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I recently dug out and old antenna out of the garage put it up and receiving some decent channels. Thanks for the videos would have never done it keep up the good work I dig the passion you have for it.
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I respect every word you've ever said on this Channel!!! Love ya!!! I'm still using the best according to you!!! It still works great!!! It's been 6 years now. Love all the way from Trapper Creek Alaska!!!✌🏻❤😊👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I literally grew up in TV. I became an antenna guy running crews when I was 12 years old. If a booster goes bad disconnect and wire it straight. It really does not need it anyway for short wired antenna systems. Distribution amps helps in covering many rooms and or homes. The best gain is obtained with 0 db noise, how many detectors and good reflectors. Your 200 mile range can only be obtained with the correct line of sight and a limited number of items to block the signal. I trained myself and began MATV in a large area of very deep fringe TV reception. We installed multiple homes, nursing homes, hospitals, and motels. I eventually began working with High Q boxes and channel traps for separate channel antennas. I'm an old man now but I enjoyed my work. In some valleys in the mountains we built repeaters to deliver signal to very remote locations. These antennas can all be capable of very long distance reception if the line of sight is available. If not no antenna will work. At one time this was the only way to get TV in deep fringe areas. Keep up the good work young man because with the satellites what goes up will come down. With the new digital technology antennas could easily become the norm again. Keep researching.
I no longer need antenna advice as I have one that picks up all the channels I need. But somehow this content is just so satisfying. I will keep watching
We once tested 20 different store (internet) bought antennas. 19 of them were no better than a coat hanger. One had a VSWR of 3, making it marginally effective. Buying antennas is a minefield. Thanks for giving advice.
Your right, truth in advertising needs to be enforced !!!! Keep up the good work kid!!! Franklin S Werren 50 years of installing experience in TV antennas.
I bought one of these "Junk" antennas (LAVA) in 2010. The rotator never worked, but the amplifier worked until recently one day. The problem I had was that the power supply failed, but the amplifier still worked when I substituted another power supply to get it back going. Actually, I used the power supply from a Channel Master 7777 to power it. I would classify this antenna as being "Functional" yet flimsy, so it would be best to use it as an indoor / attic antenna, that is, if you already have one to play with (Don't buy). My experience is that it was better on UHF than VHF, given the same signal strengths for both frequencies. As a cord cutter and "Experimenter" plus with a wife who doesn't care what I put on the roof . I recently bought the Antenna's Direct 8DXB (Or DBX8 as it's also called, I think) for $45 with sales tax and a coupon. Great antenna, but did not pick up any VHF which I totally expected upon my purchase (Totally fine). I paired this with my Channel Master 7777 amplifier on a tripod in my family room (Temporarily until mounting on the roof with another VHF antenna). We are about 30 air miles North of Baltimore Television Hill transmitters, and I receive all but the two VHF stations, but all other UHF channels are very strong (Not surprising). We also receive UHF channels from the Harrisburg market which is about 60 air miles away (UHF). My Channel Master 7777 has a separate VHF input, so I took the VHF elements off of the "Junk" antenna and attached it to the VHF only input to of the amplifier (Using a balun and short coax), and this added back the two Baltimore VHF stations and the one VHF station from the Harrisburg / Lancaster market (And stronger than before). I also think that the amplifier you use makes the difference, so the right antenna combination for your area (Which can differ for each of us) along with a good amplifier (I think Channel Master Titan presently) seems to be the right combination to consider. My experience, but what do you think?
@@MrMikey1273 Yes, WGAL. The other two are WJZ and WBAL. I would like to get WPVI, but I am not sure if I can rig a VHF-Low add on to the existing antennas I have. I would like to get one of those spectrum analyzers to tweak this.
@@RobertD823 if you can get that then you are probably in northern Maryland or southern York or Lancaster county. I hear Wpvi is hard to get. Not even worth trying from York area
I agree with Tyler that the cheap Amazon antennas have awful preamps. I tried two indoor models and got more channels without the preamp than with it. I returned both and bought an acceptable RCA. The RCA preamp was pretty good.
Nice! Hopefully I'm able to get at least a very decent antenna. If I can pick up WUNU (nearly 100 miles away from me) with junk, I can imagine what I pick up with a Winegard antenna.
@@JustJaidenism A small Walmart (Onn) rabbit ears antenna, which I'm hoping to change very soon. Probably a line of sight thing, still very impressive for a station of that far distance. I got WMYV 48 in Greensboro and a low power station also on Channel 31 that night. I got pictures to prove it too, I may post them eventually.
@@friesareyummy I think you're experiencing something called tropospheric ducting. Do you live near the coast or something, or somewhere you can point your antenna towards NC, and it goes over the water? It tends to be stronger over the water.
@@JustJaidenism I live in a very hilly area of NC, NE of Raleigh. I got WUNU 31 3 weeks ago and before that 2 months ago (when I posted my WMYV video). I also periodically get WTNG 7 as well. I don't get much in the fall, but some of these days are great tropo days.
My personal experience is that adding a preamp to an antenna only makes things worse. Even when I was trying to pull in signals from San Diego (I live in LA) a preamp made things worse. This was in the days of analog TV. A large antenna, mounted high, with good cable RG-6, could pull signals about 100 miles away. In fact, I could get analog signals from Tijuana, Mexico. The switch to digital made this a lot harder to pull off. As a side note, I could talk to fellow hams in San Diego with just 5 watts on the 2 meter FM band. One watt was possible, but it was very scratchy.
Hey Tyler. Five star makes a version that does not have a built-in preamp. I ordered one for my place in the mountains and it doubled the amount of channels I could receive. Would love to see you review that one.
I just need an antenna strong enough to give me a good picture and sound so I can watch other people in stadiums and arenas chance let’s go Brandon! Let’s go Brandon!🇺🇸
1. Antennas can't give you better sound or picture. It varies per station's kbps (audio) and mbps (picture). What does come with a strong antenna is the lack of "no signal" from locals and more stations from other places. 2. Why is Let's Go Brandon a popular chant now? Boosting the ego of a former politician seems funny to me, but people are actually serious about that chant.
@@friesareyummy i think its so popular because everything is getting expensive and this guy is purposely running our country into the ground. That's all🙃its about the new guy doing a horrible job, not about boosting the oarnge guy. C'mon man!
I have one of the other ‘worse’ variants. Definitely Chinesium through and through, but I do think the main culprit for why the preamp fails is a shitty soldering job at the connector - specifically the pick-off point for the power supply. For my application it’s still sufficient since I’m roughly 3 miles from 90% of the transmitters in my area, and I’m mainly making use of its [what I would consider] ‘modest’ directivity capabilities to eliminate the multipath issue I have (my apt backs up to a large metal factory building). On particularly clear days I have pulled in a UHF station that is 70 miles, though I think the metal factory building aided as a big reflector in that case. They’re still garbage nonetheless
Before discovering this channel, I bought and used one of those cheap amplified antennas. It appealed to me mostly because it was small and easy to install. It worked o.k. for about two years and now it's in the landfill, replaced with a REAL antenna that works SO much better. A waste of $40. Oh well. Live and learn. At least it worked well for about two years before dying. Just lucky, I guess.
Probably and most likely, your RG 6 cable went bad and needed replaced. Might have taken a lightning bolt hit that damaged the center conductor and separated the center conductor transmission disconnecting the signals from going through.
Range depends on how tall the tower it is mounted on. A 1,000 foot tower can get the antenna high enough for direct line of sight to a broadcast antenna more than 200 miles away.
@@katherinewillie9776 Trapper Creek Alaska is only 351 feet above sea level. Where I live is over 3500 feet above sea level and people climb to the top of 1000+ foot towers all the time with no problem. Why would climbing a 1000 foot tower there make anyone dizzy?
Thank you for all of your work and especially your objective reasoning. The truth really hurts and I can feel the blood boiling pain of the corporate executives of the manufacturer.
Thank you for the great advice, and I subscribed after viewing this video for the first time viewing for content! I was able to receive your signal 5x5! I loved the antenna smash at the end 😂 🙌🏽
I have this Junk Antenna also... I get most channels....but seldom get ABC....and I like Jeopardy, Wheel and World News with David Muir I use the remote.... however I just discovered the Control button on the box.... What is it for?? Is it the same as using the remote??? I was playing with the button and ABC came in.... I'm confused
Thank you Antenna man! wow I was going to buy this on Amazon today, glad I found you. What I really need is an Antenna that will bring in a strong internet signal from a tower here in Tonopah AZ... got real bandwidth problems with what I have, only 19mbps here and when I have been watching for an hour or so i get the dreaded pin wheel.... OH its so hard to take after you have paid 3.99 or 5.00 bucks to rent a movie. YOU SIR HAVE MY THUMBS UP AND I HAPPILY SUBSCRIBED thanks for your time
I was wondering if there was a way to bypass the bad preamp on this antenna to get a picture ....... would it be possible to wire around it and what would the quality of the picture be ?
No thanks, people should've kept their pre 2000 era antennas with all metal construction, not with plastic that will photodegrade over time when they switched to cable or satellite. A facepalm when I hear people said they took theirs down when they left OTA.
yep when i see a old tv antenna in the trash and it looks ok ill pick it out clean it up and use it or give it to somebody who needs it. ive had 3 woo flung dung antennas they worked fine for a few months and either the coax rots or the amp goes out. i got one now i use for fm stereo and works fine for that sucks for antennas.
You are correct. I have a Radio Shack VU-190 I put in early 80's that is still working great even though 2 long elements are broken off due to a owl that liked to sit on them till he finally broke them off. Antenna man is correct there is no such thing as a DIGITAL ANTENNA since this antenna was made in early 80's and has the orginal RG6 cable and on a 40th tower. I receive stations 80 to 100 miles away most of the time depending on weather and NO amp.
All my channels are within 10 miles radius. Can I get pretty much any antenna. I was considering this one. But everything you review is 43 miles which doesn’t answer question I have, but your videos provide great concept and overall knowledge of the principles of how antennas work. Thank you for your amazing work.
I’ve had the “junk” model for 4 years. Gets great signal and we are 60 miles away from the tower in a place where wind typically gusts up to 60mph a few days a year. Get stations 100 miles away on clear days. Also don’t have to post directly at station tower. I highly recommend the “junk” model. But, it finally died due to ice. Tried the FSA-3806 antenna you are showcasing here- and the inability to direct it left or right was more to overcome than I desired. Press the button and it “may” move, just not the direction I wanted.
The UHF elements do work as directors on the high VHF band. The effect is not a big one. The best director is about 10% short for the wavelength in question.
I build some of my own antennas, but adhere to common knowledge among audio and video people. First, homemade antennas work well if you're close to the source of the signal only. At close range they are excellent. Here, homemade works good. Now, if you are further away from the signal source, these homemade ones will fail long before a good factory made and tested antenna will. I saw a professional installer on TH-cam removing a dish and replacing it. He did not make anything for or even use the dish. He tossed it and put in a factory antenna on the mount. Then he set the direction and it worked well. His words were that antennas are not that expensive and for the money spent, the extra clarity and range of a factory made, and tested one, is worth it. I just bought a cheap factory one and it is true. Even this one that cost me 7 dollars equalled many of the smaller antennas I have built.
I have this antenna, I've had it for 2 yrs. I plan to get a new one this summer. It works ok but l think l could get more with a better one. Thanks for the info. Very informative.
PLEASE. From now on, your videos will need to be rated with regards to the violent content or a mention if no antennas were injured during the filming. I'm now suffering of a major PTSD. Every time I see one of these antenna outside a house, I can only see the suffering that both the antenna and the owner will be subjected to. Pretty scary ! 😱
I bought the cheap one that you told people not to buy because I am just now seeing your channel. I live in a densely packed area, milwaukee, and the antenna works just fine. Just so people know. But I wouldn't buy it again simply listening to what you've said about it
I wish you would tell us what we SHOULD by, rather than what we should not. I am using one of those beam type antennas that you say we should not buy, and it is the only thing that I have found that does work. I live about 60 miles from LA.
My problem is the topography in western Washington. Also, the direction and strength of the broadcast antennas.... I can get a few stations where i am, but not the ones I want
Great site very informative! Question: do you need a converter box if you have a digital tv for it to work? my uncle was able to plug his antenna right into his digital HDTV without a converter? will i be able to do this with any of my Digital HDTV's and i have one Plasma HDTV?
This was hysterical and informative. I'd like to know more. I too live in southeast pa and use just a simple rabbit ear set up that gets me around 30 channels but would like to maybe get a better one. Clearly I'm not ready to pick a better one yet
after making the mistake of purchasing one of the junk antennas you commonly referred to on your channel about six years ago, I have since learned my lesson thanks to help from you and others on TH-cam on how to search for antennas. Happy to say I will certainly steer clear of this product. I am sad to say however, it seems on Amazon for some and inexplicable reason is allowing a greater flood of cheap Chinese tech products to invade their marketplace without much scrutiny and it really makes it challenging to figure out whether or not you’re actually getting something that’s worth the risk of making the investment. i’m thinking not only the FCC, but the FTC may need to start investigating some of the products that are being sold on Amazon at some point. question, I think you did a review on the Winegard elite 70 mile antenna with built-in preamp sometime back. Have you heard any complaints about that particular model? I wants had one installed at my house and it seemed like not terribly long after it was put up the Apple fire started to fail on it. Just curious. Thank you for all your hard work that you do here on TH-cam.
The strangest thing: I've had an antenna mounted in my attic for over a year. This past week I suddenly had ZERO signal strength at both TVs that use this. I had family visiting so I had to wait until today to address. After hooking a small Leaf-style antenna at certain locations it looks like the coax from the antenna to my bedroom (where the signal is split and amplified) has gone bad. I've never heard of that happening before! I'm pretty sure we don't have vermin that would have eaten through the wire. Looks like I have to replace that run - it's in the attic and thankfully temps are cooling down.
Taylor your the Man!!! LOL!!!! Love you passion! (kinda like me!) My brother was going to cut the cord I told what outdoor antenna I recommended and ended getting a cheap stick on the window antenna and said it didn't work so kept cable!! I let him have it and he hung up on me!! LOL!! I took him out for breakfast the next day. All is well.
I hear you!! Can you recommend a quality antenna and where to purchase it. I do have a junk antenna as you put it. Please let me know as i do not want to go back to cable. Thank you..
My junk antenna is still going strong after three years. The first one I bought lasted a year, that one lighting struck nearby. I think a major killer is do not use the cheap cable that might come with it. Cable quality is critical to any antenna cheap or expensive. Good solid connections and also weather proof them I also sealed the housing. I will upgrade to a better antenna if this one ever dies.
I wondered why the cheap piece of junk I bought only worked for 30 minutes. It was the preamp. Thanks. I would like a recommendation for 70 miles range over fairly flat terrain. I live on a farm northwest of Lubbock, Texas.
Being a marine technician, I have a very difficult time trying to get the customer to fix it the correct way 1 freaking time. But as always can't fix ignorance.....
I have 2 relateable comments! 1) Back in August I drove down to Ithaca for a few days. Cruising the back roads from Schenectady, I was amazed at how many rural homes I saw (in the middle of nowhere) using cheap, "ping-ding-ling-fing-ring-a-ding-ding" antennas on their roof's! I would love to have knocked on their doors and asked to check their reception! 2) I FEEL Tyler's anger! I deal in LED flashlights, and there are far too many consumers who waste money on cheap no-name- products that either don't work well from the box, or break soon after buying them! They don't realize what a difference there is between "generic" brands, and quality brands. I TRY to warn them...but like Tyler said ... "they buy them anyway".
No plans to test the antenna. I'm now only reviewing antennas that perform well on Amazon as they get a lot more views than random antennas like the Bleys antenna.
I knew from the thumbnail that I would get to see Tyler smash this one! Clicked on it just for that!!! First thought : OMG, Ping Bing Ding plus rotor. The rotor improves(?) the screwing you get from the antenna.
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I recently dug out and old antenna out of the garage put it up and receiving some decent channels. Thanks for the videos would have never done it keep up the good work I dig the passion you have for it.
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What Antenna would you suggest for the Caribbean to pick up US stations
Hey Antenna Man you have any issues with helping someone that lives in Puerto Rico?
I respect every word you've ever said on this Channel!!! Love ya!!! I'm still using the best according to you!!! It still works great!!! It's been 6 years now. Love all the way from Trapper Creek Alaska!!!✌🏻❤😊👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I love how passionate Antenna man is about saving us all time, trouble and money!
Then beats the shit out of a crap antenna.
Pure video gold. I mean HD video gold!
Yeah. Beats his usual monotone reviews, I guess.
I'm 19 seconds into this video and asking myself. "Is he going to throw this antenna on the floor, smash it, or both?"
...and I was right.😀
I was thinking same thing, when I saw the shape of the antenna.
He's about to whip out the Antenna Man Antenna Mobile.
I love it!!!
I literally grew up in TV. I became an antenna guy running crews when I was 12 years old. If a booster goes bad disconnect and wire it straight. It really does not need it anyway for short wired antenna systems. Distribution amps helps in covering many rooms and or homes. The best gain is obtained with 0 db noise, how many detectors and good reflectors. Your 200 mile range can only be obtained with the correct line of sight and a limited number of items to block the signal. I trained myself and began MATV in a large area of very deep fringe TV reception. We installed multiple homes, nursing homes, hospitals, and motels. I eventually began working with High Q boxes and channel traps for separate channel antennas. I'm an old man now but I enjoyed my work. In some valleys in the mountains we built repeaters to deliver signal to very remote locations. These antennas can all be capable of very long distance reception if the line of sight is available. If not no antenna will work. At one time this was the only way to get TV in deep fringe areas. Keep up the good work young man because with the satellites what goes up will come down. With the new digital technology antennas could easily become the norm again. Keep researching.
Tyler, I LOVE your antenna reviews! You've given us so much information and so many resources, and I, for one, am very grateful.
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I no longer need antenna advice as I have one that picks up all the channels I need. But somehow this content is just so satisfying. I will keep watching
We once tested 20 different store (internet) bought antennas. 19 of them were no better than a coat hanger. One had a VSWR of 3, making it marginally effective.
Buying antennas is a minefield. Thanks for giving advice.
Your right, truth in advertising needs to be enforced !!!!
Keep up the good work kid!!!
Franklin S Werren
50 years of installing experience in TV antennas.
“Don’t be a defender of junk.” Being in tech, this quote is gold.
Thank you as always Antenna Man. I long ago cut the cord and have saved $18,700 in cable TV fees.
Sometimes, after a bad day at work, I just watch a bunch of your videos back to back. This one was awesome. Love that passion lol 😂
I bought a Clearstream 1Max and it works great for its size! Thank you for your reviews!
Yes indeed! I love my Clearstream 2-Max as well!
I love the deadpan delivery on "maybe the station was off the air" at 5:16
I bought one of these "Junk" antennas (LAVA) in 2010. The rotator never worked, but the amplifier worked until recently one day. The problem I had was that the power supply failed, but the amplifier still worked when I substituted another power supply to get it back going. Actually, I used the power supply from a Channel Master 7777 to power it. I would classify this antenna as being "Functional" yet flimsy, so it would be best to use it as an indoor / attic antenna, that is, if you already have one to play with (Don't buy). My experience is that it was better on UHF than VHF, given the same signal strengths for both frequencies.
As a cord cutter and "Experimenter" plus with a wife who doesn't care what I put on the roof . I recently bought the Antenna's Direct 8DXB (Or DBX8 as it's also called, I think) for $45 with sales tax and a coupon. Great antenna, but did not pick up any VHF which I totally expected upon my purchase (Totally fine). I paired this with my Channel Master 7777 amplifier on a tripod in my family room (Temporarily until mounting on the roof with another VHF antenna). We are about 30 air miles North of Baltimore Television Hill transmitters, and I receive all but the two VHF stations, but all other UHF channels are very strong (Not surprising). We also receive UHF channels from the Harrisburg market which is about 60 air miles away (UHF).
My Channel Master 7777 has a separate VHF input, so I took the VHF elements off of the "Junk" antenna and attached it to the VHF only input to of the amplifier (Using a balun and short coax), and this added back the two Baltimore VHF stations and the one VHF station from the Harrisburg / Lancaster market (And stronger than before). I also think that the amplifier you use makes the difference, so the right antenna combination for your area (Which can differ for each of us) along with a good amplifier (I think Channel Master Titan presently) seems to be the right combination to consider. My experience, but what do you think?
Is the Lancaster station WGAL?
@@MrMikey1273 Yes, WGAL. The other two are WJZ and WBAL. I would like to get WPVI, but I am not sure if I can rig a VHF-Low add on to the existing antennas I have. I would like to get one of those spectrum analyzers to tweak this.
I have several of these type antennas in a box new plan on removing electronic crap and replace with channel master Amp-pre Amp and see what happens.
@@RobertD823 if you can get that then you are probably in northern Maryland or southern York or Lancaster county. I hear Wpvi is hard to get. Not even worth trying from York area
POINT. THAT. SHIT. TOWARDS. PHILLY.
Ok this gets my vote for favorite video of the year!
Ok, Now that was entertaining, especially how the antenna looked like a Limp D1ck at the end
And according to Antenna Man, it was a limo d1ck right out of the box.
that's why they call it a passive antenna
Love it Tyler, my thoughts exactly. You did the RIGHT THING smashing that piece to the junk is really is.
Thanks.
Keep up the good work.
Cosmic.
HEY COSMIC...NICE TO SEE YOU BUDDY!
@@alanramos3782 Hey Alan, welcome, check out the latest on the TH-cam page. Good to hear from you again.
Thanks
7:16 - Office Space meets the Antenna Man.
Now that’s a passionate man that loves his job!
I agree with Tyler that the cheap Amazon antennas have awful preamps. I tried two indoor models and got more channels without the preamp than with it. I returned both and bought an acceptable RCA. The RCA preamp was pretty good.
This antenna reinforces my decision I made. Enjoying my Winegard HD7000r that I purchased a month ago. Picks up WDPN and WPVI well.
Nice! Hopefully I'm able to get at least a very decent antenna. If I can pick up WUNU (nearly 100 miles away from me) with junk, I can imagine what I pick up with a Winegard antenna.
@@friesareyummy Damn, what kind of antenna do you have?
@@JustJaidenism A small Walmart (Onn) rabbit ears antenna, which I'm hoping to change very soon. Probably a line of sight thing, still very impressive for a station of that far distance. I got WMYV 48 in Greensboro and a low power station also on Channel 31 that night. I got pictures to prove it too, I may post them eventually.
@@friesareyummy I think you're experiencing something called tropospheric ducting.
Do you live near the coast or something, or somewhere you can point your antenna towards NC, and it goes over the water? It tends to be stronger over the water.
@@JustJaidenism I live in a very hilly area of NC, NE of Raleigh. I got WUNU 31 3 weeks ago and before that 2 months ago (when I posted my WMYV video). I also periodically get WTNG 7 as well. I don't get much in the fall, but some of these days are great tropo days.
My personal experience is that adding a preamp to an antenna only makes things worse. Even when I was trying to pull in signals from San Diego (I live in LA) a preamp made things worse. This was in the days of analog TV. A large antenna, mounted high, with good cable RG-6, could pull signals about 100 miles away. In fact, I could get analog signals from Tijuana, Mexico. The switch to digital made this a lot harder to pull off.
As a side note, I could talk to fellow hams in San Diego with just 5 watts on the 2 meter FM band. One watt was possible, but it was very scratchy.
I'm in Coronado. I get 4 LA stations with a Televes 149783 and a Stellar Labs 30-2476. Both use preamps though. They help in my situation.
This is one of your best antenna reviews, Great Job
Hey Tyler. Five star makes a version that does not have a built-in preamp. I ordered one for my place in the mountains and it doubled the amount of channels I could receive. Would love to see you review that one.
I just need an antenna strong enough to give me a good picture and sound so I can watch other people in stadiums and arenas chance let’s go Brandon! Let’s go Brandon!🇺🇸
1. Antennas can't give you better sound or picture. It varies per station's kbps (audio) and mbps (picture). What does come with a strong antenna is the lack of "no signal" from locals and more stations from other places.
2. Why is Let's Go Brandon a popular chant now? Boosting the ego of a former politician seems funny to me, but people are actually serious about that chant.
@@friesareyummy You may want to look up what Let’s go Branden really means😊😊😊
@@friesareyummy i think its so popular because everything is getting expensive and this guy is purposely running our country into the ground. That's all🙃its about the new guy doing a horrible job, not about boosting the oarnge guy. C'mon man!
@@friesareyummy Trying to get him re elected. I heard it's snowing in hell also. Not gonna happen.
@@jeep146 you also believed the Hildabeast was a shoo-in.
Great Job! I wish you many new customers who will enjoy good reception from your work in years to come!
Thank you for being so smart and helping so many people.🌸
Tyler, Stop shopping at Ollie's discount bargains. Jerry in Hatfield
😂
I have one of the other ‘worse’ variants. Definitely Chinesium through and through, but I do think the main culprit for why the preamp fails is a shitty soldering job at the connector - specifically the pick-off point for the power supply. For my application it’s still sufficient since I’m roughly 3 miles from 90% of the transmitters in my area, and I’m mainly making use of its [what I would consider] ‘modest’ directivity capabilities to eliminate the multipath issue I have (my apt backs up to a large metal factory building). On particularly clear days I have pulled in a UHF station that is 70 miles, though I think the metal factory building aided as a big reflector in that case.
They’re still garbage nonetheless
Guess the back reflectors get reflected back to the manufacturer ... hehehe ... good going ...
OMG! I laughed so hard I almost spit my coffee on my keyboard.
Before discovering this channel, I bought and used one of those cheap amplified antennas. It appealed to me mostly because it was small and easy to install. It worked o.k. for about two years and now it's in the landfill, replaced with a REAL antenna that works SO much better. A waste of $40. Oh well. Live and learn. At least it worked well for about two years before dying. Just lucky, I guess.
Probably and most likely, your RG 6 cable went bad and needed replaced. Might have taken a lightning bolt hit that damaged the center conductor and separated the center conductor transmission disconnecting the signals from going through.
holy crap...this is my first time actually watching your video all way through...do u smash every crap antenna in every video?
This may make a great Halloween decoration to the show the horror of a poorly made antenna.
Damn, good one.
That destruction sequence was so emotionally satisfying.
I got my dad to upgrade to antennas direct antenna since he had a cheap flat antenna with a cheap amplifier thank's to your videos.
Love your channel, thanks for being so honest.
Range depends on how tall the tower it is mounted on. A 1,000 foot tower can get the antenna high enough for direct line of sight to a broadcast antenna more than 200 miles away.
Ya, go ahead and try to get it that high where I live without getting dizzy climbing up that pole.Trapper Creek Alaska!!!
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Trapper Creek Alaska is only 351 feet above sea level. Where I live is over 3500 feet above sea level and people climb to the top of 1000+ foot towers all the time with no problem. Why would climbing a 1000 foot tower there make anyone dizzy?
Great video! I appreciate your videos and all you do for us cord cutters.
Thank you for all of your work and especially your objective reasoning. The truth really hurts and I can feel the blood boiling pain of the corporate executives of the manufacturer.
Thank you for the great advice, and I subscribed after viewing this video for the first time viewing for content! I was able to receive your signal 5x5! I loved the antenna smash at the end 😂 🙌🏽
I got an antenna that you said it was junk and I had it for over two years up and running and I get 100% signal strength here in Oklahoma City
I have this Junk Antenna also...
I get most channels....but seldom get ABC....and I like Jeopardy, Wheel and World News with David Muir
I use the remote.... however I just discovered the Control button on the box.... What is it for?? Is it the same as using the remote??? I was playing with the button and ABC came in....
I'm confused
I have a similar one and it works fine, just don't watch Muir he's a satanic communist.
Thank you Antenna man! wow I was going to buy this on Amazon today, glad I found you. What I really need is an Antenna that will bring in a strong internet signal from a tower here in Tonopah AZ... got real bandwidth problems with what I have, only 19mbps here and when I have been watching for an hour or so i get the dreaded pin wheel.... OH its so hard to take after you have paid 3.99 or 5.00 bucks to rent a movie. YOU SIR HAVE MY THUMBS UP AND I HAPPILY SUBSCRIBED thanks for your time
If your signals are strong the antenna below will likely work well at your location:
Televes Dinova Mix
The dramatic music was a nice touch.
I was wondering if there was a way to bypass the bad preamp on this antenna to get a picture ....... would it be possible to wire around it and what would the quality of the picture be ?
Yes, I would think you could bypass the amp by wiring around it, of course no need for the power supply then either.
Yes
No thanks, people should've kept their pre 2000 era antennas with all metal construction, not with plastic that will photodegrade over time when they switched to cable or satellite.
A facepalm when I hear people said they took theirs down when they left OTA.
yep when i see a old tv antenna in the trash and it looks ok ill pick it out clean it up and use it or give it to somebody who needs it. ive had 3 woo flung dung antennas they worked fine for a few months and either the coax rots or the amp goes out. i got one now i use for fm stereo and works fine for that sucks for antennas.
You are correct. I have a Radio Shack VU-190 I put in early 80's that is still working great even though 2 long elements are broken off due to a owl that liked to sit on them till he finally broke them off. Antenna man is correct there is no such thing as a DIGITAL ANTENNA since this antenna was made in early 80's and has the orginal RG6 cable and on a 40th tower. I receive stations 80 to 100 miles away most of the time depending on weather and NO amp.
@@butterbean4195 woo flung dung!?!? I'm laughing so hard right now 🤣
Tyler rocks again with his informative review on the POS 5 Star so called antenna.
You should do a spreadsheet with the results of all of your tests. That way it can make it easy for us to see who's on top!
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Tyler's "Gallagher" moments on antennas like this! 🤣
He's the only person that can get pissed without cursing.
All my channels are within 10 miles radius. Can I get pretty much any antenna. I was considering this one. But everything you review is 43 miles which doesn’t answer question I have, but your videos provide great concept and overall knowledge of the principles of how antennas work. Thank you for your amazing work.
I’ve had the “junk” model for 4 years. Gets great signal and we are 60 miles away from the tower in a place where wind typically gusts up to 60mph a few days a year. Get stations 100 miles away on clear days. Also don’t have to post directly at station tower. I highly recommend the “junk” model. But, it finally died due to ice.
Tried the FSA-3806 antenna you are showcasing here- and the inability to direct it left or right was more to overcome than I desired. Press the button and it “may” move, just not the direction I wanted.
those two reflectors are for UHF, for VHF there’s only a simple dipole cut for VHF frequencies but nothing else than it.
The UHF elements do work as directors on the high VHF band. The effect is not a big one. The best director is about 10% short for the wavelength in question.
His videos have turned me into an antenna fan myself. I only use antenna or stream now unless someone I know has a cable package with a great show.
Still love your passion and reviews!
I build some of my own antennas, but adhere to common knowledge among audio and video people. First, homemade antennas work well if you're close to the source of the signal only. At close range they are excellent.
Here, homemade works good.
Now, if you are further away from the signal source, these homemade ones will fail long before a good factory made and tested antenna will.
I saw a professional installer on TH-cam removing a dish and replacing it. He did not make anything for or even use the dish. He tossed it and put in a factory antenna on the mount. Then he set the direction and it worked well.
His words were that antennas are not that expensive and for the money spent, the extra clarity and range of a factory made, and tested one, is worth it.
I just bought a cheap factory one and it is true. Even this one that cost me 7 dollars equalled many of the smaller antennas I have built.
I have this antenna, I've had it for 2 yrs. I plan to get a new one this summer. It works ok but l think l could get more with a better one. Thanks for the info. Very informative.
PLEASE. From now on, your videos will need to be rated with regards to the violent content or a mention if no antennas were injured during the filming.
I'm now suffering of a major PTSD. Every time I see one of these antenna outside a house, I can only see the suffering that both the antenna and the owner will be subjected to. Pretty scary ! 😱
I bought the cheap one that you told people not to buy because I am just now seeing your channel. I live in a densely packed area, milwaukee, and the antenna works just fine. Just so people know. But I wouldn't buy it again simply listening to what you've said about it
WOW! I'll betcha that antenna worked just as good after you smashed it with a rock.
I don't have one I like my clearstream antenna so far does good in my area people need to listen to Tyler he knows what he talking about
200 Miles Sign me up.... amazing. So small and cheap... I'm taking down my Channel Master by Winegard yaggies and getting this. Ha ha
Yeees! Tyler smash and rant! Love the channel Tyler.
Should've tried testing it after smashing it. Maybe it would've worked then! 🤣 Just kidding. Keep up the good work. 👍
As long as it's an HD antenna I'm in!
I like the fact you tell it how it is good job mate,,😊
General rule of thumb: the cooler and antenna looks, the crappier it is.
That depends on what you find "cool looking". I thought the aracibo dish looked cool.
@@kensmith5694 What channels does the Arecibo Dish pick up? EXACTLY!!
@@mrchopsticks3 It fell down remember.
@@kensmith5694 Did it? I thought they tore it down.
@@mrchopsticks3 The initial damage was from part of it crashing down. They removed what was left.
7:17 Do you think the rock smashing activated the pre-amp circuit???? 🤣🤣
I wish you would tell us what we SHOULD by, rather than what we should not. I am using one of those beam type antennas that you say we should not buy, and it is the only thing that I have found that does work. I live about 60 miles from LA.
My problem is the topography in western Washington. Also, the direction and strength of the broadcast antennas.... I can get a few stations where i am, but not the ones I want
How do we connect this to a projector or my processor? There is no coax on either.
Just found your channel and I subed. I was just looking at this antenna.
Well of course the build quality has been improved, they probably saw you destroy the last one!
Excellent antenna smashing music!!! Great review!
Tyler what is with you description? HD antenna, I thought most vhf, uhf antennas could pull in HD.
Great site very informative! Question: do you need a converter box if you have a digital tv for it to work? my uncle was able to plug his antenna right into his digital HDTV without a converter? will i be able to do this with any of my Digital HDTV's and i have one Plasma HDTV?
This was hysterical and informative. I'd like to know more. I too live in southeast pa and use just a simple rabbit ear set up that gets me around 30 channels but would like to maybe get a better one. Clearly I'm not ready to pick a better one yet
after making the mistake of purchasing one of the junk antennas you commonly referred to on your channel about six years ago, I have since learned my lesson thanks to help from you and others on TH-cam on how to search for antennas. Happy to say I will certainly steer clear of this product. I am sad to say however, it seems on Amazon for some and inexplicable reason is allowing a greater flood of cheap Chinese tech products to invade their marketplace without much scrutiny and it really makes it challenging to figure out whether or not you’re actually getting something that’s worth the risk of making the investment. i’m thinking not only the FCC, but the FTC may need to start investigating some of the products that are being sold on Amazon at some point. question, I think you did a review on the Winegard elite 70 mile antenna with built-in preamp sometime back. Have you heard any complaints about that particular model? I wants had one installed at my house and it seemed like not terribly long after it was put up the Apple fire started to fail on it. Just curious. Thank you for all your hard work that you do here on TH-cam.
Amazon. Also home to the Chinese "9,000,000 lumen" flashlights and "2,000,000 mAh" power banks. Amazon has become like Wish.
Tyler has broken more cheap antennas than a windstorm in Taiwan(and I love it).
The strangest thing: I've had an antenna mounted in my attic for over a year. This past week I suddenly had ZERO signal strength at both TVs that use this. I had family visiting so I had to wait until today to address. After hooking a small Leaf-style antenna at certain locations it looks like the coax from the antenna to my bedroom (where the signal is split and amplified) has gone bad. I've never heard of that happening before! I'm pretty sure we don't have vermin that would have eaten through the wire. Looks like I have to replace that run - it's in the attic and thankfully temps are cooling down.
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funniest dude on you tube !!!!!
I wanna get a bumper sticker that reads, "Honk If You Dig Antenna Man" !!!!!!! 🤘
What antenna should we buy for our cabin up north? What do we need for decent signal?
Taylor your the Man!!! LOL!!!! Love you passion! (kinda like me!) My brother was going to cut the cord I told what outdoor antenna I recommended and ended getting a cheap stick on the window antenna and said it didn't work so kept cable!! I let him have it and he hung up on me!! LOL!! I took him out for breakfast the next day. All is well.
I hear you!! Can you recommend a quality antenna and where to purchase it. I do have a junk antenna as you put it. Please let me know as i do not want to go back to cable. Thank you..
The U shaped tubes are not electrically connected. So it's a fake antenna. Try to connect them and see the difference.
That's just good entertainment right there.
My junk antenna is still going strong after three years. The first one I bought lasted a year, that one lighting struck nearby. I think a major killer is do not use the cheap cable that might come with it. Cable quality is critical to any antenna cheap or expensive. Good solid connections and also weather proof them I also sealed the housing. I will upgrade to a better antenna if this one ever dies.
my 27 buck one he says is junk it still going strong been in high winds hail ect ect,,,..being close to xenia oh ..i get dayton cincy with no problems
My cousin bought this, I set it up for her and....nothing.
ooooh, dude getting passionate !
You the Man !
I wondered why the cheap piece of junk I bought only worked for 30 minutes. It was the preamp. Thanks. I would like a recommendation for 70 miles range over fairly flat terrain. I live on a farm northwest of Lubbock, Texas.
Being a marine technician, I have a very difficult time trying to get the customer to fix it the correct way 1 freaking time. But as always can't fix ignorance.....
I have 2 relateable comments!
1) Back in August I drove down to Ithaca for a few days. Cruising the back roads from Schenectady, I was amazed at how many rural homes I saw (in the middle of nowhere) using cheap, "ping-ding-ling-fing-ring-a-ding-ding" antennas on their roof's! I would love to have knocked on their doors and asked to check their reception!
2) I FEEL Tyler's anger! I deal in LED flashlights, and there are far too many consumers who waste money on cheap no-name- products that either don't work well from the box, or break soon after buying them! They don't realize what a difference there is between "generic" brands, and quality brands. I TRY to warn them...but like Tyler said ... "they buy them anyway".
Any chance we could get you to test a Bley's Antenna. The are manufactured in Palatka Florida . Thanks
No plans to test the antenna. I'm now only reviewing antennas that perform well on Amazon as they get a lot more views than random antennas like the Bleys antenna.
You just saved me 85 dollars thx for the review.
50 miles southwest of Houston Texas.. I live among a bunch of trees. What antenna would you Recommend?
There has to be a way to bypass the preamp, connect the coax where the preamp's input connects. A smashing video like always :-)
Can anyone tell me how the rotation works, mine only goes one direction, how do you keep the coax from twisting?
Aw, man. That was awesome!
I paid 120 buck for my antenna 20 years and it still works fine
I knew from the thumbnail that I would get to see Tyler smash this one! Clicked on it just for that!!! First thought : OMG, Ping Bing Ding plus rotor. The rotor improves(?) the screwing you get from the antenna.
And yet ping bing ding has a good preamp I like to use lol. The rest of their products seem to make them notorious for being bad.