Was easy to assemble and they thought of all the extra things like cable connecter and a super long cable to reach down off of the roof and wire ties. the antenna got good reception

Replaced a 100 Mile rated antenna that was 3x the size of this one in the attic. The older antenna was 25 years old and malfunctioning. The kit is easy to put together (make sure the rods that you add are pushed all the way into the red marking line for best results) took about five minutes to assemble. I took the plastic tips off the added rods once installed. The mounting pole was simple to install and fully adjustable. Signal strength is now over 10 points higher (72 to 85 on my TIVO signal meter) with this new setup! Great price and fast shipping.

Worked well at my friend's house about 45 miles SE of the Philly transmitters, his elevation is pretty good and it was convenient to mount in his 3rd floor attic. Bought another for my son but even tho he's only 25 miles from transmitters we couldn't get much signal, his house is just too low. Like they say, location, location, location. I'll try it at my sister's. I really like the size and yagi form, it's a no BS antenna.

Easy to assemble, good instructions. Works great. I mounted it in my garage attic and connected it into the coaxial distribution system in my house. I'm getting great reception in every room. Since it's so directional and inexpensive I'm installing a second antenna pointed towards other TV transmitters. I'm connecting them together with a splitter/combiner and that will feed the entire house.Update. I am so happy with these antennas that I am installing a third antenna. This way I can get TV stations from Biloxi Mississippi, Mobile Alabama, and New Orleans Louisiana. I need 3 antennas because these are very directional and the transmitters are in opposite directions from each other.

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.