Indoor Antenna Direct Antennas

[charlesrshell]

Does anyone have any experience with these two indoor Antenna Direct antennas?

ClearStream 2MAX® UHF/VHF Indoor/Outdoor HDTV Antenna with 20" Mast
ClearStream ECLIPSE® Amplified Indoor HDTV Antenna with Sure Grip

 

[boba]

What are you expecting an indoor antenna to do for you?
5-10 miles from the broadcast towers signal should be strong enough to give clear pictures. Once you put walls of buildings and terrestrial obstructions in the way ghosts and signal degredations produce limited signal quality.

 

[charlesrshell]

What are you expecting an indoor antenna to do for you?
5-10 miles from the broadcast towers signal should be strong enough to give clear pictures. Once you put walls of buildings and terrestrial obstructions in the way ghosts and signal degredations produce limited signal quality.

My daughter lives outside east of San Angelo Texas and has a Hopper 3 system. I thought I would install for her an indoor OTA antenna for just back up when they have satellite signal lose. The TV stations are westerly from her home. CBS is 133 degrees at 18 miles away. FOX is 273 degrees at 16 miles away. All the other channels fall in between them. The Hopper is located in the great room on the west side of her home. There are no mountains issue that I know of. What do you think?

 

[Jim5506]

All the channels are line of sight but with the wide spread of stations (almost 180 degrees between the west and southeast).

The indoor antenna might pull several of the stations, but you might have difficulty getting the tuner to find all of them so you could get them into the tuner's memory for later.

A rescan on the H3 OTA tuner does not remember stations found on the last scan, so if you scan and pick up CBS, you will probably loose the stations that are to the side of the antenna.

But the only way to really know what will happen is to buy an antenna from a place that will allow returns and try it.

For this job I might even look at the Winegard Metrostar with the idea that an omnidirectional antenna sacrifices signal pulling power for omnidirectionality.

 

[charlesrshell]

All the channels are line of sight but with the wide spread of stations (almost 180 degrees between the west and southeast).

The indoor antenna might pull several of the stations, but you might have difficulty getting the tuner to find all of them so you could get them into the tuner's memory for later.

A rescan on the H3 OTA tuner does not remember stations found on the last scan, so if you scan and pick up CBS, you will probably loose the stations that are to the side of the antenna.

But the only way to really know what will happen is to buy an antenna from a place that will allow returns and try it.

For this job I might even look at the Winegard Metrostar with the idea that an omnidirectional antenna sacrifices signal pulling power for omnidirectionality.

Thanks Jim5506. I think I will get it at Best Buy. They are easy to return things. I think I will also get a little in-line amp too. Attached is the info from Antenna Web.

 

[charlesrshell]

All the channels are line of sight but with the wide spread of stations (almost 180 degrees between the west and southeast).

The indoor antenna might pull several of the stations, but you might have difficulty getting the tuner to find all of them so you could get them into the tuner's memory for later.

A rescan on the H3 OTA tuner does not remember stations found on the last scan, so if you scan and pick up CBS, you will probably loose the stations that are to the side of the antenna.

But the only way to really know what will happen is to buy an antenna from a place that will allow returns and try it.

For this job I might even look at the Winegard Metrostar with the idea that an omnidirectional antenna sacrifices signal pulling power for omnidirectionality.

I don't think the Winegard Metrostar is an indoor antenna. Looks nice though.

 

[boba]

I don't think the Winegard Metrostar is an indoor antenna. Looks nice though.

Any antenna can be an indoor antenna, you just need the room in the house to place it. A RCA 751 in the attic is an indoor antenna.

 

[comfortably_numb]

Any antenna can be an indoor antenna, you just need the room in the house to place it. A RCA 751 in the attic is an indoor antenna.

I have the RCA ANT751R in my attic and it works well. At my location (45 miles from the towers) it requires pairing with a preamp, which gives me almost 100% signal strength and quality on the stations I want.

 

[charlesrshell]

Here is my OTA Terrestrial Digital DB4 with amp I installed in my attic 2007. What I want for my daughter's home is an OTA indoor by the TV type antenna, no outside or attic mount. I think I am going to try out the Antennas Direct ClearStream 2MAX® UHF/VHF Indoor/Outdoor HDTV Antenna with 20" Mast with a small in-line amp. I think it looks pretty cool looking for rabbit ears.

 

[charlesrshell]

Just tried out the Antennas Direct antenna inside my home. Pulled in 20 channels thru the OTA module to my Hopper 3. Tried it straight to the TV and got 40 channels. Farthest TV station distance to St Louis is 37 miles. Spread between the stations is 247 to 271 degrees. Haven't received the amp yet so I think it does pretty good using it indoors. It comes with a J-mount and brackets too for mounting outside. I think it will work good for my daughter's home down in Texas. Farthest TV channel to San Angelo is 18 miles. Heading to visit her in June.

ClearStream 2MAX® UHF/VHF Indoor/Outdoor HDTV Antenna with 20" Mast