Antennas Direct VHF Indoor Outdoor TV Antenna Reception Accessory Kit, Weatherproof - w/Built-in Combiner, 3’ Coaxial Cable, Zip Ties, VHF-1 (Black)

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.

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 via google and decided to pay the $30 to see how it preforms. I measured 54db which is much better than my custom made job plus the UHF/VHF combiner was very handy. But what I was able to do with this antenna is easily fix it to a vertical PVC pipe with the included tie wraps and mount it in a different attic location which the home made jobber could not wiggle into. Doing this allowed me to receive a signal of 63dB !!!I also discovered that Ch 11 was being picked up from a different location about 75% off from where Ch7 is broadcasted from and I was able to split the orientation difference and receive both channels having equal signals of 60dB ! On top of it, 10 more channels came across on Ch 12. However the value of those 10 are very low to me as all 12 are religious TV.For those of you who really hate orienting antennas, to try and determine the best pointing direction in sketchy terrain I recommend you spend the money and buy a decent signal meter. The more expensive ones let you show all the channels at the same time so you can see how all channels are effected when changing the antenna direction. For me the Digiair Pro meter is still paying dividends though many of you with very simple situations can get by using much cheaper and less capable meters. If you have signals bouncing off nearby buildings, around hills and mountains’ the more expensive meters can save you a load of time. They keep you from monkeying around for hours to get the best possible results for your do it yourself system. For example I learned that the best direction to point my VHF was very different direction from the UHF even though the transmitters were in the same location. Signals bounce and are not always the strongest coming from where you think they should ! My Digiair Pro has a frequency sweep mode where I can see the effects of all channels at the same time or I can focus on a few select ones if needed.I am sure I will be buying a few more of these antennas as I am now the resident expert on cord cutting in lieu of OTA and streaming services. Long live Tablo and AppleTV. Now saving $72/month and my friends are now starting to drool at my monthly savings. I should get my investment back in about 6 months and it will be all gravy from there.

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 pixelation, but much, much, less than when installed in the attic. The Antennas Direct DB4 has a spot to mount this VHF antenna and the included RJ-6 combiner merges the signals into a single coax nicely.This is one of those things I'd wish I'd bought sooner.

I added this High-VHF to my attic-mounted UHF antenna so I could pick up channel 6 in Philadelphia. (I’m located in central NJ).I was able to add Ch 6 and all it’s sub channels with perfect reception. Surprisingly it also picked up Ch 2 from NYC, and it’s many sub channels.Note the VHF-UHF splitter is built in to the antenna. No need to purchase separately.