Lava Omnipro HD-8008 Omni-Directional HDTV Antenna 360 Degree - Attic or Roof Mount TV Antenna with Mounting Pole for Clear Reception, 4K 1080P (HD8008_KIT_J_FBA)

I visited several websites that map broadcast towers and your chances of receiving a signal from them. Most of them said I would receive marginal or no signal from the towers 41 miles away in Philadelphia. They also told me which direction I needed to point my antenna. I took a chance and bought this antenna anyway, based on the reviews. I installed it on my roof, grounded it appropriately, ran cable down to my TV, plugged it in and every channel from those towers came in crystal clear with no distortion. Now I have a tip for you. (Probably this is the reason for some of the negative reviews). If you are planning to use a splitter for multiple TVs, DO NOT FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS that come with the antenna. The power adapter must be installed in line BETWEEN the antenna and the splitter, not at the TV set as the instructions tell you. I figured that out after quite a bit of head scratching, thinking I had bad cable, bad splitter, bad karma, thinking I had made a terrible mistake in buying this, several trips up onto the roof to needlessly reposition the antenna, wondering why I had crystal clear signal the night before when I tested it on one TV, and had crappy to nonexistent signal the next day when I completed the wiring. Was it the clouds? Then the light bulb went off and viola... all is well. Crystal clear HD from the reportedly weakest signal channel. My old analog TV looks great too. (You will need to buy a digital to analog adapter for that). Full disclosure: I live on a hill. I'm sure that helps.

After my cable provider doubled their cable box fee, raised their sports fee and broadcast fee, and took TCM and a western channel off my plan, it was time to cut the cord. The broadcast tower sites said I would get 16 channels. The antenna is 17 feet off the ground, and there are tall trees in the direction of some of the stations. The antenna gave me 29 stations, but 2 were duplicates, and 3 others didnt have a signal strong enough to view. Still 24 was much better than expected. Know that cable providers compress their TV signals, and for a lot of stations, the antenna picture is visibly better than the cable picture quality. I have this mounted on a 1 1/4 galvanized pipe. The top 6 ft is unsupported, but very sturdy. The antenna seems well built. The instructions are a bit lacking for 2 things. When you unscrew the bottom plates, there are locking tabs. I tried using a screwdriver to push them, but a video (not from the manufacturer) showed all you had to do was pry the plate from the end. Also, there is nothing mentioned about the rubber boot. The same video mentioned he had to cut the small end of the boot off, and cut the boot along its length, to get the end of the coax cable in it. The boot wont slide over the fittings on coax cable. During the video, the guy had trouble with the boot falling down. When I installed it, I wrapped electrical tape around the boot, and then put some plumbers putty around where the boot meets the antenna. One thing, where that boot fits into the slot on the bottom, that plastic boss makes it hard to tighten the coax fitting. The hex portion of the coax fitting doesnt stick out much further than that boss when near tight. With great care, I finished tightening with a needle nose plier. Another thing was the optional installation kit. The cable with that was rg59. RG6 is a better cable, and thought if I have a 4k UHD TV, I wanted an excellent cable. RG11 is the best, but can be hard to bend and work with. Consider looking at a coax cable site that lists the coax cable sizes, and their actual sizes , and uses before you decide what you want to do. My RG6, from another supplier, was delivered in the same box as my antenna. Lastly, the antenna has a low profile. It doesnt stick out like the old style antennas from the 60's, which looked like crab traps on your roof. So far, its perfect, and better than I hoped. And, in about 2 months, the savings from the cable company will pay for the antenna, coax and mast.

I ordered this to replace an old style from 1990 Winegard that is 7 feet long. I needed something that was not so noticeable as we are putting our house up for sale. The old Winegard pulled in 36 stations from Savannah and on occasion 2 from Charleston from the opposite direction. The new antenna pulls in 34 channels from Savannah, it did get the other 2 which is WJCL ABC, however that one dropped out. I must admit it does perform, I only have it mounted about 8 feet high, the old one was 16 feet up on the roof. I believe had I put it at the same elevation it would do as good or better than the old one. When we move to the new house this will go with me and will be on the highest place I can mount it. I am not at all disappointed in this product.

This antenna was to replace my old exterior antenna whose amplifier died, that gave me great omnidirectional HD signal for many years. The amplifier and antenna were discontinued and I looked to Amazon, my favorite source for a replacement. This one sounded good in the reviews so I bought it. Before I get in to my review I should clarify that I have been a remodeling professional that has installed many entertainment centers and networked entire homes for media and internet services for 39 years. In that time I have seen an incredible decline in the quality of products available in many products today. Refrigerators used to last 30 or more years, now you are lucky if it works for the 5 year warranty period. We seem to be in an age of designed failure so they can sell you more. This product fits that mold. 1. Almost all plastic exterior with the exception of the wings and bolts. 2. During installation while tightening the coax to the antenna, the connection on the antenna broke loose from the inside of antenna and just kept spinning. I therefore could not even remove the cable, had to cut it off. Some inexperience person may say I over tightened it or i should only have hand tightened. That is not the case. For installations on the exterior of a home or in an attic the rule of thumb is hand tighten then another quarter turn with a wrench to make sure the connection is real tight. If you fail to do this the temperature changes, even here in San Diego, seasonally or from day to night will loosen the connection to the point of failure or db loss and a degraded signal to your TV. I have been doing this a long time and it was not over tightened, its a very cheaply made antenna. 3. Only received 3 of the 7 primary channels I had with my old antenna so it does not seem to be omnidirectional as advertised, tough problem with the tightening of the coax could have had an affect, but when I rotated the antenna it did pick up other channels and dropped others, so I think it just has a problem with the omnidirectional claim. 4. In line with my assertion that it is poorly made, when I went to remove the amplifier supplied, that "was" only hand tightened to the coax, I again could not remove the coax because the female screw base kept spinning like it did on the antenna. Luckily I had a pair of pliers narrow enough to grab the screw base and remove the coax instead of cutting it off like I had to do for the antenna. This is just a poorly made product in line with today's trend of making things as cheaply as possible, make great claims, and sell it for as much as you can. Sorry but this product is just poorly made. I ran over to Frys ( Because I coud not wait another day to get it from Amazon,) and bought a channel master indoor, outdoor antenna the CM3000, which just so happened to be the next generations antenna that replace the CM 2000 I had up for years. It is very solidly made, everything was easy to install and TIGHTEN without damage. I should have bought it first from Amazon instead of the Lave, because it is about $10 less on Amazon. For future antennas I will stick with Channel Master and Winegard. Two companies in the business for many decades that seem to know how to make an antenna that lasts and is easy to install. One other perk for the Channel Master CM3000 I installed. It does not require an amplifier, which is the part that went out on my old one. Hope this is helpful for most of you. FYI: The OTA signal is many times higher quality than the compressed junk cable TV and direct TV claim is 1080p. Get a tablo OTA dvr and you will have a more enjoyable and free alternative to Cable and satellite. Sports channel and tbs, tnt are available to stream from Sling TV. so you really don't need to pay over $100 a month for the channels you want.

The previous TV antenna that I had on the roof was a ClearStream 4 Indoor/Outdoor HDTV Antenna that was purchased several years ago at a local Best Buy. I bought it because it looked compact, and was made specifically for HD television reception vs. my old analog antenna. It did improve reception, and I wound up getting more channels in the Los Angeles metropolitan area (I’m in Orange County CA). The only problem that I had was with two channels. If the antenna was a little too far to the right I would get channel 7 KABC coming in fine, but then channel 4 KNBC would come in wonky/pixelated or not at all. The opposite would occur if I turned the antenna a little too far to the left. Channel 4 KNBC would come in fine, and then channel 7 KABC would be the problematic one. I could never find the sweet spot. Mount Wilson, which is located in Los Angeles County is where all of the television transmitters for the LA metro area are placed (excluding channel 24 KVCR). It is about 65 miles away. I thought, hey this is a pricey fancy HD antenna, with a 70 mile range, so I guess I’m screwed if even this antenna can’t get these two stations to come through at the same time. I even bought an amplifier and it didn’t really help. I was doing some work on the roof, so I decided to check if there were better antennas out there now. I wanted to purchase a new antenna with a more robust range than the ClearStream 4. I found the Lava Omnipro HD-8008 Omni-Directional HDTV Antenna. I researched the antenna online, and found that it is supposed to have a 125 mile range. I thought it would be nice to be able to set the antenna and forget it. I did just that. After installing the new antenna on the roof, and connecting the antenna to the included power inserter, and the power inserter to the TV, I did a rescan on the Phillips 47 inch TV in the living room, and was able to get more channels, and their sub-channels. Most of the new channels and sub-channels are foreign language such as Spanish, Vietnamese, and Korean. So, it’s definitely receiving the stations with transmitters on Mount Wilson. Thus it has a 65 mile range for sure. I now get channel 7 KABC and channel 4 KNBC at the same time without any pixelation problems. If your television has a really good tuner you will be able to pick up more channels with the antenna. I have a smaller Vizio model in one of the bedrooms, and it was able to pick up channel 6 KSFV-CD. The antenna was easy to install, but to be honest it feels cheap like if the wind were to knock it down it would break too easily. I would recommend installing it in a very overly secure manner if you are placing it outside vs in your attic. My old antenna pole was a bit wonky, so I purchased an extra clamp to make sure the wind would not tip it over. My main gripes about the Omnipro HD-8008 Omni-Directional HDTV Antenna are that it: A. Feels cheap like it will easily break. B. It’s a white color, and normally white plastic discolors, and turns into a burnt brown/yellow. It claims to have an anti-UV coating, but only time will tell. If it does turn brown/yellow quickly, I will definitely lower my rating. I would have preferred that the antenna be a black color. If you don’t have mountains or tall buildings blocking your line of site, I would recommend the Lava Omnipro HD-8008 Omni-Directional HDTV Antenna so that you can set it and forget vs. having to deal with another brand, which would require you to get back up on your roof and tweak the direction or having to deal with a switch near your TV that rotates the TV antenna for you, and then having to worry about moving parts breaking. PS. You may want to get some Rust-Oleum Never Wet Multi-Surface Spray to help minimize rain related interference.

I purchased this in an effort to bring in more TV channels than I could get with my current directional TV antenna. The TV antenna I had worked great, but I had to keep redirecting it. I installed this antenna and got exactly the same stations that I was picking up with my current antenna, however they did come in very nicely. I am right in the middle of 3 cities that all have TV stations and I was hoping to get the channels that are broadcast by transmitters to the south, north and east of my location. The stations to the north and east are 90 miles away, and was able to get absolutely nothing from those locations. The only channels I got was from Joplin which is 48 miles away. I still kept this antenna because I hooked it up to the TV in my living room and used my original antenna for the TV in the bedroom because I didn't want to crawl thru the attic and run coax, and use a splitter that would degrade the signal. So while it works good as an antenna, I found it to be not omni-directional, and it sure doesn't have a 120 mile range. By the way I have this mounted on a 25 foot antenna pole, and I am using RG-6 Quad Shield Solid Copper Coaxial Cable.

I cut cable over 2years ago and I thought I would cave by now and sign up again but I realized I like money better than I like TV. I live in Augusta/Martinez, GA. I googled which antenna was best for my zip code and this one came up on all of my searches. I went from 12 channels to 30. I had an older flat style indoor antenna but the reception was very hit & miss, this antenna gives great reception on most of the channels, some of the stations still lose connection but I've only had this installed for 1day so I haven't really played around with it. I get all of the main station (ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, CW) out of the 30 channels I would say 20 are channels I would actually watch. I get 2 crime show stations(forensic files, etc), 2 old school stations (Gilligan, andy griffith) ,2 westerns. as for set up, I don't really know, My electrician boyfriend installed it while I was at work (I was around to hear if he mumbled or cursed). his only complaint was that the coax cable it comes with is the type used in the 90's and he barely had enough of it. he said it would work better with a better coax. One thing I did notice is when he starts his truck we lose reception, we have this installed on the side of our house where the drive way is and the whole time he idled we lost TV signal but as soon as he pulled out of the driveway it worked fine until he pulled back into the driveway but as soon as he turned off the truck it was back to normal.

Great antenna and I live 50 miles in the North/West Suburbs of Philly. I grew up in the roof top antenna era before there was cable or satellite TV. Back then depending on where you lived from the broadcasting towers it would determine on how many channels you would received good or bad. The local terrain in your area would also have an affect on what channels you received and then came Cable TV and a little later Satellite TV which gave you hundreds of different channels to watch crystal clear but in the end paid TV is just to expensive today costing hundreds or more a month with all the hidden fees they don't tell you until you get that first bill in the mail. I had enough of paying for channels that I don't even watch or won't so I decided to look back into free TV with a roof top antenna. Local TV in your area has always been Free. After some research I choose the LAVA OmniPro HD-8008 omni-directional HDTV antenna and I also bought the Antenna direct 40 inch antenna J pole. After installing it on the peak of my roof top with 18 AVG coaxial wire I received 44 channels on my first TV scan. One channel did not come in that I really wanted that I thought I would get. I was advised to move to the antenna in the direction of the broadcasting tower for that channel and after doing so I received that channel but I then I lost some channels. Thinking I could get more channels I bought and tried the LAVA 2605 HD antenna and I received half the channels so I returned it. A friend told me to try a large boom antenna to get more which I did try and I purchased from radio shack. After I installed it I only got 2 channels and I had a antenna booster hooked up to it. After a month of trying multi antennas the LAVA OmniPro HD-8008 omni-directional HDTV Antenna has given me the most free channels. I did find out by moving the LAVA OmniPro HD-8008 omni-directional HDTV Antenna in different directions will gain or loss channels so it is really a semi direction antenna but I still give this antenna 5 stars because after trying other roof top antennas I receive twice to three times as many channels with the LAVA OmniPro HD-8008 omni-directional HDTV Antenna and I am now up to 50 channels. The key to this antenna is to mount it as high on your roof top that your local township allows and also use 18 AWG coaxial wire or better to get the best results. Also installing a antenna rotor would help moving it in the direction you need it. For other options for channels or movies you don't receive with an Antenna look into Streaming devices such as Amazon Fire TV box, Roku Box, G-box Matricom Midnight Mx2 and Apple TV which you view through the Internet. Some are free and some require a monthly fee but you can pick what you watch.