at an antenna company, I did the WRONG thing and purchased not one, but TWO antennas that were never going to work for me before I ordered this McDuory Yagi style antenna. I do stupid things so you don’t have to. You’re welcome.As mentioned, I had previously tried two other antennas that both yielded approximately the same results. Both pulled in all the UHF stations without issue. I can’t really comment on the performance of either of these with both our low-numbered stations, 3 and 5, as both are actually broadcast on UHF frequencies. But channel 8, and to a lesser extent channel 19 (broadcast on VHF-10) were problematic. Both would come in well on a good weather day. But they would pixelate or break up in changeable weather, and in the worst weather I would just get a black screen with an error message saying “No Signal”. Hindsight being 20-20, this is not surprising since neither antenna had the long horizontal tynes needed to receive high VHF. I grew frustrated and needed to search for yet another antenna.Now, back to my review of the McDuory Yagi antenna. After searching around, I decided to try this antenna for several reasons. First and foremost, there were hundreds of good reviews with a number of them being from people who lived in mountainous regions and still got good performance. Second, it has a compact footprint and my mounting location allows the antenna to be seen from one front corner of our property. And last but not least, it was relatively inexpensive, and I had already squandered dollars on the two previous antenna choices.As is usual with Amazon deliveries, this antenna arrived before the projected delivery date. Upon inspection, the overall quality of this antenna was very good with one exception: I have to agree with the other reviewers that the fit of the longer tynes in their respective plastic sockets (they are all numbered for easy assembly) was not good and could easily be dislodged in a strong wind. I remedied this by simply drilling a 1/8” hole through each socket and tyne, and installing a pop rivet in each. If you don’t have provisions for pop rivets, I imagine some small sheet metal screws would do just fine. Other than that, assembly and mounting was straightforward and without drama.The results were exactly what I had been searching for since I started this antenna “Quest”. As expected, all the UHF broadcasts are rock solid and without issue. Channels 8 and 19 (high VHF) are also solid and steady in virtually all conditions. This past week, we had typical northeastern spring weather that fluctuated wildly between warm, cold, sun, rain, snow, and wind. In the worst of it, I only saw an occasional isolated “crackle” on channel 8, but no pixelation or signal break-up of any kind. I even believe that the picture is sharper and clearer than with the other two antennas. With what I’ve been through in all this, I’m going to call this a win!Remember cord cutters, there is no such thing as an “HD antenna”. There are only bent pieces of metal in certain sizes and shapes intended to receive specific broadcast frequencies. Everything else is useless sales hype. Do your homework and find out what actual frequencies you want to receive and buy an antenna capable of doing the job! I would recommend this antenna to anyone who is within 50 miles of the broadcast towers for the stations they want to receive.

I just canceled the local tv package from my cable company and decided to buy over the air antenna to watch the local tv channel where cowboys games are air on every week. I installed it in the attic and put it height as I can and the results was super good I will be able to receive all major channels like Fox / NBC / ABC / CBS plus some other extra channels the tv towers are about 30 miles from my home I pointed the antenna directly to the towers location and the signal strength from my tv showed full bar the channels broadcast with HD pictures super clear overall I am happy for $40 dollars it’s doing good job I forgot to mention before I bought this antenna I also bought a indoor antenna with the amplifier because it is easy to install just put it on the wall or seat next to the tv you know what the results was sucked I only can get one or two channels at a time if you want to watch other channels you have to move the antenna around and then you loose the channels you just watch so I threw it in the trash and bought this antenna happy camper now save money for year to come

Antenna design hasn’t changed in decades, so most antennas of the same size and shape should perform similarly. This one turned out to work well for my specific application circumstances of <20 miles from the broadcast towers with minimal trees etc. intervening and mounted outside at about 25’. Its cost was modest and was going to be proof of concept to see if I needed a higher gain (and higher cost) antenna, but I didn’t. YMMV of course.The antenna comes “semi-disassembled”, obviously for packaging and shipping economy. Parts are aluminum and plastic. Hardware appears to be nickel or chrome plated steel which may eventually rust after a few years outside. Assembly instructions were “mostly” clear with one seeming omission: When seating the individual rods, they go easily part way into the plastic holder but then need to be forcibly inserted fully so that they make contact with the metal “spine” and don’t come out. There were marks on the rods showing fully inserted depth (looks like they were made with a Sharpie). I had to use a rubber mallet on most to get them to fully seat. If not fully inserted, they could come out and/or not make contact with the metal spine which could degrade the performance. I chose to test all of them with a multimeter to make sure before I installed the antenna.All in all, the product is a reasonable value for the money with “some assembly required”, and I would recommend it to others.

This antenna was worth the few extra dollars more than the first one that I returned.It was easy to assemble and picks up a lot more channels. Satisfied at this time but at some point, I will try a different location to see if I can pick up more channels. Nothing wrong with the way it is, it's just my engineering background curiosity.