This has fantastic reception--I live in an area that gets NO reception
919860
I can't sleep without noise. So I need to listen to talk radio all night long. This has fantastic reception--I live in an area that gets NO reception, no matter how strong the reception. I get my favorite PBS station all night with no static on the Sangean.
1077241
We live about 40 miles (straight line) from where the locals are broadcast, and this antenna picks them all up very clearly.  There is a small issue if you do not have it hung (or mounted) high enough in that when walking near it you can mess up the reception.  Fixed by using command strips (I must have thrown out the stickies that came with it) to my window.
2374254
I just purchased this antenna (the Extreme version) and I love it. It looks very unobtrusive; I have it taped up to our back sliding glass door, facing the direction of the local stations on the second story of a three story apartment building. Even with the blinds open, you can hardly tell it's there.

I got the Extreme because my local stations are broadcast from about 35-40 miles away, so I figured that for the extra cost it would be worth it to ensure that I was able to receive them all. The first time I scanned for channels I just left the antenna lying flat on the floor in front of the TV, so I didn't expect much and didn't get much. Once I picked it up and moved it around, I was surprised to find that I received about 60 channels! I live about 20 miles outside of Sacramento, so I expected to get those locals, but to my surprise I can also receive all of the local San Francisco channels. If I move my antenna higher on the window, I can receive all of the SF channels but am missing one Sacramento station, so I moved it a little lower and now I am getting all my Sacramento channels clearly and am missing just a couple of SF channels (which doesn't bother me as they were a bonus anyway). After very little time spent re-positioning this thing (I could probably find a way to get all of the channels if I tried longer), I get 60 channels; after taking out the foreign language and shopping channels, I still have 30 solid channels with perfect HD quality picture. For FREE.

Now all I need to do is purchase the new Tivo Roamio OTA and I can start recording like mad. With this, Netflix, and a Chromecast, cable can kiss my antenna.
2886987
if you reception is not good where you live, like my place, way to east from the city, well, reception is not good with any antenna. this one doesn't do it any better. it is a nice one, flat, white in one side, black in the another, you can just put in the wall with a couple of pins in the small holes in the corners that it already have for it.
185673
Outstanding reception.  This model was recommended by a friend and I concur - it works!
3092389
I have it in my basement.  The reception is excellent.
2287184
I purchased this antenna and believe it or not this little guy did get crystal clear channels in the right spot.  I tried many other antennas and not one of them could get a signal.  I live out in the woods (REAL FAR FROM THE CITY) so I would not recommend this for people like me because you really have to position the antenna just right to get one channel to come in and then move it around to get another channel (not for the couch potato).

I was amazed at how crystal clear the channels were, definitely (Hi-Def) so if you live in an area that can get the channels easily go ahead and get this one you won't be disappointed however, if you live in the sticks you may need a huge antenna or just give in to the cable company which is what I did.
1405727
I bought this antenna for an apartment in Gramercy Park, Manhattan, New York City.  I have no view (my window faces another building, which is ~15 feet away, brick, and is 1 story higher then my apartment (12th floor).  I skeptically set it up at the window, pointing out at an angle.  At first I couldn't find any channels, but then used my TV to "search" for channels it picked up.  To my surprise, it picked up every network channel (with perfect clarity), plus another 15 or 20 channels, half of which were in another language.  I've had to slightly move the antenna once when CBS went out, but in general, it is simply amazing to get all the channels with all the buildings around me.  I wouldn't buy this product unless it had a return policy though, since your mileage may vary with reception.  Highly recommended for NYC.
3797600
I live on the water with a very tall hill only feet behind me - reception *before* installing this was terrible.  From inside my phone and data card would attempt to talk back to towers across the water - and (on a good day) give up, revert to one bar of EDGE and at least let me do something slowly.  Phone was reading an RSSI of ~ -105 or so.  850 MHz was unusable, and 1900 MHz was OK if you could keep the signal.

*After* installing this - I put my phone into debug mode and I am seeing RSSI of about -70 to -75, sometimes -80-85 outside the room I put the internal antenna in,  Or, in non-tech terms -- THIS PRODUCT WORKS PERFECTLY!

Installation is easy, and doesn't require any special knowledge or tools.  Well worth the cost.
1491438
I ordered this antenna 6 months ago to "cut the cord" from an overpriced cable provider. I needed only to get a CBS and a PBS station from a city 50 miles away that is just on the marginal edge of the digital propagation region according to FCC signal strength maps. Although most of the 50 miles is across a bay with no tall obstructions, I was not sure it would work at this distance. After a initial test done by laying the antenna across a chair near the TV was successful in pulling in the stations, I mounted the antenna properly in the attic and aimed it at the city. The results were terrific. Not only did I get the stations I wanted, I got 6 others as well. The reception is reliably perfect, with the exception of brief periods during storms, particularly during thunderstorms. Combined with Internet streamed programming, I now have a complete programming menu for half the price I was paying the cable provider. The occasional storm outage for a few hours (about once a month so far) is a small price to pay for this saving. The antenna is a great performer in this marginal region. I would caution that it's very directional, and it will not pull in even closer stations if it's not pointing directly at them. This may not be the case in a strong signal region like a city, but I have only used it in a place with weak distant signals. As a bonus, with an added signal splitter to feed a receiver, it provides very good FM reception.
986625
I had bought a rack mount tuner from a lesser-liked brand, and it couldn't pull in half of my local stations.  The reception was awful and there was no separation of stations close on the dial.  It got returned.

I hooked this radio up to an omnidirectional outdoor antenna inside the house, and I'm getting stations I didn't even know existed.  The sound is amazing, I've never heard radio sound this good before.  I have it hooked up to my component stereo, and it sounds almost as good as my vinyl records.
3009851
I live between Baltimore MD and Washington DC.  I put one of these on my roof, pointed towards DC, and I get every network channel from both cities.  That includes stations which are >20 miles away and in random directions  At times I have had reception errors from a few stations, but my recent wiping off of the spiderwebs and re-orienting seems to have solved that.

This little antenna has given me better results than any other antenna I have tried.  I recently got a much larger, more expensive antenna in a similar (bow-tie) form factor.  I figured it would solve my rare reception errors, but instead it made things much worse across the board.
4270668
Works amazing have been testing it out in poor reception areas and still works great
5146
I'm 20-30 miles from the broadcast antennas in the nearest metropolitan area.  After trying 3 other store-bought or 2nd hand antennas, some with amplifiers, I researched the subject and ordered this one.  It doubled the signal strength on most of the channels (little improvement on one other, even moving the antenna around).  When using the TV's FM function, the amplifier has to be unplugged because it adds so much static.  Otherwise, very happy with it.  I can't use an outdoor antenna here, so this seems to the best alternative not requiring a subscription.
650712
I had high expectations for this product based on the other reviews, and I have not been disappointed. Placement is critical, but reception is so clear when properly placed. Mine is in a window facing 99% of broadcasters in the Greater Houston Metro area. The only skips I had were on one channel (the one that is furthest away) during the rainstorms we had recently. I'm using this with a converter box (the ones they sent out at digital conversion)and my reception is equal to the cable company-who I intend to drop now that I have a more than adequate replacement.  Channels received with my RCA digital rabbit ears: 23, with inconsistent and unclear reception. Channels received with the Leaf, similarly placed: 47. Minimal skips, no Borg shields.
3381212
Actually works great in our outlying area.  We are 30 miles from one city and 70 from another and get excellent reception from both.  We had the flat type that was a real pain in the a$$.  Happy to have found this, also easy to setup.
1181481
I moved into a new apartment and discovered that I got practically no reception. One bar at best, mostly all dead zones. I could get calls, and sometimes they held okay, but most of the time they dropped or people had trouble hearing me.  Since I do not have a land line phone, this was a huge problem. I purchased the Wilson Electronics Desktop Adjustable Gain Cell Phone Signal Booster because it had decent reviews and I had to try *something*.  I almost shied away because of the price, but I'm glad I didn't.

This signal booster works and works well even in non-optimal conditions. The way this works is there are three parts to the system, connected by coaxial cables.  There's the antenna which needs to be mounted outside, a box that gets the signal and a transmitter that broadcasts it. The instructions that come with the system have some pretty specific instructions for the best ways to place all three of these pieces and how far apart they need to be.

Being in an apartment complex, I'm not able to use the preferred mounting methods of putting the antenna on a pole or even affixing it to an exterior wall and I have no idea where the nearest cell tower is (all things that initially had me worried when I started reading the instructions). My only option was to mount it with zip ties to my patio railing and run the cable in under my patio door, hiding the cord and the rest of the assembly under my couch with the signal transmitter sitting on an end table. It's probably only barely the recommended horizontal distance between antenna and transmitter, and it's almost certainly not the recommended vertical difference since I couldn't mount it any higher than the railing, and yet ... it still works!

Outdoor, where the antenna is my phone only shows one bar of signal. Inside, within a certain radius around the signal transmitter I can get up to four bars. I consider that a definite win.

Because my conditions are so non-optimal the four bar range is a fairly limited circle so I was sure to place the booster where I would mostly be using the phone, but I can get at least two bars throughout most of the apartment. My bedroom is the farthest from the transmitter but I can still usually get at least one bar in most of the room.

My apartment isn't all that large, any larger than it is and I would likely still have some dead zones. So keep in mind that the larger the area you want to cover, the better you'll need to be able to follow their mounting guidelines. Also, since this is an amplifier, I'm pretty sure you need to have at least a little signal for it to work. I don't think it could have helped me if there were no bars outside and it probably would give me an even better result if there were more than one bar. But all I know is it's doing exactly what I need it to do and working out great for me. I haven't had any more problems with dropped calls or people complaining that they can't hear me.