SiliconDust LPF-608M LTE Filter for TV Antennas USA 2020 Standard 600/608/618MHz

To watch over the air TV channels, I have an outdoor antenna. Indoors, I have a legacy Tablo quad-tuner hooked up to a Roku Ultra device. All OTA (Over the Air) channels come in quite well except for our local ABC 7.1 station. This station broadcasts on VHF. My wife watches The View either live or from DVR recordings. This is where there was a problem. Unfortunately, frequent problems on that ABC channel occurred, with either the picture failing or the audio failing, or both. Despite Tablo errors that indicated the problem was with the signal, the problem was not 100% clear as Tablo can misreport reception errors when the cause is something else, such as an old hard drive with buffering problems. What to do? I could replace the hard drive (which might fix the problem or achieve nothing), or I could pay someone $500 to raise my antenna to get better reception. This might also do nothing. So based on some ChatGPT queries, I learned that *some* folks had fixed reception problems on VHF stations using this filter. I thought why not give it a try. If it didn't work, I would just return the filter to Amazon. It was trivial to attach the filter. The filter solution has worked remarkably well. The filter has now been attached for months and in that time there has been just one one-time problem on that channel, and that was a very brief interruption in signal. This is a big difference in reception quality. My wife is happy and that is the most important thing. She now can watch the View with little or no issues. If you have a reception problem on a VHF station, I would definitely give this filter a try, especially before considering more expensive fixes.

Okay, I'm impressed. I attached this filter between my indoor antenna and the TV, rescanned for channels, and now have ten more channels available to me bringing the total to 30. Channels are coming thru clearer now as well. I'm 50 miles from broadcast towers, but very close to cell towers which this filter blocks out. I've been working with the Antenna Guy and he recommended this filter as well as a different indoor antenna for me which I just ordered so I'm hoping I'll pick up even more channels. Either way, I get Jeopardy clearly now as well as the local news, and with this filter I'm picking up a PBS channel that I didn't get before, so yay.

We have a 5G cell tower almost directly between the antenna and the broadcast antenna. This improved the reception on Channel 5 but did not totally fix the problem. I replaced it with the more expensive Televes 560383.

The filter was easy to install however, since I was installing it at the TV's, I had to use a short coax cable because the diameter of the filter was too large to attach directly to the TV's limited space. I was hopeful that this device would improve my TV reception and I was very pleasantly surprised. My home was wired for cable or OTA TV reception. Unfortunately, the coax cabling is not shielded so it picks up random radio frequencies. My OTA TV reception was deteriorating, and I wasn't sure why. I have a VHF and UHF antenna up in the attic of our one story home. We live about 39 miles from most of the UVF and high VHF transmitting towers north of Indianapolis. We were getting around 40 channels but some of the ones we really liked, would come in pixilated, intermittently or not at all during the day. My most recent rescan for OTA TV channels was getting more limited, like around 20 channels My wife recently got a 5G phone and there are now phone towers transmitting 5G signals and, after doing some research, I thought that the RF used for the 5G as well and RF being transmitted by LED light and our microwave might be an issue with our OTA reception. Upon installing the filters on our TV's and rescanning for OTA stations, I was amazed that the number of channels on the TV's that had the shortest coax cable runs of around 30 feet increased to about 80 channels. Even the TV that has about a 60-foot coax run now receives over 50 channels and I am no longer losing stations during the day or getting any pixilation. In fact, I now receive some Louisville, KY TV stations which are about 90 miles away, albeit with some pixilation. I would highly recommend this device to anyone that wants to find an inexpensive way of getting more OTA channels without purchasing and experimenting with various OTA antennas, some of which are close to $200. Just an FYI, I currently have a very simple high VHF antenna with a combiner for the small flat panel antenna that I use for all other stations. the VHF antenna gets the few VHF Indianapolis channels I want since I have it pointed fairly accurately in the right direction. I also have an 8-way splitter/amplifier to increase my reception which helps a lot.

Absolutely incredible! I live in a downtown core with lots of broadcast towers nearby, but that also means lots of interference causing pixelation. After installing this filter thats all gone and I have perfect signal quality! Well worth the money

I live about 25 miles west of Philadelphia, and have a GE Attic Antenna, 50 ft of quad shield coax, a 15db GE amp, and a three way splitter. I get about 15 digital channels from channels 2 to 35 (2 vhf low, 2 vhf high, and 11 uhf), and 97 virtual channels. At my TV, the signal strength of the various channels varies from -73 to -43 dBm, and the signal quality (or MER) from 17 to 36 db. A few of the channels have a non-zero bit error rate (BER). There are several cell towers within 1.5 miles of my house. Anyway, I tried this filter at the antenna, before the amplifier, before the TV, and without the amplifier. I also tested it with a Phillips Rabbit Ears indoor antenna. It had not effect on the signal strength, signal quality, or bit error rate of any of the channels. This includes channel 35 (located just below the 5G n71 band), which is one of my weaker stations. It may be a defective unit, or I just don't have any LTE interference.

I was cutting the cord and setting up an outdoor antenna on our Television. I was advised to buy this filter to avoid interference from local cell towers. I tried the channel scan with and without this filter. I get a better picture without this filter and less interference without it too. I see no value in it

This is a very well made filter. I installed on the cable just before it enters into the TV, but I still had really bad sound on one of my VHF channels within the range of this filter. I tried several filters and all gave the same results. As it turned out, the Roku TV has a bad tuner on that channel. Ended up installing a SiliconDust ATSC Tuner and fed the channels through my network to the TV via the FireTV Stick and no more sound distortion on that channel.

I live about 350 meters from a Telus tower in Burnaby BC and this filter has improved the quality of the stations that I receive. Installation was simple, I just plugged it into my 3rd generation Tablo and plugged the coaxial cable from my antenna into the other end of the filter. Based on other people's reviews, I had been hoping that it would immediately give me more channels which had recently disappeared, but it did not (at least not initially). However, after climbing into the attic and adjusting my antenna, I was able to pick up the missing channels and get a clearer picture quality than expected from the even the far-away US channels. From my experience, it didn't necessarily help pick up more channels on its own, but it made the ones that I could receive look better, appear more consistently and less pixelated.

Lost a channel but gained increased stability for two channels! At the budget-friendly price this is a lifesaver as it stabilized many channels and I am satisfied! Great Filter! I recommend this for all who do OTA TV watching!

If you got a strong signal with pixellisation and live near a cell tower. You might give it a try. But if you receive a weak signal with mozaic display. Dont expect for a miracle. Only for that i dont recommend. Otherwise go for it.

I tried the "Philips LTE Filter 4G 5G LTE" first; went from 11 channels to 13... but things were just slightly better. With this SiliconDust LPF-608M LTE Filter, I went from 11 channels to 16, and they all were more stable, even channels with 30-50% signal strength came in well and with no visual issues. I'm using this with a SiliconDust Quadro Network Tuner + 1 connection direct to TV. All of this with a standard antenna booster (-7db input, many +8db outputs). Clear winner for me is the SiliconDust. Slightly more expensive (5-7$), but worth it. Your mileage may vary. All I think it did (for me) is filter out the interference that block long-range channels that I couldn't get before. I might just adjust my antenna direction a bit...

We have an antenna that runs into my Hauppauge WinTV-dualHD TV tuner, through my computer, and distributes TV via PLEX. We had reception issues on clear days, on windy days, on rainy days. I was not sure what was going on. I read about several possible solutions including cheap antenna, bad cabling, etc. I then read about possible interference from Cell towers, and we have a big Telus tower kind of in line between our antenna and the broadcast towers. I installed this filter and Voila... perfect signal. We still, very occasionally, get a broken signal but almost never. This thing was perfect for our problem and super easy to install. I just screwed it in at the end of the cable run just before the TV tuner attached to my computer.