With a mix of VHF and UHF channels at a range of distances from 8 mi to nearly 50 mi and nothing between us but clear blue sky my home seemed like a good candidate for this omni-directional amplified antenna; and even before the price reduction it was easily the best deal I could find.

It's smaller than I expected and made almost entirely of plastic. It may hold up for a little while outdoors, but I don't expect long life from it in the harsh Oklahoma sun with my network transmitters being nearly due south. If the wind doesn't kill it first then the near-constant UV will probably do it in.

Instructions are incredibly sparse, and a mild paraphrase might say "hook it up to your TV, then scan your channels." Like others I can't tell what the intended orientation is. From the included tabletop stand you could infer that it's supposed to be horizontal and with the narrower "point" toward the signal source, but that's barely more than an educated guess. I'm currently using it in the horizontal orientation with mixed results.

A quick indoor test when I unpacked it brought in 8 DTV channels on two UHF frequencies. I had high hopes when I mounted it in its permanent home outside below the old (abandoned) satellite dish. Alas, it now pulls in only one UHF station from that spot, from (somewhat ironically) the farthest transmitter.

I intend to keep experimenting with placement to see if I can get a decent broad-spectrum result from this unit, but I'm going to keep shopping for something a little more powerful and a lot more durable. In the interim this is a perfectly acceptable value for our rental home.

I have installed about 2 dozen of the 25 mile Monoprice outdoor antennas in the rural area and had great performance out of them. When this antenna was released I purchased a couple to test. From my office I gained 10 more channels and average signal strength for channels increased between 10 and 20 percent. Instructions are space and packaging is very non-descript but the product performs well.

I ordered two of these for indoor use. The TVs are on different floors, and have different access to over-the-air signals. The downstairs VHF signal was weak and only improved after moving the antenna around a lot and finding a very specific location/orientation about 6 feet above the TV on the wall. It doesn't look good there, so I'll probably mount outside since the TV is near a window screen I can run the cable through.

Upstairs the TV is mounted high on the wall, and I was able to pull in most stations, at first, but then lost some of the channels over the next few days. Since this TV is not near a window, an outdoor mount is not an option, so I donated to a relative and went back to my UHF/VHF bunny ears antenna, which works just fine there.

I would say that for indoor use, I get better reception with my AmazonBasics Ultra-Thin Amplified Indoor HDTV Antenna - 50 Mile Range, which is also easier to mount on the wall.

Remember distance and orientation from DTV towers and obstacles between the TV and the towers make a huge difference in reception, so what works for me might not work fo you.

Overall I would keep this as an outdoor antenna due to it's hard plastic case and difficulty hanging on the indoor wall.

I used this to replace a set of rabbit ears stated the have a shorter range than this antenna. My rabbit ears picked up a few channels. This antenna pulled in less than 50% of the channels of the rabbit ears.

It seemed to work well. I was able to receive 30 channels with great reception, although I had to re position the antenna for certain channels. Not sure if I was able to get all channels in a 50 mile range or not, but the channels I did get came in very clear.

It works as expected. I haven't fully determined which channels I get and how far away they are, but I get more than the other TV with a store-bought antenna on it does. Good enough for me.

once I had it pointing out the right window. I wasn't getting anything at first because I set up (to test) at a south facing window and pointed it toward the south east. Then I Google searched where to point a TV antenna for my area and found I need to point directly east. Set up at an east-facing window, reran the TV scan for channels and started getting hits immediately. I'm receiving many more channels than I expected.

The TV towers are about 35-40 miles away from my home. Everything comes in clear. I may go ahead and cut the cable completely or I may just leave this as back up in the event my cable service gets interrupted.

The amplifier tucks in nicely behind the TV on top of the TVs wall mount.

Am planning to mount this permanently in the attic. I will update this review if I have any issues there.

Well pleased. Pick up about 40% more channels than I was.

I live in Norco and have the unit set up inside the house. It picked up 165 channels, most of which I don't watch. But it does pick up CBSHD, NBCHD, KTLAHD (the WB), KCALHD, KTTVHD (Fox) and KCOP (CH13) crystal clear. Watched the super bowl last weekend crystal clear. Well worth the $23.

Don't know why others had problems with this antenna I hooked it up, and then ran auto channel search on my tv because if you don't the tv won't work with the antenna and when it was done I not only got my local channels from the Detroit area but also ones from Toledo.

The rocks often block various signals so was not sure it would work at my house. It would not work downstairs, but I took upstairs and connected the antenna to the balcony. I was jumping for joy! Picked up 30 stations!

I got the 25 mile version of the antenna as I live closer to the broadcast towers. I have a finished basement where my TV and I set the antenna up in one of the basement windows. Connected up to my TV and it scanned and picked up all my local broadcast channels and then some. So far so good with the antenna.

This is a fine product, especially for the price. Easy to install and actually picks up quite a few channels

I have a TV in the middle of my house where I can't use bunny ears or use one of those sheet-of-paper indoor antennas. My first thought was to attach this to my unused satellite antenna., but after looking at how close it was to the power lines (not to mention how high up it was), I decided I liked it better attached to the chain link fence. I was still able to hook it up to the satellite cable to distribute the signal through my home.

I didn't try out the amplifier that came with it - because I already had one hooked into the system from a time we had cable.

Reception was so much better than I thought it would be. Depending on the TV, I received 20-50 channels - including all the locals on all TVs which is what I actually wanted. I was able to remove the sheet of paper type antennas from a couple of TVs, this was always as good or better. Stations in my area are 20-30 miles away - but the placement of the antenna is partially obstructed by the side of the house, the neighbor's house, and several trees.

Without a doubt worth the price.

I had rabbit ears and a large leaf antenna but still couldn't quite get ABC clearly (could get all others). The ABC tower was approximately 35 miles away. When I installed this in the living, I still couldn't get ABC and the quality of NBC/Fox was worse and inconsistent (CBS always good no matter what). I gave up and installed this on the basement tv, where I picked up CBS/Fox/NBC decently.

I later began using the rabbit ears in the garage, connected to coax that was running to the living room tv. Rabbit ears and leaf both gave me inconsistent results and neither gave me ABC. I decided to give this one a shot in the garage and it shockingly picked up all four, including ABC for the first time. Signal strength for ABC is strong enough for 1080i with no pixelation or stuttering. The garage is an integral garage below the house so I did not have high expectations and am very happy now.

Great HDTV Antenna i got two so far is working good
if you want to save money try one ..

It works so that's its biggest plus. The mounting is well, confusing and the online manual doesn't exist. So you guess at what the pieces and supposed to do and hope that the thing doesn't explode or catch fire when plugged in. No, seriously, it works great and I get decent signals on all channels when I placed the thing up in my attic.

Bought several of the monoprice antenna's and out of all of them, this one is my favorite. However, I am still not getting all the channels that I would like to. I'm starting to think that my area is a very difficult one to accommodate.

Also enjoyed all the accessories that came with it, making it very easy to mount outdoors.

For the price, it's a pretty decent antenna. Got most of the channels I expected to get, though there were a couple of channels that I couldn't pick up unless the antenna was placed in a very inconvenient spot.

I think the nature of antennas cause poor reviews and poor perceived performance. This one works, it does and looks as it is described. I still cannot pull in the one channel I want which is 35 miles away but I also cannot get any other antennas to do this either. Going into the box with the others as this does not warrant a return at $15 and it works.

I have used almost every Monoprice antenna and the large flat remains by far the best. This one comes in second. I do not know what they mean by active. It has an amplifier but its not a steerable antenna. I presently use this amplifier hooked to the Monoprice large flat plate and get the best performance.

A lot of time and effort for nothing. Set this up and no matter how I move or reposition or adjust the angle, it does not beat a pair of good bunny ears. Wanted to get the antenna out of my line of sight which is why I bought this, but it's not getting the job done. Seriously mediocre.

Disappointed with number of channels able to receive,
digital-22 or antenna -10. I live in the Bay Area.., Contra Costa County, approximately 20 to 30 miles SF/Oakland. But unable to receive SF or Oakland channels, Receiving Sacramento channels.. Better than nothing

fair -poor, just about 35 miles from the stations. Would not buy if more then 20 miles

pitiful,no where near 50 miles,and we are flat ground

I bought this antenna to replace an Amazon Basics antenna that advertises a 35 mile range. The Amazon antenna received every single channel in my market. Placed in the same location, and various others throughout my house, this antenna receives ten less channels, including my local Fox, NBC, and PBS channels. I'm extremely disappointed and replacing it with a Mohu Leaf.

Can't get it pick up a signal. I live 10 miles from a major city.

Replaced cheap antenna in window with this and do not get more channels. Gets same channels as 20 mile range one.

Really doesn't help me cut the cable. I pick up about 33 stations, practically all of them seem to be junk channels. One really important channel I can't pick up is Public Television. Had I known it would not pick up that channel, I wouldn't have ordered this antenna.

I live in North San Diego county and was unable to get any of the major networks, I tried with the power unit on and without the power unit...it worked the same either way...I was only able to get a couple of foreign language channels, I guess this will be going back...Thanks anyway Monoprice.

We live 15 to 20 miles away from our main tv stations and can not get reception from them. To be honest, we can only pick up two stations. We had your older outside model and we could get stations from many miles away. I would not recommend this antenna.

This is a very flimsy and cheaply built unit ... but more importantly, it gave me wholly unsatisfactory results. I bought it to replace an inexpensive, unpowered antenna from another manufacturer, in hopes that it would live up to its claim and pull in two local HD stations that the unpowered unit couldn't quite catch. Didn't work, though, and in fact this unit picked up fewer local stations than my older, unpowered unit did. Off to Goodwill for this one.

I'm very disapointed in this antenna. I have a couple passive, 35 mile antennas from ama zon basics that provide much better reception. I tried just using the amplifier with one of these other antennas, but that had caused the signal to degrade. So from my experience, the antenna was poor quality and the amplifier were poor quality. I live less than 20 miles from the broadcast antennas, so I really shouldn't be having any issue with reception.

Being in the mountains I needed an antenna that could pull in the digital stations in my area. I was hoping this would work, and it did not...not even one channel, while my other non powered antennae pulls in 6 stations...There are 12 stations available, however this antennae did nothing....

DEFINITELY NOT RECOMMNED THIS PRODUCT
Right from box it was either DOA or working as designed with no sound and nothing but snow.
All connections were double checked and snug.

ASking for RMA

My expecations frim this antenna were modest since I'm around 35 miles from the major TV stations . This antenna performamce was a absolute complete disappointment. It barely received 10 channels..Not even the major broadcast networka. in comparison I later purchased a leaf antenna which receives at least 40+ channels including most major broadcast networks. If I could give 0 stars It would be more representative of this products performance. I ended up tossing the entire kit into the trash. My various other purchases (mainly cable related items) from monoprice have all worked out perfectly.

Unit only received 7 stations and I live in a suburban area. Will not even receive the local network affiliates. Horrible product that I would not recommend to anyone. Worst money I have ever spent!