Best Radio Antennas
The Most Powerful 8-Element Bowtie Antenna Available - 70 Mile Range [NOTE: location, obstructions, and building materials affect reception].
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Find Best Price at Amazon"SPECIAL NOTE: I got the antennas and not a rotating antenna because there are 4 tv's in the house and I was not about to fight with my wife and the three kids over what direction the antenna was going to point. So I got stationary antennas and pointed at all the transmission towers. As in if there is one within 200' of the antenna and if you have to point at the the power lines, your reception will not be as advertised. 1x 8 Element Bowtie Indoor/Outdoor HDTV Antenna. 1x Clearview 2 Antenna. 1x Splitter to reverse. 1x Channel Master CM3414 4-Port Distribution Amplifier. 1x Mast (Then had to replace it because it bent over in a wind storm and I replaced with 1" pipe. The Antenna by itself got me roughly 50 channels. The 82mi tower I was getting 98% and I got all the channels from all the towers around Ellicot City, Md. I also got all the channels from all the towers in Philadelphia, Pa (40mi."
"Decided to take the old DB8, mount it in my attic pointed it at towers in the opposite direction and combine the signal off both UHF antennas with a Monster 3Ghz splitter used as a combiner. Now I have 3 antennas signals combined and receiving every channel with 100 miles of me with a minimum of 50% signal strength up to 86% all with no added amplification."
"We needed to cover over 90 degrees of the sky to pull in ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, Independent stations and side channels such as COZI, Comet, ThisTV, ION, CW and more."
"In my old house, I was using some 30 mile leaf antennas. Seeing as I was only a couple miles (between 4 and 12 miles) away from the stations, I thought they would work great. I was constantly futzing with the leaf position to get the different stations. So when I built my new house (about 4 more miles away from stations), I wanted something that could provide signals to the whole house without any futzing."
Boost FM reception on your Bose Wave system with this external dipole FM antenna. Compatible with Wave Music System, Acoustic Wave Music System and Wave Radio II.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Works as expected."
"I finally got it replaced with this Bose Wave FM Antenna and it works wonderfully."
"Thought this product would work better."
"Delivered early, works as advertised."
"Bose "enhanced" their premier product , the Wave radio with a 1'8" mini plug dipole antenna."
"Recently I purchased the Bose Wave FM Antenna for my Wave radio in an attempt to get a clearer signal from several "local" FM stations. After doing some "internet research", I decided that I would purchase the Bose antenna... Bose radio... Bose antenna... it has to be good. This is a dual disappointment... first, why didn't Bose include this antenna with the $500.00 radio (maybe because it makes no difference in reception, i.e. doesn't work) and second it's a "chintzy" item that doesn't work for which I paid $15.00 (with shipping costs)."
"sorry-- this antenna did not work for me."
"Only slight improvement picking up two of my favorite fm stations that come in loud and clear in my vehicles."
It also features a black finish, unity gain vhf/2.5 DBD gain uhf and a 12-foot rg-58 cable with uhf male Pl259. Complete with antenna, magnet & cable.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Does a fair job of boosting the meager 5W signal off the roof of my truck."
"I purchased two of these antenna's for my vehicle to connect to a new communications radio and they work great!"
"It has a very limited range but it does work."
"At first I used this with my cheap Baofeng to improve the range and got by for a couple of months in the winter just fine. I finally got a "real mobile" rig and hooked this up to my Icom 880 and have gotten very good reports. I always runs 50 watts when on simplex but typically use middle power when hitting repeaters."
"The fitting on the end of the antenna - I should know the name of it - is large enough so that injury from the antenna is unlikely when it is not mounted."
"So 5-stars compared to what I expected of a magnetic antenna, but lower stars as a general solution as you may as well drill a hole as you can cap an NMO mount when you sell the car and no one will care."
"I have noticed that RX has slight static in urban settings (in between buildings etc) and I used to monitor dispatch from two counties north of me with crystal clear RX on the Wilson and have noticed slight static on the Tram (intermittently) nothing upsetting and still worth the stars."
"The antenna is exactly what I wanted."
Best TV Antennas
Get superior reception without the whole neighborhood noticing. DISCLAIMER: Reception quality and channels received will depend on distance from towers, broadcast power, terrain and other factors.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Havana FL Terrain: Hilly in a slight valley and trees surrounding the property. Movies and TV shows streamed via my DSL and my DVD collection helped. Recently I decided to try a converter box on my TV, it's an oldie but goodie HD 1080i DLP. I used my old satellite RG6 cable and hooked the antenna to it and laid it on the patio rail. I also decided to pick up a Windgard XT LNA-200 Boost preamp since this antenna is not amplified at all. I placed the LNA on the pole right under the antenna, hooked everything up and aimed the Yagi to 94 degrees magnetic. Construction is of high quality aluminum, stainless, and plastic/nylon parts and I have no doubt it will last for years to come. Networks received - ABC CBS NBC FOX and a few piggyback stations that transmit from the networks including a channel that plays old B&W movies, love 'em, and a local weather channel so I can tune into MY area for up to date weather feeds. All the other antennas I tried only got signal strengths fluctuating of around 49 - 55% amplified - that was unacceptable to this engineer. The RCA ANT751R and the Wingard LNA Preamp are a perfect combo if you live in an area like mine. -v-. Update: 04-04-2017. The antenna reviewed above with it's Wineguard Preamp are still functioning perfectly."
"Once i got the antenna installed and correctly oriented, I went from 0 to 48 digital and analog channels!"
"I've also added a 4 tuner Tablo Wi-Fi DVR with a 2 TB Western Digital Elements hard drive. With the local channels covered, Amazon Prime and Netflix we have plenty of content to watch."
"So I purchased and installed this antenna up in my attic and ran a coax to the splitter downstairs to feed my house."