TelevesDAT Series BOSS Mix LR Low-VHF/High-VHF/UHF Antenna

Let me get the bad out of the way: The people who say it will take about an hour to assemble? This is true. I'm reasonably mechanically inclined, but there are a fair amount of parts, and the instructions, although not terrible by any means, could be a touch better. So do figure it will take an hour, and you might have to read the instructions more than once to figure it all out (oh, and there are 2 different sheets...one pictures the individual parts with numbers, the other has pictorial instructions. You'll need them both!!).Ok, the bad is out of the way...now the good. Let me describe our actual situation. We live in a single story ranch style house, which is about 17 feet from ground to peak. On the back of the house is an about 20 foot pole, onto which the antenna is attached. (so not much clearance there., the antenna points at the peak of the house). The TV broadcasting antennas are all around 63 miles to our southeast, but over mostly level ground. But, that's still a long way. most of the channels are UHF, but dear old ABC Channel 5 still broadcasts on low VHF, and that, my friends, is the biggest issue!Up until now, we relied on a Winegard HD8200XL antenna (the longest range antenna Winegard makes that includes low VHF, along with a mast-mounted Winegard signal amplifier. That all feeds into a TABLO over-the-air DVR. Seriously, spent some time and effort getting what I felt was the best (or at least one of the best) antenna/amplifier combos. And, it has most worked for everything EXCEPT that darn low-VHF channel 5! Most of the other channels work well with a clear signal and no breakups at least 99% of the time. But channel 5? Good days it is fine, most days there is at least moderate signal loss and breakup, bad days? No signal at all!I was dispairing that I was going to need to find a way to get more height (to clear our roof better, but also just generally because higher should give more signal) and wasn't looking forward to the expense and effort of a tower/roof-mount/whatever. But couldn't find any other antennas that I felt would offer more improvement by itself.But, on YouTube there is this super-knowledgeable guy who goes by "The Antenna Guy". Lots of good videos and reviews of antennas. His review of this antenna (Televes 148383 DAT BOSS Mix LR Antenna W/Preamp Long Range Low-VHF/High-VHF/UHF) was a turning point for me. In his viewing area, he has a "garbage" channel that broadcasts on low VHF, just like me. He was impressed, and if the Antenna Guy is impressed, so am I.Ordered the antenna a couple months ago, but waited until I had time and the weather got better to assemble it and put it up. Finally go that done eariler this week. Asssembly? Slow, and a tiny bit confusing...but manageable. (although Televes could learn something about pre-assembling some parts from both Winegard and Channelmaster.But, without even taking the time to precisely aim it, the signal on lousy Channel 5 went from one bar to 4 bars (as good as it gets in Tablo). I am VERY impressed.Other stuff: Seems reasonably well constructed. On mast-amplifier is fed by a powered splitter inside the house (in our case, in the basement). I've include a picture of the old Winegard behind the new Televes for reference. The old Winegard was huge, at almost14 feet long and over 9 feet wide. This one is still big, but not that big.Long story short...if you are having reception problems, especially with channels on the low VHF band, this is almost certainly your best option. I wish an American company had something this good, but based on what I can find, they don't. And, I guess its Ok that we're helping our friends in Spain! I'm Ok with that! Cheers!

Members of my family are Korean, and enjoyed the programming offered through our cable provider, the tv channel broadcasts about 40 miles as the crow flies, then the cable company suddenly stopped carrying the Chanel, and replaced it with an Hispanic Chanel, after some investigation I learned that the Korean channel was part of the re pac, and went from a high powered station, to a low power station, and could not transmit far enough for the cable company to offer it.The wife knew of an antenna installer, called them, asked them about getting an antenna to receive the over the air broadcast, they said hard no go for us.I am a ham radio operator, we are all about antennas, I did more research, found antenna man on u tube, in his videos, he references online calculators that you can enter your location and see what stations you can receive with direction lines going form the station to your location, I did that, and put in that the antenna would be 30 feet in the air, like the antenna man suggested, zero stations would theoretically make it.Undeterd with my knowledge of antenna theory, I knew with the proper antenna, we would receive the low power Korean station, and every one that the major city 50 miles away were broadcasting, I bought this antenna based on the antenna man’s u tube review, it arrived in a box that seemed to be much to small for such a large antenna, well turns out it requires a lot of assembly, after watching a very detailed yt video, I build it with use of the included instructions as a refresher, it is pretty large, I was excited to prove the experts wrong, I got two of our plastic lawn chairs spread them out zip tied it to them, pointed it in the general direction, and sure enough it pulled in 60+ channels, including the low power Korean channel, I thought wow, imagine how many I will get when I get it off the ground, and up on the mast, after getting it up on the mast I now get 70+ channels, some are duplicates, but get all major network, and a lot of Chanel’s I didn’t know existed, all In super high HD quality, for free, the antenna is mostly a yagi design, that pulls in far of, or low power signals with the gain it provides, however it is direction sensitive, just rotate it a few degrees at a time to fine tune the direction, it did all this without the booster hooked up or plugged in, when I split the signal to our other tv s there was no signal, then Hooked up the booster, plugged it in, all back to perfect, on every tv in the house. If you have the room to install it, and watch a video or two on assembly, you won’t be disappointed, thank you to televes, for manufacturing this antenna, and Amazon for offering it, the wife is very happy watching her shows

This antenna is amazing, I live in Central Jersey area, I am picking up Philly, New York, Bridgeport Connecticut, Delaware. A+++++