GE Indoor TV Antenna Amplifier Low Noise Antenna Signal Booster Clears Up Pixelated Low-Strength Channels HD TV Digital VHF UHF AC Power Adapter Black 42178

I am about 45 miles away from the antenna location so depending on the weather I would have pixelated reception or no signal on a couple of major network stations. After installation that has seemed to beencleared up. There hasn't been any bad weather yet but I'm hopeful. For the price, not having to get up and futz with my indoor antenna during the game, this is an outstanding value.

Antes que nada es importante aclarar, este aparato mejora la calidad de los canales que recibe tu antena. Hice muchas pruebas y te dejo mis comentarios, tengo una antena aérea Steren extreme hasta el techo en México, no la levante más que 5 metros desde mi terraza, esto mejora mi recepción ya que cualquier antena interna me daba 4 a 7 canales. Con la aérea detecta hasta 40. Sin embargo, había más de 10 canales que se veían un poco pero cada 30 segundos se cortaba la señal y volvía o se quedaba cuadriculada por segundos. Es ahí donde entra este producto, conectado a la TV recibiendo desde la antena es donde mejor funciona, probé sin antena y no toma ningún canal, con antena pero desconectado y ahí reduce la recepción, con antena pero conectada y así es como los 10 canales que estaban con pausa o errores mejoraron y ya podía verlos sin pausas. Cuando llueve aún pueden ocurrir pero de los demás canales que ya se veían bien la mejora es que cuando llueve tienen no tienen falla con lluvia leve y algunas con lluvia fuerte. En resumen, no es para detectar más canales, es para mejorar la señal de los canales que detecta tu antena, si no tienes antena interna o externa no va a funcionar. Y si tu antena no detecta los canales tampoco te va a detectar más, primero instala una antena y juega con la posición que te detecte la mayor cantidad de canales y luego si hay canales con fallas como las que te comento entonces adquiere este aparato para mejorarlos. Por cierto el alambre de la conexión a TV en mi caso fue muy grueso y para no dañar la entrada de TV tuve que ponerle un pedacito de cable con un conector hembra a hembra para que no tuviera problemas

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We bought the HDTV amplifier because only about half of the channels our TV detects were coming in reliably/without freezing. I installed it about half an hour ago, and have been watching one of the channels that was totally unwatchable since then - it has not frozen at all in that time. Achievement Unlocked. When I ran the scan, it didn't pick up any channels the TV hadn't already detected without the amplifier, but this has greatly improved the reception on all of the channels where the signal was poor.

Before I got this I was running a 70 foot cable from the antenna directly to the TV. Depending on weather I would get pixelation on 2/3 of the channels. After running new electrical wiring just for this thing, I now have a five foot cable from the antenna to this box and then the 70 foot cable going to the TV. So on to the obvious flaw. The part that goes TO the TV is a male connection. Really? Why? This is supposed to be located as close to the antenna as possible. So assuming the antenna is not sitting right on top of the TV you will need to run a cable from this device to the TV. All coax cables are male/male. So that means the very design of this silly thing adds one more connection, a female/female adapter that goes from this device to the cable that ultimately goes to the TV. Now if you've ran a short cable from the antenna to this and a longer cable to the TV you've added an extra cable and an extra female/female connector. The signal degradation you're trying to fight is now hoping over more hurdles. For me, the signal got worse with all the extra stuff in there. Before I had 36 stations and about 2/3 of them would be pixelated depending on the weather. With this thing and the splices I can only get the 5 strong stations and now even those are pixelated. That's with this device being as close to the antenna as possible while still not being outside in the weather. Three strikes. Dumb design. Doesn't work. Makes it worse.