Five Star Outdoor HDTV Antenna up to 200 Mile Long Range, Attic or Roof Mount, Digital OTA Antenna for 4K 1080P VHF UHF Supports 4 TVs Installation Kit & J Mount, ATSC 3.0 Ready

This antenna has amazing clarity and reception. Just set it up today, and the range seems pretty good. I live about 25 miles north of Houston, and most TV broadcast towers are about 15-20 south of the city. Thus, there are 45 miles or more between my house and these broadcast antennas, with all sorts of buildings in between. However, this antenna picked up 128 over-the-air channels without issue. Now, I have to trim that channel list down because I won't be watching the shopping channels and some others. The included antenna coax cable is about 40 feet long, so you may have more than you need for your installation. For my installation, I connected the antenna coax to the enclosed splitter and hooked up the existing coax which used to be the feed from my cable provider's service box. I did not need the included J-pole and mounting bracket because I attached the antenna directly to an old push-up flagpole that I had in place already. The antenna's mounting bracket tightened solidly to the top section of that pole. Assembly of the antenna is simple overall. The instructions are minimal and mostly diagrams, but are easy to follow. I do recommend using a pair of pliers to tighten the screws and wingnuts securely during assembly. The instructions aren't clear when assembling the final VHF vibrator section. The end-most VHF vibrator antenna has two (2) sections with two small "buttons" that only align one way; otherwise, these sections will not tighten to the main bar and the plastic may break. This alignment is NOT MENTIONED in the instructions. To assemble these sections of the antenna, be certain that the screw heads on both antenna sections face the same way. Doing so allows the "buttons" to align, and the sections will tighten properly with the three screws provided. Overall, I am quite happy with this antenna and would recommend it to others. There are cheaper ones, and more expensive ones, but this one works well.

Item received in good & working condition.

This was a great purchase. I am using it in of the broadcast towers are located in a spread of about 10° of separation roughly 45 miles away as the crow flies. There is one moutain with a rise of about 2,500' from my location in the line of site. They do not adversely effect my reception. I have one tower located about 100° towards the rear for of the antenna. It is about 5 miles away on another mountain about 3,000' above me. It picks it up as well, I believe because of how close it is. I am receiving 60 channels. Using a flat amplified indoor antenna, I was at about 26. About my installation, I used my DirectTV mount on my second story roof after removing the old dish. I used this as opposed to the rather flimsy mount that came with the unit. I used the satellite wiring that ran into the home. One important note, you MUST remove any satellite splitters in the line, they are not compatible for OTA use. You can replace it with a standard barrel connector if running to a single TV. If running to multiple sets use either a standard Cable TV splitter or the one that may have come with your antenna purchase. I used a Spectrum Cable spliter that was in an unused cable line on mine. I did as instructed in the installation instructions and tested before installation. It worked fine, I actually gained channels when I roof mounted it though. This antenna has a pretty good gain rating of 11db on VHF channels. I have a mix of VHF and UHF here and performs well on each. As far as my Cable run. The main line runs from the antenna on the 2nd floor roof down to the foundation to the opposite side of the home to the cable/satellite junction box on the other end of the house. This is where I placed a 2 port splitter. One line runs back to the living room where the set is on the ground floor. This is a total run of approximately 80'. The second line runs to a mother-in-law cottage out back. This run has aa total length in excess of 175'. There is a bit of signal loss on this line. The result being the station being broadcast from one of the low power towers is unwatchable. No negative effect on any of the other stations. I doubt that is antenna actually will pickup stations beyond 75~90 miles unless you are on very flat terrain, but in the situation I am using it, the performance is great. Will update in the future if anything changes.

Our Five Star HDTV Antenna up to 200 Mile Range antenna came on time and securely packaged. Assembly was straight forward with decent instructions. It replaced an huge older style antenna (old enough that the cable connectors were wing nut screw terminals for flat antenna wire) that had broken, sunbaked plastic clips that allowed the long rods to blow in the wind). It is pole mounted 7 feet above our roof line at 7300 feet elevation pointed, with a clear shot, at the Sandia Crest broadcast antennas which are at ~10,680 foot elevation 46 miles away. It pulls in 90 channels, of which 72 come in clearly. (It hasn't improved any of the writing or acting.)

Easy to put together and the reception and amount of channels is awesome!!