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User Reviews about Antennas Direct 43XG Long Range Uni-Directional HDTV Antenna

Probably the best mid-size UHF DIRECTIONAL antenna out there. Installed at a friends house with excellent results. I'd recommend you also get a Channel Master 7777 pre-amplifier in conjunction with this or any antenna for most situations. OTA DTV is not necessarily easy to setup, make sure you inform yourself and correctly assess your situation and reception conditions. You can get great advice at tvfool . com. Forget the other sites runs by antenna industry association or govt...

As a side note, I run this antenna's larger version, the 91XG with excellent results as well. More gain but it's HUGE and not suitable for all mounting conditions.

PS: Both antennas provide excellent reception from its front lobe as well as the rear lobe. I my case I use it pointing forward at farthest emitter cluster and still get local reception coming in from the rear side of the antenna. -- Great UHF Antenna

This antenna has greatly improved my UHF reception over the Terk amplified antenna I was using. I gained about five channels as far north as Palm Beach (from Miami), but I also lost local channel 6. The instructions are not as thorough as they could be: it does not explain what to do with the small pieces molded together with the plastic parts, but it wasn't too hard to figure out where to put them. I did speak with the factory rep. after only a brief wait. I think I will need to connect the old antenna to this one to get all the local stations. There is supposed to be a Latino Channel 8 in this area that no antenna I have had has ever brought in. There is a model longer and even more powerful than this one, by the way. This model does not require the U-bolt: you connect it to the end of the mast.
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I've installed TV antennas in my second story attic for many years with good success. The distance from my home to the mountain where the Los Angeles TV transmitters are is about 30 miles and all line of sight (ignore the smog). After adding some air conditioning duct work in the second story attic, my old VHF/UHF TV antenna just didn't perform as well. I think the extra metal duct work created multipath interference problems. I could have moved the old antenna outside, but after standing on the second story roof and contemplating the fall to the lawn below, I decided to go for a new UHF high gain antenna and keep it in the attic. I read many reviews about another popular brand that had good specs, but it's construction was very poor. That lead me to pick this antenna based on it's high gain (to overcome the loss through the roof) and small height size (not much room in my attic. The mechanical construction of this antenna is very good. It only took a few minutes to pre-assemble it (snap elements to boom) before taking it up in the attic. I mounted it on a 1.25" wooden dowel and had a family member watch the signal strength indictor on our big Samsung LCD TV. It was very easy to know when it was pointed correctly. As would be expected with any high gain antenna, the beam width is very narrow. Moving the antenna just 5 degrees would make a significant improvement (or degradation) to the signal strength.

It has been a few weeks now, and a few rain storms have come and gone. I'm happy to report that we have never experienced poor signal quality with this antenna. -- Well Engineered High Gain TV Antenna