10-Element Channels 7-13 Yagi Antenna

An antenna like this should provide a gain of about 10 dB: when I compared the SNR on my Sony Bravia, I found that I picked up a factor of 13 -- even a little better than it should have. The antenna is quite long -- 10' -- but relatively skinny, so that it fits nicely in the attic. Reception on the upper-VHF channel in our area went from marginally OK to absolutely solid, even in heavy rain -- all at a distance of 38 miles from the wimpy (50 kW) transmitter with slightly tree-obstructed LOS. Pairing this antenna with a modest-sized UHF antenna and using a VHF-UHF combiner produced excellent performance across the TV spectrum.Note: One nice thing about using such a big gun of an antenna is that you don't have to try to squeak by using amplifiers or pre-amplifiers. The aluminum in the attic provides real, solid, essentially noise-free directional gain, rather than providing gain for both noise/losses in the receiving system -- much more effective, and cheaper. In a pinch, good antennas (like this) plus a good pre-amp would be optimal, but I found I didn't need the extra electronics and I'm doing great with just passive antennas.

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Overall, I like the antenna. I am able to pick up a channel about 70 miles away behind mountains. The only problem I had was that one of the wing nuts would not screw down the balun completely and I had to put something in between in order to lock down the wire. I emailed Antennacraft with specific information relating to my installation requesting info on how to get more stations. All I got was general info and it was clear they never really read what I was working with. It was easy to assemble.

My cottage is in a difficult reception area at the edge of coverage for the CBS and NBC affiliates in my area. I replaced an older Winegard all-channel antenna with this VHF high-band channel 7-13 unit and I am very satisfied with the results. This antenna is well made and stands up well to the elements. It is also lighter than my all-channel antenna which covered the low VHF channels. Before I got this antenna I could not watch any of the VHF channels reliably after they switched over to digital broadcasting.

well built antenna with good stainless steel parts and aluminum elements. Great item for the price. My being an Amateur radio operator, with a little work and very little modification I made this an antenna for the 222 MHz band which would have cost me very more for an antenna of this size ready-made for this band.

Careful installation resulted in reception (without pre-amp) beyond what web sites claim channels broadcast to. Not sure how far it could go on a rotor with pre-amp.A note of this is that it is in the more sweet spot of TV potential. VHF high is currently a longer distance broadcast. I feel lucky to get almost 100 miles from this antenna on real 9 and real 10.The low price is however demonstrated in the minimal quality of the build. The best antenna VHF Hi I could find ran $300 so in case a storm takes this out you won't be out 3 bills.This will only get channels 7-13 in fringe use but it will also receive many stronger local vhf and uhf just fine. In fact it gets a vhf low in reverse 35 miles away often.

There is no coax balun that comes with this to convert it to coax, so the description was wrong on that part. The description has since been changed now that I pointed that out to them. It is a well-built old-school 300 ohm antenna though, and you need a balun to use it. I suggest you order one at the same time as the antenna, so you don't have to wait an additional few days or pay extra shipping later to get one. This Winegard tv-2900 is an excellent one:  WINEGARD TV 2900 82 Channel Weatherproof Transformer I received the Winegard tv-2900 balun in the mail, and installed the antenna today. It's on the top of the mast, with a CM 4228HD antenna mounted below it and they are joined with a uvsj and then into a PA-18 pre-amp. Even though the CM 4228HD is mainly for UHF (and does that extremely well), but also has vhf-hi 7-13, I'm simply too far away (60+ miles, it's a weaker transmitter, and I have to shoot through trees) from WJRT VHF 12 to receive it with that antenna. That is why I installed the AntennaCraft 10-Element Channels 7-13 Yagi Antenna. Now that it's installed and aimed for channel 12, it comes in perfectly, and I am pleased. Solid Signal treated me right through Amazon, and I appreciate it!

I suspect that the Antennacraft documentation may actually understate the gain for this antena. I'm surrounded by lots of trees, most in excess of 100' tall. This antenna delivers plenty of signal for each of the four available High-VHF channels in my area.Just because this antenna works well in my situation does not guaranty that it's right in your application. Check with tvfool dot com to see which real channels are used in your area. Many signals are broadcast on UHF channels (14 through 51) but there are plenty of examples of stations which operate in the H-VHF band (real channels 7 through 13) and a few in the Low-VHF band (real channels 2 through 6). (The virtual channel number displayed by your TV is not an accurate indicator of the real channel number. Antenna selection is not related to virtual channel numbers, only the real channel.)