Antennas Direct VHF TV Antenna Kit for Channels 7-13

Great product easy to install onto existing Antennas Direct Clearstream 4. This kit works to help get those low numbered VHF channels. The housing is thick plastic and should be able to hold up to the northeast weather.

This add-on made a big difference in my reception for a very small investment. Let me start out by saying when it comes to HDTV antennas, there is no magic bullet that will solve all your reception issues, but this helped tremendously for me. I have used an Antennas Direct Clearstream 4 on my roof for the last three years, and it has generally worked quite well. I also use an Antennas Direct VLA-1 line amplifier (it also has been a big help for not much money). In the late summer and fall, a few of my channels were really hard to pick up, especially during daylight hours. All my towers are about 35 miles away in the same direction, so it seemed strange that two of my "big four" network station came in fine all the time, and two others only occasionally. My PBS tower is about 8 miles away, so usually no issues there. I finally realized my ABC and FOX were UHF stations, while my CBS, NBC, and PBS were VHF stations. The Clearstream 4 is a UHF antenna. I considered adding a second antenna, but wasn't really sure what would be the best way to do that. I came across the Antennas Direct VHF add on antenna and was thrilled to see it installs easily onto the existing antenna and the price is very reasonable. I connected it to the existing antenna in only a minute or two. The build quality was actually pretty good. I thought it was quite sturdy. It basically turns your existing Clearstream 4 UHF antenna into the updated Clearstream 4v UHF/VHF antenna. The difference was immediate and drastic. The NBC station which had been spotty the last few weeks is now coming in clear all day and night. The CBS station which had not come through for a couple months is now coming in good MOST of the time, even during the day. The PBS station which sometimes was cutting out during the day is now super strong. The lesson here is, it doesn't matter how big your antenna is, or how much amplification you have, if you don't have the right antenna. The VHF retrofit kit turned my existing Clearstream 4 into the "right" antenna" Keep in mind, if you are too far from a transmitter, this antenna still won't help you much, but if you are having trouble pickup up your local VHF stations and are using a UHF antenna, you will want to check this out. Very satisfied.

The strongest channels are UHF, with content we find offensive and would never watch. Isn't that the way of the world?I have a home-built DB4 antenna that I've been using for years made from a 2x4 and copper romex wires with extra long whiskers - designed to get VHF-Hi channels on RF7-RF13 plus all the UHF channels. It has been a good design and worked well, but it isn't made for use outdoors. When leaves come in every spring, combined with the roof, line-of-sight to the metro area's antennas some 25 miles away becomes a problem.I'm not going to solve the tree issue, but by mounting a commercial db4 antenna on the roof, I can remove the HVAC and roof materials from impacting the signals.Commercial made DB4 antennas aren't for VHF, they are for UHF and work really well in my location with most of the broadcasts here. Alas, PBS and NBC still broadcast on VHF here - no other channels do.Added this antenna to the DB4 to get PBS ch7 and NBC ch10 along with their 4+ subchannels each. We are just on the edge of the VHF range, so they still aren't full signal strength, but when the leaves are gone, we'll have excellent reception. For now (summer), we have some pixelation, but much, much, less than when installed in the attic. The Antennas Direct DB4 has a spot to mount this VHF antenna and the included RJ-6 combiner merges the signals into a single coax nicely.This is one of those things I'd wish I'd bought sooner.

Why on earth is this an optional product every single internet should come with one of these? There are three frequency bands in the United States. Two VHF bands and one UHF band.Almost every antenna that is sold in Walmart, in BJ's, in Amazon, BestBuy,… are UHF only antennas. There are still TV stations transmitting on the VHF frequencies. And you cannot receive them clearly without a VHF antenna.Almost all my local TV station antennas are within 20 miles due south of me. So I bought a cheap 30 mile antenna. Some of my stations weren't coming in strong. So I upgraded to a 40 mile antenna. Some of my stations were still not coming in strong. So I upgraded to a 50 mile antenna. Some of my stations weren't coming in strong. So I upgraded to a 70 mile antenna.I am picking up stations from three counties north of me, one county West of me, and still some of my local stations within 20 miles south of me are not common and strong.That's when I decided, let me see if there's a reason these stations are not coming in. Only to find that 99% of all antennas sold in America for ATSC 1.0 are strictly UHF antennas and if your TV stations are VHF, you probably won't receive them. Yes, three of my local stations in my area a e transmiting in the VHF bands!Got this “optional” add-on, and now I'm getting over 100 TV stations, including all my locals. This should never have been an option. It should be included in every single antenna that is sold in America.[IMORTANT NOTE]Since buying this, the number of stations I got started falling till I was down to about 88 stations. I also lost some of my local stations. It turns out that since buying this 5G mobile Network has expanded in my area. It turns out 5G mobile Network interferes with the ATSC-1.0 signal.This is a simple fix by buying a 5G filter to put on your line close to the antenna. This is something else that also should not be optional. I bought one of these from Philips on Amazon. I'll review that in that purchase. Long and short, I'm now up to over 100 channels again.

Bought these in an attempt to pull several VHF stations in our area....the hope was we could pick up a VHF-Low station for ABC along with several VHF-high stations. The antenna clips onto the reflector of most commercially available UHF antennas...ours is a DB8e from Antennas Direct (via Amazon) and functions extremely well for UHF. Installation was quick however it's awkwardly positioned as centering it isn't possible without just ziptieing it onto the reflector. I did notice some signal degradation on existing stations but nothing significant. Despite a strong signal from a few stations as per tvfool I was unable to pick up the low-band station and only one of three high-band. I do acknowledge that the design isn't ideal for low-band stations (although I didn't see this noted in the description) but had hoped given the signal strength they would be sufficient. I have swapped to a homemade folded dipole tuned for the specific station we're interested in getting and now get three of four stations (the low-band and 2/3 high-band).

I am a cord-cutter and live north of Ft. Worth, Texas. Since Dallas and Ft. Worth are part of one big urban sprawl, major local network TV is broadcast from southeast Dallas - about 46 miles away from me, on the other side of two major airports and countless structures. So I was very happily surprised when an Antop "Big Mitt" bowtie antenna ($25 here at Amazon) and a Winegard "Boost" outdoor preamplifier ($50) mounted on my chimney brought in beautiful reception and dozens of channels. However, at certain times of day or in rough weather, WFAA Channel 8 would pixelate or even "go dark" completely. I discovered that WFAA broadcasts on the Hi-VHF band, which my UHF antenna isn't even rated or designed to receive. This VHF Retrofit Kit looked like the fix I needed, and it was.This is designed to snap into an Antennas Direct bowtie model, but can be used with a standard outdoor J-mast. I didn't want to mess with the height positioning of my antenna, so I extended my mast with a short section of 1-14" Schedule 40 pipe and a 1-1/4 conduit joiner. If you are not using the clips, the kit has a dished area on the back of its housing that is a little small for a real antenna mast, and includes two rather thin zip ties to secure the antenna to the mast, not a good solution for occasional high-wind areas like mine. I hacksawed a hole in the plastic pipe big enough to fit the back of the unit into, attached the unit casing to the pipe with Gorilla Glue, and embedded the zip ties in the goo. Then I masked off the connectors on the combiner and painted the whole ugly thing with almost-house-color spray paint. All one color and 30 feet in the air, those globs of glue are invisible. And now WFAA is one of my strongest channels - no break-up, no pixelation, no scratchy audio, even from a station further away than the manufacturer claims will work!

I live in an area where all except one TV station is on UHF. When I bought my current UHF antenna, I didn't know that all the stations weren't on UHF. Fortunately it's a station I don't watch often, so it really doesn't bother me to not get it's signal.When I saw this product, and read the description and reviews about it, I decided to give it a try. It wasn't very expensive, so I said what the hell, and ordered one. It attached easily, and the splitter that came with it allowed my to connect the wire from this VHF retrofit kit, and my UHF antenna, to the TVs in the house.I rescanned the TVs, and first noticed I wasn't receiving as many channels as I previously received, and I also wasn't getting the VHF channel either. I tried repositioning the antenna, hooking it up to only one TV, rescanning that TV, and still nothing on VHF. After playing around with it for a while, I disconnected it, hooked up all the TVs again, and viola, I now received all the UHF channels I had previously been receiving. I wish it had worked, but losing some of the UHF channels I regularly watch, and still not being able to get that one VHF channel that I occasionally would watch, was not a good trade off, so I returned it for a refund, which is something I very rarely do.

I am using this with a Channel Master 4 bay bowtie UHF only antenna. The VHF element and combiner work with any antenna, but you are on your own on mounting it.