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 Incredibly good antenna August 20, 2008
picaman (New York, NY USA)
36 out of 37 found this review helpful
I live in New York City about 14 miles north of stations broadcasting from the Empire State Building. I tried indoor antennas, both the Terk HDTVa Indoor Amplified High-Definition Antenna for Off-Air HDTV Reception and the RCA ANT525 AMPLIFIED ANTENNA, neither of which would pull in stations consistently even when I was constantly moving the antenna to maximize reception. The signal quality was constantly bouncing between 10% and ~80%, so stations were constantly cutting in and out.
I purchased this antenna when it was recommended by the telephone agent at AntennasDirect.com. She recommended it for me over the Antennas Direct DB2 Multi Directional HDTV Antenna because this one was somewhat less directional, and smaller in size.
All I can say is, WOW. I have 100% signal strength on nearly all channels, with a consistent 85% - 100% signal quality. It pulls in 24 HD stations (more than the ones I tried before) without moving the antenna at all, and with no extra amplification. I am using it as an internal antenna -- it's just placed by the window.
This antenna is worth every penny I paid for it, and more. I cannot recommend it highly enough.
good small antenna August 8, 2008
John Johansen
18 out of 20 found this review helpful
This antenna is fairly small and it works well. Just laying it flat on top of our tv gave a better signal than our old antenna with amp (bunny ears + loop) that we had picked up at the store. Mounted in our garage attic (attenuates the signal about 50%), pointing in the general direction of the towers we get a perfect signal.
Note that while this antenna is designed as a uhf and high vhf (channels 7-13) antenna, and I wouldn't recommend it as a low vhf (channels 2-6) antenna, we actually get a significantly better low vhf signal with it than with rabbit ears.
small and powerful August 5, 2008
Jerome A. Klapak (Becker, MN)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
This antenna seems very small and flimsy but it sure works great. I live 45+ miles from the transmission sites but get all signals in HD. Haven't tried it on an analog TV yet and probably won't as there is only a couple months left of them but the digital reception is great. One screw assembles it, mount it to a mast of some sort (I used the old satellite mount arm I had) and point it in the general direction of the towers. LOVE IT!
Excellent Results! April 18, 2009
J. Huff (Dallas, TX)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
I had excellent results with the this antenna. The antennaweb.org website recommended a medium range antenna with a pre-amp as I am about 35 miles away from the antenna farm in Dallas/Fort Worth. Just to try it out I set the antenna on our dresser and connected to our new LCD TV in the bedroom on the far side of the house. I got a clear signal instantly with killer high definition. No preamp, antenna indoors.
I then took the antenna and mounted it on the old satellite dish pole that was already on our roof from the previous owner. I disconnected the Time Warner cable where it comes into the house and connected the Clearstream2 antenna there. All 8 TV's in our house get crystal clear digital pictures, and the pre-amp is NOT connected.
In case anyone is wondering, I get 66 channels in DFW right now, 42 of which are digital. If everyone gets on this band wagon, ESPN, CNN, MSNBC, and the other "cable/satellite only" channels will have to go to broadcast or possibly be looking at getting shut down.
This form of over the air TV totally rocks over what we had in the 70's! Cable and satellite can't even hold a candle to the high definition picture quality. As a bonus, the audio is in true Dolby 5.1 or better. We will NEVER go back to cable again, except for out internet. Our Time Warner bill is now $41 for high speed internet only and we will be looking at other options for that too real soon.
I give this product five stars and would recommend anyone to get it.
A Great Little Antenna April 18, 2009
ADR (KY USA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I usually don't leave reviews for the products I have purchased, good or bad experiences. But I was so happy with this antenna that I wanted to give my opinion of it.
I have purchased several antennas with no luck. I have bought antennas online and 2 or 3 from Wal-Mart and have returned all of them because they just didn't work for me. After reading the reviews of the Clearstream2 antenna, I thought why not. The reviews looked pretty good.
I ordered this for my mother. Her location is almost centered between Lexington KY, Louisville KY and Cincinnati OH. We installed this about 3 feet above the roof and received Lexington & Cincinnati all UHF channels, but nothing from Louisville. A few days ago one of the Lexington channels converted to digital. They are using a VHF High frequency channel and she was unable to get this. I started turning the antenna in hopes it would make a difference and boy what a difference. Not only did it bring in the VHF channel that's located about 36 miles away with a signal strength between 68-69, but she now gets the Louisville channels located 58-60 miles away with a signal strength of 70-80. The other Lexington channels have a strength of 83-85 and the Cincinnati channels located 47-50 miles away have a signal strength 75-83. In total she now picks up over 35 channels.
This is a great little antenna, and very powerful for it's size. I'm definitely glad I took a chance on this one, I sure don't regret it. If you don't get a picture at first, be sure and turn it to every possible direction before you give up on it, that seems to be the key. Hope this helps.
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