Four Element Directional Outdoor FM Antenna

There are fewer and fewer dedicated outdoor directional FM antennas being manufactured for the United States. I have the mother of all FM antennas as my reference. An APS 13 with an average gain of over 9db and a Front-Back ratio of over 30 db. I had to rebuild it due to storms. However, placement is key. If there is no signal reaching the antenna then it does not matter how great the gain is on the antenna. I have learned to walk along the roof and locate where the strongest signal is for the desired station you are trying to receive. Have you ever been in your car in your driveway and notice your favorite FM distant station will disappear as the car is moving from one spot to another spot. The key is finding that spot where the signal reaches. Generally, height is your friend. With all this being said, I have found this antenna to do a very good job, overall and discovered it is picking up my favorite distant low powered alternative rock station better than my APS 13. I am sure the APS 13 would pick up the same station better if I relocated the APS to the same location as the Stellar labs but the Stellar does allow me to listen to multiple stations that are on the same frequency. Install a rotor. And good to go. For fun I build my own antennas and if you want to make this antenna have more gain you can add additional directors. I am ecstatic with this antenna! ❤️

Nice little antenna at a really fair price. Great for cleaning up fm stations within 75 miles or so or for the beginning DX'er who wants to explore what's out there. High quality, polished aluminum. Seamless .388" (9.85mm) elements that don't whine in the wind or ice up inside. .715" square aluminum boom and a unique mast mount which will allow you to angle the antenna upwards (for whatever reason) or install flat as we normally do. You do not have to totally disassemble the mount to attach the antenna to a pole, or tower mount, or some strange side bracket...nice if you're a tower climber or stuck having to fasten it one handed.No need for a 300 to 75 ohm matching transformer on this thing...it's built into the driven element in a nice waterproof housing. Even the boom and the elements are waterproofed by end caps. This unit is pretty well thought out. It goes together real easy despite and instruction book that makes no sense. One note: Put the mast clamp on the boom near the balance point, NOT where the drawing shows it.If you are a DX'er or antenna experimenter you'll have fun with this setup. If you want to add on to it, don't buy a bunch of aluminum somewhere. Just buy a second antenna. It's cheaper and you'll get everything you need including the hardware you need to attach the elements to the boom. One word of warning...once you stretch the boom out to 90-100" you'll get some droop so slip some 5/8" metal tubing inside the boom for some strength. I bought 3 and I'm currently building a vertically stacked pair of 6 element units.

I bought this thinking I could get the station I listen to in my car while driving to work. I also bought an antenna rotor to allow me to fine tune the directionality of the antenna, and an in-line amplifier to increase the signal gain. The antenna is mediocre but doesn't have quite enough gain to bring in the really weak signals unless I switch to mono FM. I may try a larger antenna like the Winegard 8200U to see if I can get better results but that behemoth is almost three times as long and more than twice as wide (like 14'L x 8'W) as this one which is maybe only 5'L x 3.5'W. I will say that this one I bought is not bad, it's easy to install, and won't catch the wind as bad as the Winegard. The rotor and the amplifier have been essential for this one so that I am not going to send it back. By the way, if you buy the RCA rotor, it does not come with control cable and you have to order that separately, And, if you plan on an exterior mounted antenna, be sure to get exterior grade control cable, not the "in wall" grade because it won't stand up to UV degradation of the jacketing.

This antenna I purchased from Newark back in 2020 first one was damaged. They sent another one. I never could get it working stereo did not get any stations it up 20 feet in the air. I decided to try this again. This time I ordered from Amazon. It seems to do very well I put it up today 11/23/22. It seems to pull in stations over 130 miles away. But I think there is some Tropospheric Ducting going on. Maybe it will still do good on bad days or bad nights because an indoor antenna does hardly anything. I actually connected to my HDTV. I got one stations and its sub stations UHF 29 Actually broadcast on channel 7. So, I guess it could be a good VHF Antenna also.