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The 1byone Outdoor TV Antenna offers a 360° omni-directional reception with a long-range capability of over 100 miles. Designed for outdoor, attic, or RV use, it features a built-in pre-amplifier and 4G LTE filter to enhance signal quality while minimizing interference. With easy installation and no tools required, this antenna is perfect for anyone looking to enjoy high-definition 4K channels without the hassle of traditional antennas.
Brand | 1byone |
Manufacturer | 1 BY ONE |
Package Dimensions | 30.71 x 30.2 x 14.71 cm; 1.66 kg |
Number of items | 1 |
Power Source | Corded Electric |
Batteries Included | No |
Batteries Required | No |
Manufacturer | 1 BY ONE |
Country of Origin | USA |
Item Weight | 1 kg 660 g |
T**T
Works great
Get channels from every direction. A little more powerful than our 7 yr old unit. Get 33 channels. Yes, many are duplicates, but only 3 channels unwatchable. Very, very simple to put up. No real assembly involved. Great price (47 after discount).
S**1
It works great!
To install, and I get great reception. Three only issue I have is when I was hooking up the cable to the amplifier, the plastic holding the jack broke, and now that floods loose, but I'm still getting a good signal, so all is well. I'd replace just the amp if I could, but I'm not going to the trouble of returning an entire unit just to swap it out.
K**N
Hassle to pick up channels here in Conroe Texas
It is probably a good antenna if you live closer to and know where to face it. It was pretty easy for me to put up and I am 68 yrs old. I attached it to pvc pipe and it is lite enough to hoist it on up to the roof.
D**N
Absolutely FALSE claims about reception. Please read!
Let me summarize it for you. Go to Antennaweb.org and enter your address. The stations in yellow are what you MAY get with this antenna. BUT do NOT buy this antenna. Get a ClearStream 2V or 4V. You will thank me later.Now for the gory details. I made the mistake of buying this antenna without doing three hours of research first and assuming that the "product description" was not a bold faced lie of horrendous proportions (wrong). I got it and tested it on the ground. It picked up the stations coming from a tower 46 miles away in 1080p. I thought my "100 mile range" antenna didn't receive the towers 33 miles away on top of the highest point in the state (with binoculars I can see them) because there is a thick group of pine trees in the general direction of the other towers. WRONG! With my incorrect assumption firmly in place, I proceeded to mount this on top of a two story house above the trees with a clear line of sight to the towers 33 miles away.... and I didn't pick up the stations. FAIL.I checked everything and reset everything, scanned stations over and over to no avail. I finally sent an e-mail to support. Still no response from the company BTW. Forget it. I returned it and replaced it with a ClearStream 2V which picks up all of the towers even though it's not "omnidirectional." So let me save you the trouble and research and explain how this over the air digital antenna stuff works.It doesn't matter how close or how far a tower is away from you. It has to do with the power of the transmitter at the tower (of course). The towers send out waves that carry embedded in them a digital signal but they're still waves. The strength of those waves and how many obstructions there are between you and the towers determines how far away you can pick up the signal. For this antenna to pick up towers from 100 miles away like it claims, those towers would have to be transmitting over the surface of the ocean with no obstruction and with so much power it would interrupt the migratory flight patterns of trumpeter swans and probably kill all honey bees within 25 miles of the tower. In other words it's just a bold faced lie.OK, so back to digital signals. A digital signal means that the waves transmit bits and bytes and importantly those digital signals carry with them built in signal correction so even if some of the message gets lost along the way it can be rebuilt from the pieces when it arrives. What this techy speak means is that you will not get varying grades of snowy reception like you did with old analog signals. Instead you get a full picture. The picture quality is crystal clear 1080p if you have a properly selected antenna. As signals get weaker it gets progressively lower in quality going from 1080p down to 720, 480 and ultimately to the point where you get pixelation and finally there isn't enough data to build the images. Pixelation is where parts of the picture get broken up because there isn't enough data arriving to build and/or correct the image. You'll get an image with a row of weird looking blocks or an area on the screen that has weird looking blocks.The way ALL antennas work is they receive whatever signals they can from ALL directions. ALL antennas are "omnidirectional" it's just that some are designed to optimize signals received from a single "direction." Importantly, that direction is not a straight line but an ever expanding triangle going out from the antenna. Also there is no such thing as a special HD antenna. That's just marketing garbage.In my case I have towers located at 118 degrees and 226 degrees from my house, so there is 108 degrees between them. With the Clearstream 2V I point it 118 degrees toward the weaker towers which are closer. Even though the tower at 226 is "out of the cone" it still picks up the stronger tower at 226 degrees just fine PLUS it picks up a tower located at 56 degrees which is 55 miles away basically in the opposite direction as the 226 tower.In the old days of TV you had VHF and UHF and you had two types of antennas to pick up each type of signal. You still have both bands and you will still need BOTH types of antennas built into whatever you get. One set of waves is picked up by circular shaped antennas and one set is picked up by straight lines. If the antenna you're considering doesn't have both shapes you will have poor reception in one band or the other.Now things get tricky. Channels 2-13 are VHF and channels 14-51 are UHF, BUT when things switched to digital signals, the towers changed the frequency they broadcast on. My "Channel 13" used to broadcast on analog VHF channel 13, but now broadcasts digitally on UHF FEQUENCY 17. So although it's channel number is 13 and in days of old I needed a VHF antenna to get it, now it's 17 and I need a UHF antenna. Meanwhile two other channels broadcast in VHF frequencies. Also, you don't get just a single channel. Most of these "stations" broadcast 3-5 different channels ie. 13.1, 13.2 etc.FWIW, the VHF towers were not picked up by this 1byone antenna because there are no long straight things sticking out.IMPORTANT: Antennaweb.org will tell you the broadcast frequency for each channel in your area.Finally let's talk about the actual antennas. Today's antennas are MUCH smaller than the monsters that used to be on houses but they do a MUCH better job at picking up signals so they don't need to be as big. I learned a lot about antennas but here is the summary. Any disk looking omnidirectional thing is going to have a hard time with VHF towers. Those antennas with claims of "150 mile range" that look like you should be trying to pick up the signal from an elk that has a radio tracking collar where the antenna rotates... those that show up first in the Amazon search... yeah, they're basically all the same made by the same Chinese company marketed under different brands. The rotor burns out and or the internal electronics fail within a short time. They're cheap and break easily. Do not buy them. Repeat after me "I will not buy them." One more time. DO NOT BUY THEM. Lava, Five Star, PBD, View TV.... I'm talking about those.That leads me to the ClearStream 2V and 4V. Honestly... just buy one of these, save yourself the headache and be done with this. I got the 2V with the wire grid to optimize signal pick up and it picks up towers classified as yellow, green and red on AntennaWeb.org.Now for the one star rating. Why does this antenna get 1 star? If you have an RV and you're going to set it up near a city and you just want some stations I'm sure this is fine. If you go to AntennaWeb.org and all your stations are in yellow it's likely fine as well. It delivered a picture from the one tower it was receiving. There was nothing "wrong" with the physical product HOWEVER, the product INCLUDES the product description which is supposed to provide "product information" that is at least reasonably accurate. The information about the product is just a series of bold faced lies meant to mislead consumers.No one has time to educate themselves on the intricacies of every single industry for every single product they buy. The purpose of the product information is to inform and educate the buyer and even in a "buyer beware" world when the antenna claims 100 mile reception and your stations are 33 miles away you ASSUME that no company would overstate the capabilities of their product THAT much. You ASSUME that even if it's 1/3 as good as they say you're still covered. Yet this product did the opposite. It purposely misled. It forced me to do hours of research to figure out what's wrong with a $70 product because support NEVER got back to me. Plus NOW I don't trust any of the product descriptions on these antennas so I have to understand what's behind those claims. Most importantly the product and its marketing lies caused me to spend one evening mounting this thing and another evening taking it down followed by yet another evening replacing it with something else.In short, this little antenna cost me far too many hours of my life that I will never get back and support is non existent. So, since the antenna, the company and their marketing have no regard for my time, I thought I'd spend just a little time exposing their little game and saving YOU from wasting your time. Spend the hours and hours and hours I just saved you doing something amazing for the world!Cheers.
J**H
Looks good but reception is meh
Easy to install and looks good on the side of the house. Unfortunately, the reception is as good as I had hoped.
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