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Terk HDTVa Indoor Amplified High-Definition Antenna for Off-Air HDTV Reception Reviews

Customer Rating:
Summary: Great!
Comment: This works so much better than the last one I bought,, and it was about half the price here on Amazon.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: As good/bad as RAC ANT-111
Comment: I tried both. Really, RCA 111 that goes on sale at BB for $9.99 does the same job without power supply.

I ended up returning this pricy, bulky Terk antenna of course.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Outstanding Indoor Antenna
Comment: The Terk HDTVa indoor antenna does an outstanding job in bringing in the HDTV transmitting stations in my area. Most of the stations are 19 to 21 miles away from my home. Luckily, they are in the same direction 159 degrees and the PBS station is 174 degrees - so I don't have to move the antenna at all to receive the signals.

I tried to go digital several months ago with the antenna I was using for analog reception. Almost all the station reception was poor. I selected the Terk HDTVa antenna and was very happily surprised how much of an improvement I got with the digital reception. It took several days to select a position for the antenna which provided the best reception. Now I get terrific reception of 19 stations. All the stations come in clear even though the antenna is on the ground floor.

I highly recommend this antenna for over the air reception of HDTV stations.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Works Great! Picks up all OTA HD stations within ~40mi
Comment: I use this antenna in the Sacramento area. It has no problem picking up my local HD stations within ~40 mi. It doesn't seem to be able to pick up stations in the Stockton area at ~60 mi away. So I'd say if you are looking for a cheap indoor antenna for stations in the 40-50mi radius, this one fits the bill.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Excellent indoor antenna but be careful to follow ALL installation instructions
Comment: This antenna looked interesting, but I read an unfavorable review by Y. Chang. He purchased this antenna (Terk HDTVa) first, but could pick up NOTHING on it. Over a period of several weeks , he tried several other antennas, and ended up recommending the Philips MANT510 antenna which has very high (50DB) gain and worked best for his situation. That nearly convinced me to go with the Philips MANT510. However, when I checked the reviews on amazon for that antenna, I found that they were generally much worse than for the Terk HDTVa. The Terk HDTVa had mostly positive reviews except for a few negative ones like Y. Chang's. I unded up playing the percentages and ordering the Terk HDTVa from amazon with free shipping.

Well yesterday I received and installed the new Terk HDTVa antenna. At first, I got the exact same result as Y. Chang stated in his review. I could pick up absolutely no stations. This was a surprise since prior to purchasing the new Terk antenna, I tried using the normal rabbit ears antenna that came with our table model 14" analog TV. The TV antenna now feeds into one of the Digital to analog converter boxes that will be required in 2009, but should work now also. With the original rabbit ears I could get 3-4 stations, but not the one (channel 7 from Detroit) that we normally watch news on. We live in a western suburb of Detroit and are probably 30-40 miles from the Detroit towers. However, the fact that the new amplified Terk HDTVa antenna performed worse than rabbit ears on the same TV in the same location was suspicious. I checked all the coax wires and verified that everything appeared to be connected properly. Finally, I noticed a red tag stuck to the metal fishbone antenna which has to be pushed into the upright part of the antenna as part of the installation. The tag (in small print) said that the fishbone antanna must be pushed in passed a mark on the red tag. Mine was about a quarter inch shy of the mark on the tag, even though it was snug and appeared to bottom out when I pushed it on. The tag warned that to get it past the red tag mark would require lots of force. So I pushed REAL hard, and sure enough the fishbone moved another quarter inch into the upright part of the antenna. After that, I started receiving most of the Detroit UHF and VHF stations, including channel 7. I am very satisfied with the Terk HDTVa antenna, even though when I first tried it, it did not work and I thought I would have to return it to Amazon.com. I suspect that Y. Chang had the same problem with his Terk HDTVa antenna that I did. It took me over an hour to trouble shoot and fix this problem.

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