Antennas Direct VHF Kit - Perfect for Indoor, Attic, or Outdoor Installation

Bob: Bought this is 2020 and installed it in my attic with my AD UHF antenna. Some improvement receiving VHF stations but not a lot. I have a lot of hills around me though so my expectations were pretty low (an antenna can only do so much to overcome geography). My big issue is that it fell apart. One day my TV's suddenly stopped receiving any stations at all (typically get 40-60 stations). Went up into the attic and found the RF connector had fallen out of the housing on this unit. While I will grant it has been three years, it quite literally has not been touched or moved since it was installed. It simply detached from the internal circuit board and fell out. So I feel the solders were likely cracked when I bought it. I will reach out to AD to see of they will replace it and update this review if needed.

United States on Jul 12, 2023

TunaMan: The strongest channels are UHF, with content we find offensive and would never watch. Isn't that the way of the world?

I have a home-built DB4 antenna that I've been using for years made from a 2x4 and copper romex wires with extra long whiskers - designed to get VHF-Hi channels on RF7-RF13 plus all the UHF channels. It has been a good design and worked well, but it isn't made for use outdoors. When leaves come in every spring, combined with the roof, line-of-sight to the metro area's antennas some 25 miles away becomes a problem.
I'm not going to solve the tree issue, but by mounting a commercial db4 antenna on the roof, I can remove the HVAC and roof materials from impacting the signals.

Commercial made DB4 antennas aren't for VHF, they are for UHF and work really well in my location with most of the broadcasts here. Alas, PBS and NBC still broadcast on VHF here - no other channels do.

Added this antenna to the DB4 to get PBS ch7 and NBC ch10 along with their 4+ subchannels each. We are just on the edge of the VHF range, so they still aren't full signal strength, but when the leaves are gone, we'll have excellent reception. For now (summer), we have some...

United States on Jul 14, 2022

Eric Goethals: It did not take me long to become a fan of this Dipole.

For years I had been using my own home built antenna. Google shows tons of websites explaining how to do it using very cheap materials.

The 175Mhz channel 7 signal was just strong enough to keep me from having to buy something more professional just for that one stinking channel. It was easy and cheap enough to build. I used PCV pipe as the backbone with some steel rods to act as the antenna elements. You make sure the lengths of the rods and their separations were as recommended and then you solder the 50ohm cabling to create the actual the dipole in the center of the reflector rods. It was much easier to mount this in the attic compared to any store bought antenna. This home jobber measured a channel 7 voltage of about 52dB. Not bad. Anyway, I got tired of this setup because I could not reliably solder the cable ground to one side of the dipole so I fixed an alligator clip in its place which I had to wiggle every so many months. Well the clip finally ripped from the cable leaving me to struggle and fix things again. I wanted something more reliable.

So I found this Amazon dipole on a curiosity search...

United States on Aug 18, 2016