McDuory TV Outdoor Yagi Antenna with Long Range Reception Capacity - Digital TV Antenna Available for Attic or Roof Mount, Long Range Digital OTA Antenna for Clear Reception, 4K/1080P/HD

This little antenna absolutely rocks! I’ll give a full review of it below, but first I want to offer a little advice to those cutting the cord for the first time and wondering which antenna to buy.There are just a couple of fundamentals you need to know. The first is, you need to know what frequencies you are actually trying to receive and tune for. Over-the-air broadcast TV as it comes to us, is basically in three segments: Low VHF (channels 2-6), High VHF (channels 7-13, and UHF (channels 14 and above). Unfortunately, you need to know this because your favorite station may or may not be broadcasting on the advertised station number. And the frequency it is actually broadcast on should directly affect your choice of antenna. You can determine this by logging on to RabbitEars.info-(your city name here). For example, Channel 19 in our market is actually broadcast on high VHF-10. Channel 3 is actually broadcast on UHF-19, etc. It usually shakes down like this: UHF channels are the easiest to receive, low VHF stations are a little harder, and high VHF channels are the most difficult. My “Great White Whale” was local channel 8 (actually still broadcast on VHF-8). It is a “high” VHF station, and has a couple other issues that made it difficult for me to receive easily.The second fundamental is which type of antenna you need to tune for the frequencies in your area. If you research and find that all the stations in your area that you care about are actually broadcast on UHF (happening more and more these days), almost any antenna will work for you. UHF stations literally need little more than some metal sticking up in the air. Low VHF stations usually require some shorter horizontal prongs or “tynes” for clear reception. High VHF stations need the longer horizontal tynes you see on some antennas, particularly older ones. The long and short (sorry for the pun) of this is, you can’t expect to successfully receive high VHF if the antenna you choose has no provisions for it. Don’t ask me how I know this – after doing much research and even chatting with a technical assistant at an antenna company, I did the WRONG thing and purchased not one, but TWO antennas that were never going to work for me before I ordered this McDuory Yagi style antenna. I do stupid things so you don’t have to. You’re welcome. As mentioned, I had previously tried two other antennas that both yielded approximately the same results. Both pulled in all the UHF stations without issue. I can’t really comment on the performance of either of these with both our low-numbered stations, 3 and 5, as both are actually broadcast on UHF frequencies. But channel 8, and to a lesser extent channel 19 (broadcast on VHF-10) were problematic. Both would come in well on a good weather day. But they would pixelate or break up in changeable weather, and in the worst weather I would just get a black screen with an error message saying “No Signal”. Hindsight being 20-20, this is not surprising since neither antenna had the long horizontal tynes needed to receive high VHF. I grew frustrated and needed to search for yet another antenna.Now, back to my review of the McDuory Yagi antenna. After searching around, I decided to try this antenna for several reasons. First and foremost, there were hundreds of good reviews with a number of them being from people who lived in mountainous regions and still got good performance. Second, it has a compact footprint and my mounting location allows the antenna to be seen from one front corner of our property. And last but not least, it was relatively inexpensive, and I had already squandered dollars on the two previous antenna choices.As is usual with Amazon deliveries, this antenna arrived before the projected delivery date. Upon inspection, the overall quality of this antenna was very good with one exception: I have to agree with the other reviewers that the fit of the longer tynes in their respective plastic sockets (they are all numbered for easy assembly) was not good and could easily be dislodged in a strong wind. I remedied this by simply drilling a 1/8” hole through each socket and tyne, and installing a pop rivet in each. If you don’t have provisions for pop rivets, I imagine some small sheet metal screws would do just fine. Other than that, assembly and mounting was straightforward and without drama.The results were exactly what I had been searching for since I started this antenna “Quest”. As expected, all the UHF broadcasts are rock solid and without issue. Channels 8 and 19 (high VHF) are also solid and steady in virtually all conditions. This past week, we had typical northeastern spring weather that fluctuated wildly between warm, cold, sun, rain, snow, and wind. In the worst of it, I only saw an occasional isolated “crackle” on channel 8, but no pixelation or signal break-up of any kind. I even believe that the picture is sharper and clearer than with the other two antennas. With what I’ve been through in all this, I’m going to call this a win!Remember cord cutters, there is no such thing as an “HD antenna”. There are only bent pieces of metal in certain sizes and shapes intended to receive specific broadcast frequencies. Everything else is useless sales hype. Do your homework and find out what actual frequencies you want to receive and buy an antenna capable of doing the job! I would recommend this antenna to anyone who is within 50 miles of the broadcast towers for the stations they want to receive.

This a good antenna. Pretty solid and seems like it will last a good amount of time. I'm putting it in my attic and not outside. It wouldn't probably be fine outside too.. but luckily I can pull in the channels by just putting it in my attic. Instructions are not the best.. but the are ok. They do have some Youtube videos to help with putting it together. I'm not sure far away from the towers.. but this antenna does a good job of picking up all the stations. I don't get dropouts and the signal seems pretty strong. I'd recommend this antenna.

Good reception from about 60 to 70 air miles to the tv station from my house. I have it mounted about 8 feet off of the roof of my house. I replaced the cheap coax wire that came with it with #6 coax and also added a pre amplifier. I have it split for 3 televisions. The reception gets pixelated if it is windy, but that is tree limb interference. I plan on cutting off a couple of limbs and cutting down 3 small trees. Good deal for the money.

Apparently others have had different experiences, but mine came double-boxed from Amazon delivery in perfect condition. (The 40 feet of coax included decent connectors and a splice barrel) Super easy to assemble (instructions were on the box so you don't need a microscope to read them). I was surprised that the longer elements were a friction-fit, but they installed firmly. No TV antenna that I have seen recently is of true "commercial" quality. That said, I felt that the unit was superior to many I have seen in the last few years in construction and design. I snapped a Kemet SR-100 (NiZn) Core over the end of the feed at the antenna to provide some isolation for the balanced feed and it works great. Keep in mind that this is a fairly directional antenna so if your stations are located all over the compass you may need a different approach. In my case most everything is in the same direction.

Nice antenna. Solid performance. Very directional however, and small adjustments are necessary to get dialed in.