High-Performance 8-Element Bowtie TV Antenna from Antennas Direct

Amazon Customer: Assembly was easy. Mounting on J-pole was easy. Same channels I had before. No improvement there. Picture quality as good as my old antenna. Value is ok but needs improvement. My only problem with this antenna is Multi-Path interference. I have 2 markets in which signals come from. Some from the north and some from the south. All are 40-70 miles away with one local religious station 20 miles away. I have one panel facing north and one facing south. However, multi-path interference is an issue in my area. NBC and MY58 (65 miles out) are most affected by this issue as they will often have signal loss due to the interference. I confirmed I have multi-path interference by unplugging the panel facing north away from the NBC & MY58 towers. After unplugging that panel, signals improved. Bottom line, this antenna is great in design but needs improvement to fix the multi-path interference issue.

United States on Sep 11, 2023

Heidi R: Happy with the reception. Better than what I had before

Canada on Sep 07, 2023

Barry MacEwen: Great antenna solid well built works as expected. Easy install and looks great.

Canada on Jul 26, 2023

H.W.: Our last antenna was a home made one and was good but this one is better quality and with having the ability to aim in multiple directions is much better. We started losing channels we had with the old one and were able to get them back. Unfortunately no new ones appeared. We are in a valley. Highly recommend.

Canada on Jun 19, 2023

TommieT: Moved off of cable a few months ago and didn't care for the cost of streaming (cable with a new name.). My old single (smaller) attic antenna worked ok. But moving to OTA only, I wanted it as good as I could get.

Assembly would be easier with better instructions. Watch online video's before starting and save a little frustration.

I do have an antenna rotor and wanted to limit its need. So this antenna fit the bill as I have ONE channel that different than all the others. After some testing... Got it setup so that I did not even need to use my rotor.

The only disappointing item was this antenna was really no better at receiving OTA signals than my small antenna. My old antenna is about 75% smaller than this one. I do believe I should have seen higher signal strength and more channels. 2 small antennas probably provided the same coverage.

This is really 2 antennas and requires a combiner (probably a small signal loss.) Testing with all 8 ties pointing in the same direction. Channel scan... 76. NICE! One channel requires me to use the rotor. Moved 2 ties to point to my problem channel. Channel scan shows 72. OK.. But does seem to loss some channels when...

United States on Jun 07, 2023

Eric LittleEric Little: WE had to use a preamp with our previous antenna, but it didn't have a coax connection on the antenna end so put up the db8e without it and we still got all six Calgary stations : ) A week after the new antenna had proven itself, I took down the old tube style antenna, as I was worried that the wobbling, caused by the wind 'pushing' on the old antenna might reduce the signal strength of the new db8e antenna... lucky me... two days later we had 77 km/h winds, gusting to 91 km/h... went out the next morning, when the wind velocity was still high and the new antenna was not even wobbling... and I had checked the reception that night with wind howling and all channels had come in beautifully : ) I also had some great help from personnel at Antennas Direct in selecting this model and getting it pointed in the right direction. Putting the antenna together was like assembling a Meccano set and then the next day, up it went. Thank you Antennas Direct support team for your recommendation and thank you Amazon Warehouse for superior service and delivery : )

Canada on Nov 17, 2021

Client occasionnel: J’avais une antenne simple à 30$ avec laquelle je captais toutes les chaines de Montréal ainsi que toutes les chaines américaines diffusées à partir de Burlington (plus de vingt au total). Toutefois, dans la dernière année, j’ai perdu NBC et la puissance du signal est devenue plus instable avec la météo. J’ai donc acheté cette antenne en espérant que le signal serait plus puissant et plus stable. À ma grande déception, après l’avoir installée à la place de mon ancienne (dans l’entre-toit d’un cottage) et orientée une de ses deux antennes (et oui, cette antenne est en réalité deux antennes côte à côte qu’on peut orienter séparément et dont le signal est combiné) vers le Mt Royal et l’autre vers Burlington, j’ai eu la déception de constater que je captait encore moins de chaines qu’avec mon antenne à 30$, malgré plusieurs « rescan » d’abord sans mon petit amplificateur placé juste à l’entrée de la télé puis avec, sans différence de résultats.
J’avais donc l’intention de retourner dans l’entre-toit pour tenter d’optimiser les orientations mais les grandes chaleurs m’en empêchaient. Puis, environ 2...

Canada on Aug 24, 2020

The ToymanThe Toyman: Mounting 8 Element Bowtie HDTV Antenna 70 Mile Range DB8e

WHAT
After ‘cutting the cord’ from my ISP (Internet Service Provider) and installing Roku devices on our four TVs, in addition to Amazon Prime Video & Netflix, something was missing – local programming. Out of curiosity, I hung a 50-year-old, 8-inch, circle-type, UHF antenna on the kitchen TV and pointed it towards transmitters in Peoria, IL, about 25 miles away, and received 13 stations. Using a different, rabbit-ear antenna hung on a TV in the den, 18 channels came in clearly. Since a fair amount of work had been done concealing cable/wiring in the wall for these wall-mounted units, I wanted something that looked cleaner. Neither of the two TVs in the finished basement received local signals.

After reviewing multiple, attic-mount antenna products on Amazon & other venues, it came down to the 8-Element bowtie or a Channel Master CM-4228HD. Both units are somewhat pricey, but the (retired) design engineer in me was thinking about picking up stations 65 miles northwest (Galesburg area), and perhaps 82 miles southeast (Champaign area). Due to ignorance on my part (not understanding how the...

United States on Nov 14, 2018