I can get better UHF signal as the circle portion is a bit thicker and you can swing it up and down to angle it perfectly to catch the radio waves. Best UHF antenna that I have found so far. Don't buy the antennas with built in amplifier or flat antennas. These old school antennas work the best and allow you to catch more stations. You can also use network tv tuners such as HD Homerun for a second/third antenna to create an array to use for hard to get TV stations. I get stations 45 miles away with these type of antennas placed near the ceiling of 1 story home.

I haven't had cable TV since the '80s. We've gotten by using TiVo's, over-the-air broadcast, and in the last few years we've added in streaming. The only issue has been some of the stations we receive in the Sacramento area either come in poorly or not at all. My niece lives here in town as well, and due to price increases she's cancelling her cable other than for Internet use. I was setting up an indoor antenna for her TV and found that her area seems to have the same problem stations we have, farther south where we live. Curious about this issue I did research and found the two problem stations we both had issues with chose to continue broadcasting their signals on the VHF band of TV frequencies when TV went "digital," while every other broadcaster in our area (and there are a lot!) moved their signals into the UHF band. To make a long story short: The majority of indoor TV antennas, whether "boosted" or not, have been designed to pick up and concentrate on the UHF band. That leaves signals on the VHF band somewhat left out with those antennas. The answer, it seems, is that good-old-fashioned "rabbit ears" TV antennas are making a comeback. Of course that's only if stations in your area are still broadcasting on the VHF band. Why would stations choose to stay on the older VHF band? Well, I found the answer is "cost." VHF equipment is much less expensive to buy, operate and maintain. That's why our local PBS station is using it, as well as the local ABC affiliate (apparently having been bought buy Disney didn't mean a pay raise). I also found that the VHF band carries signal farther and needs less energy to broadcast to do so. Why didn't all the broadcasters continue on VHF? Who knows. What's important is to get both bands to come in well, you really need two types of antennas, basically one for each band. Although, I admit I'm only using one antenna on our big living room TV, and believe it or don't, that is an old "RCA" brand of rabbit ears! it works great! In my den I needed a boosted antenna for the UHF band and had to add this Phillips rabbit ears model to get all of the stations. It works really well, and the price was great! Highly recommended! What was once old is new, again!

Cheap and works great, picked up 57 channels, some not coming in wonderfully, but most have pretty solid picture, especially considering how old so much of the content is on some stations. It also supports NextGen(ATSC 3.0), though from what I've read most are dragging their feet about implementation of it.Knocking one star off for the built in cable. I would have been fine paying extra for an included cable that is removable. It works, and luckily was long enough that it could reach where I wanted to put it, but it's also quite thin, so may not be great at shielding EMI/RFI for some people.

I was looking for an inexpensive antenna for residents of my apartment complex, that could pull in the five networks (CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox, CW) and their subchannels. I found one with this antenna.The antenna is boxed in one piece; there's no assembly required. It's design allows one to set it on a table, or hang it from a wall. The UHF element (the circular piece) can be moved up and down on a 180-degree arc.. The VHF dipoles can be extended to the desired length, and they can swivel and rotate to the desired position. The coaxial cable is about 5 feet long and is medium grade in quality. It's not detachable from the antenna. It can be extended with another coaxial cable and a connector.The broadcast/transmission towers where I live are in three locations: 2 miles SE, 17 miles SE, and 45 miles W. The antenna got no signal from the towers 45 miles west. In fairness, the Clearstream Eclipse also gets no signal.One of the stations that is two miles away broadcasts on low-VHF (which are channels 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6). This antenna did pick up that channel clearly, once the antenna was placed properly. The dipoles are NOT long enough to receive low VHF very well; I suspect that the station comes in because it's very close to me. To test that, I connected an six-foot RG-6 coaxial (the kind used by cable companies) without an antenna, and it also pulled in the station. A paper clip put into the coaxial jack got the station, but with some pixilation ("noise"). I suspect that the coaxial acted as a dipole. The bottom line is that this probably won't get low-VHF very well if the station is more than 15 miles away. The Clearstream Eclipse also got the low-VHF station, and again, the cable (which is RG-6 quality and which is about 15 feet long) may have been the main reason.I can't say if the antenna gets high-VHF (frequencies 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13), because there are none in the 20-mile radius.Most stations operate on UHF bands/frequencies 14 through 36. Note that your station may read as a VHF station (example: WGN-9 in Chicago, which was on VHF 9 before stations went digital in 2009) but probably broadcasts on a UHF band (WGN broadcasts on UHF 19).The antenna pulled in all area channels broadcasting on UHF very well, with clear pictures, and no pixilation. Your mileage may vary. The Clearstream Eclipse had slightly higher signal numbers (as can be expected from an antenna costing almost four times as much), but the Philips antenna's signal numbers were good.Overall, I would guess that the Philips will pull in UHF-band stations up to 25 miles away, and VHF band stations perhaps 10 to 15 miles away. If you live farther from the towers, you'll probably want a stronger indoor antenna. If those doesn't work, you'll probably need an outdoor antenna. Everybody's situation is different, because reception depends on distance, how high up the antenna is located, the terrain (i.e. hills), and objects in the way (i.e. trees, buildings). It's probably best to purchase from a retailer who allows easy returns (i.e. Amazon, Walmart).To find out what frequency your stations broadcast at, go to rabbitears.info or antennaweb.org .

Works on some channels, definitely not on all.

Excellent . Works great for our guest bedroom. I get 15 local channels on it . Great price.

Performs as claimed.

In downtown Vancouver, in the West End, I am able to get very good quality signal by pointing this antenna towards the North. Here is the list of channels I got keeping the antenna indoors, 5 feet above the floor, and near my sliding door and about 3 stories up (surrounded by big buildings):2-1 CBUT-DT (CBC)12-1 KVOS-HD12-2 MOVIES12-3 MeTV12-4 CATCHY12-5 START12-6 MeTV+12-7 STORY12-8 HEROES12-9 TOONS32-1 CTV (CIVT)

Es de un tamaño relativamente discreto, con buen diseño y funciona bien aquí en México sintonizo 21 canales digitales incluidos los de la SEP, lo ocupo para ver los canales más comunes aquí en México para las noticias. Los adquirí a un buen precio 189 pesos y fue rápida la entrega.

Cumple sin problemas su función. La pantalla recibe todos los canales de tv abierta

For such an inexpensive item, it works very well.I actually bought a more expensive antenna which does not work as well as this one, so guess which one we are using.