Five Star Outdoor HDTV Antenna up to 200 Mile Long Range, Attic or Roof Mount, Digital OTA Antenna for 4K 1080P VHF UHF Supports 4 TVs Installation Kit & J Mount, ATSC 3.0 Ready

This antenna has amazing clarity and reception. Just set it up today, and the range seems pretty good. I live about 25 miles north of Houston, and most TV broadcast towers are about 15-20 south of the city. Thus, there are 45 miles or more between my house and these broadcast antennas, with all sorts of buildings in between. However, this antenna picked up 128 over-the-air channels without issue. Now, I have to trim that channel list down because I won't be watching the shopping channels and some others. The included antenna coax cable is about 40 feet long, so you may have more than you need for your installation. For my installation, I connected the antenna coax to the enclosed splitter and hooked up the existing coax which used to be the feed from my cable provider's service box. I did not need the included J-pole and mounting bracket because I attached the antenna directly to an old push-up flagpole that I had in place already. The antenna's mounting bracket tightened solidly to the top section of that pole. Assembly of the antenna is simple overall. The instructions are minimal and mostly diagrams, but are easy to follow. I do recommend using a pair of pliers to tighten the screws and wingnuts securely during assembly. The instructions aren't clear when assembling the final VHF vibrator section. The end-most VHF vibrator antenna has two (2) sections with two small "buttons" that only align one way; otherwise, these sections will not tighten to the main bar and the plastic may break. This alignment is NOT MENTIONED in the instructions. To assemble these sections of the antenna, be certain that the screw heads on both antenna sections face the same way. Doing so allows the "buttons" to align, and the sections will tighten properly with the three screws provided. Overall, I am quite happy with this antenna and would recommend it to others. There are cheaper ones, and more expensive ones, but this one works well.

The quality is good. light weight, making it easy to install. We get more channels then expected, and the picture comes in clear. However, tt does move around in the wind, and it causes some channels to go ulout sometimes.

This was a great purchase. I am using it in of the broadcast towers are located in a spread of about 10° of separation roughly 45 miles away as the crow flies. There is one moutain with a rise of about 2,500' from my location in the line of site. They do not adversely effect my reception. I have one tower located about 100° towards the rear for of the antenna. It is about 5 miles away on another mountain about 3,000' above me. It picks it up as well, I believe because of how close it is. I am receiving 60 channels. Using a flat amplified indoor antenna, I was at about 26. About my installation, I used my DirectTV mount on my second story roof after removing the old dish. I used this as opposed to the rather flimsy mount that came with the unit. I used the satellite wiring that ran into the home. One important note, you MUST remove any satellite splitters in the line, they are not compatible for OTA use. You can replace it with a standard barrel connector if running to a single TV. If running to multiple sets use either a standard Cable TV splitter or the one that may have come with your antenna purchase. I used a Spectrum Cable spliter that was in an unused cable line on mine. I did as instructed in the installation instructions and tested before installation. It worked fine, I actually gained channels when I roof mounted it though. This antenna has a pretty good gain rating of 11db on VHF channels. I have a mix of VHF and UHF here and performs well on each. As far as my Cable run. The main line runs from the antenna on the 2nd floor roof down to the foundation to the opposite side of the home to the cable/satellite junction box on the other end of the house. This is where I placed a 2 port splitter. One line runs back to the living room where the set is on the ground floor. This is a total run of approximately 80'. The second line runs to a mother-in-law cottage out back. This run has aa total length in excess of 175'. There is a bit of signal loss on this line. The result being the station being broadcast from one of the low power towers is unwatchable. No negative effect on any of the other stations. I doubt that is antenna actually will pickup stations beyond 75~90 miles unless you are on very flat terrain, but in the situation I am using it, the performance is great. Will update in the future if anything changes.

I have two of these antennas. I mounted one at the apex of my roof, between 15 and 20 feet high. I aimed it at a transmitter tower approximately 21 miles away, using a phone app to gauge the direction. It provides CBS and NBC channels, plus a bunch more, on one television in my house. I mounted the other one on a 40-foot tower that is connected to a second TV in another part of my house. This one was aimed at a transmitter tower about 37 miles away in another direction. This antenna, surprisingly, picks up all the channels that the first one receives, plus over a dozen more, including an ABC channel. The reception is remarkably good on both TVs. Installation was extremely easy (well, everything except climbing up that 40-foot tower). I am very pleased with the results. I had previously communicated with a couple of manufacturers asking for recommendations, and their solutions were going to cost me in excess of $500 for one antenna system. This solution cost me just a bit over $100 for two antennas. If you don't need two antennas, then divide that by two. I think I can also conclude that the higher you go, the better results you are going to get.

Don’t fall for the great reviews. This antenna is cheaply made and NO WAY it picks up 200 miles. I live in rural Tennessee, if you have hills and trees between your location and the towers this thing is pretty useless. I live approx 70 miles from Nashviile and approx 50 from Huntsville Al, the antenna will barely pick up a strong signal from either. This is a VERY one direction antenna, here is a comparison the five star aimed to Nashville picks up 10 stations claims to be 200 miles, the Clearstream 4max picks up 32 stations claim to pick up 50 miles but picks up further and picture is much clearer. In addition, I pick up some channels out of Decatur AL because they are more in line with Nashville towers and the Clearstream picks up in both directions. With this five star I aim towards Nashville I get 8 stations and some are pixels, towards Decatur I get 13 channels clear but nothing else, towards Huntsville I get 10 channels some clear some pixels depending on time of day, but nothing else. Beware of an antenna that claims to pick up 200 miles away unless you live out in Midwest where it is flat ground forever then it may work. You move this antenna to left or right just a tad, signal loss ! It’s hard to dial in even with using those tower apps. I would pack it up and send it back, but it ain’t worth the hassle of taking it back apart and it would probably break anyway. Cheap plastic that snaps together and very thin aluminum rods. I have it mounted outside and I don’t expect the thin plastic snaps to last in the sun. Don’t fall for the 200 mile hype , this antenna is pretty big once assembled and there are much better options out there. I didn’t use the cheap cable that came with the antenna, (I have the best quality RG6 you can get), I tried the 4-way splitter it came with and it was junk. I ended up getting a the Ideal brand from Home Depot & it worked fine with no issues. Just to see if this antenna worked better I did try a straight run with no splitting, not much difference maybe a lil less often pixelated on some channels. The actual signal strength never got higher. I got this simply because of the longer range it claims it had, it is one of the worse outdoor antennas I have tried.