Uni-directional Outdoor Antenna
March 22, 2010 | Posted by admin 
- Receive uncompressed, over-the-air HDTV signals from local affiliates.
- Better HDTV picture than cable or satellite.
- Range: 10-50 Miles
- Designed to withstand hight widns.
- Lightweight with integrated all-weather ohm converter.
Product Description
The efficient placement of elements provides for an exceptional 14.2 dB gain with a short boom. This HD television antenna features durable all weather construction that does great in harsh weather conditions…. More >>
Categories: Outdoor Antenna | 
Tags: Antenna, Unidirectional | 
5 Comments »
Easy to assemble. No tools required – really!
Great UHF reception from within an attic. … but I had forgotten that some channels switch to VHF in June. Argh! Make sure you really only need an UHF antenna.
Rating: 5 / 5
I bought this antenna to supplement a VHF antenna. It didn’t pick up anything the VHF andenna didn’t already get and combining them made the signal worse. This antenna alone didn’t work as well on UHF as the VHF antenna! It was a little tough to put together and even harder to take apart and put in the box.
Rating: 2 / 5
The description fails to tell you that this is only for UHF Channels. This is a medium range antenna. Search Google using “Antennas Direct 42XG”. Better price here, though!
Rating: 3 / 5
Its fairly small and picks up everything with full bars! I live ~50 miles from most stations and even the VHF, blue, and violet zones come in full bars.
Rating: 5 / 5
The reviews on this antenna were spot on! Easy assembly, all hardware needed for mounting to a shaft was included. Assembly and installation couldn’t have been simpler. I needed to install an inline amplifier though (radio shack #15-1170) [...] to get a strong signal to the TV. The signal from the antenna directly to just one TV was fine, but once I split the antenna cable to feed 3 TVs the signal was very poor. A radio shack inline amplifier installed on the main feed line from the antenna (before the splitters) fixed up the signal nicely. Clear as a bell HD quality on all TV’s…
I roughly aimed the antenna in the general direction of the Sutro TV TransmissionTower here in the SF Bay Area (~ 30 miles away). No tweaking needed for a good picture… AWSOME product. It will pay for itself in 1 month now that I have cancelled my cable TV suscription (~$63/mo for COMCAST basic cable here in the SF bay Area)
Rating: 5 / 5