30-2475 - Fringe Directional Antenna VHF-Hi HDTV 174-230MHz

I live in the mountains surrounded by mature trees, i.e., trees much taller than my house which is built on the side of a mountain. My goal was to get ABC, CBS and NBC OTA with an attic mounted antenna. After going to the antenna websites, I learned the three major networks were transmitted from three different directions with the transmitters located 9, 24 and 14 miles away respectively. However, two of the transmitters are located on the other side of a mountain. I started out with Channel Master due to the name and reviews. They recommended their Pro-Model antenna with their adjustable gain preamp and gave very little guidance. One channel had a good picture, unfortunately the other two pixilated to the point of not being viewable. After exchanging emails with the Channel Master tech support, they said I was in a location where I could not achieve what I wanted with an attic mount antenna. So, I returned the Channel Master antenna/preamp and began my quest for a replacement attic mount antenna setup.I happened upon a promising attic mount antenna while surfing around reading reviews, so I went ahead and ordered the antenna from Amazon. After the order was placed, I stumbled upon the Antenna Man on YouTube. I decided to take a chance and pay the Antenna Man for his antenna recommendation and guidance. I provided the Antenna Man with all my info. The trusses in my attic are designed such that an antenna either needs to be compact or oriented in a NS or EW direction so my antenna choices were limited. The antenna I ordered would not have been the Antenna Man’s first choice, however the truss design limited my antenna choices. The Antenna Man told me exactly which direction to aim my antenna, in my case to a closer repeater rather the main transmitter (who knew?) and use a meter to find the best signal location. Since I am using an HDHomerun tuner, I purchased the Signal GH app, which was recommended by the Antenna Man, to find the ideal location in the attic.The antenna pulled in NBC and CBS with no problems, but I could not find a location which would satisfactorily pull in all three major networks. Back to the Antenna Man. He advised me on installing the Stellar Labs 30-2475 to pull in ABC and a combiner to bring the signals from each antenna to a signal coax cable to my HDHomerun tuner. Following his instructions and purchasing the equipment through his Amazon links, I am happy to say I now have the ability to watch all three major networks plus several other channels.For my situation, I can’t say enough of the performance of the Stellar Labs 30-2475. However, it would not have been possible to achieve the outcome I did without the Antenna Man’s guidance. It was worth every penny to pay for his service, and I spent less money for the two antennas and combiner than I did for the original Channel Master which did not work for me.

We cut the cord, but are fairly committed to Jeopardy on ABC channel 7. This channel is at the low end of VHF-high. We are in Orange County (40+ miles from Mt Wilson) and the antenna is in the attic. None of the small flat antenna's worked really well. I tried a Clearstream 4, it struggled with ABC 7 (but was otherwise fantastic at pulling in UHF channels). So I thought I would try this antenna ... which is designed for VHF. Well it works absolutely fantastic. It brings in channel 7 with high signal strength and quality. This is despite at least 3 other not inexpensive options not working great. This antenna is the answer to problems with ABC 7 ... in my mind anyway.What is remarkable is that there is very little room in my attic. So I left off the front two dipoles (?) ... and that did not seem to be a problem.What is interesting. And perhaps I should have done more experiments. Is that I only get this really good performance if I place a Silicon Dust LTE filter in-line. Maybe there is interference up in my attic. Furthermore this antenna is not so great for UHF channels more generally. So for me this antenna is specializing in ABC 7, which is the main channel we watch due to Jeopardy.I am going to try and split the signal from this antenna and the clearstream UHF, to get the best of both worlds. But have not done these experiments yet.

These do pull in stations that were farther away, in a different direction, and I could not get with my other antennas. These are directional antennas, and farther away or weaker stations require more precise pointing. I have my main antenna pointing in one direction to capture the major networks and two of these pointing in different directions to capture different alternate channels. I have a Televes SmartKom 531981 Antenna Combiner to pull everything together.You have to realistic expectations though. I live in southwest PA with plenty of hill, trees, and bad weather. The stations I am pulling in with these are weak but are within 30 miles of me. I can get them most of time, but severe weather can still cause some pixelation/loss of signal.