Antennas Item ID: #968RCA ANT1000 Digital Flat Passive Ultra-Slim-Profile Antenna (White)
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Item DescriptionThis RCA Digital, Flat Passive Ultra-Slim-Profile Antenna receives free, uncompressed digital signals and supports 1080p signals. Broadcast digital TV gives you more free channels, easy-to-use effective parental controls, and enhanced services such as digital closed-captioning. To preview digital TV, go to www.StayTuned2TV.com. This antenna receives local HDTV and DTV, as well as analog UHF and VHF. The sleek white design disappears into its surroundings. RCA backs this antenna with a 1-year limited warranty. Users electronic tags:DIY Passive TV antennaCustomers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
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I have a portable NTSC/ATSC TV and sometimes take it with me out “in the field.” Okay so some posts are lonenly and late at night you want to have a “talking nightlight.” My boss gave the “OK”.
I was using the single telescopic antenna that came with the set and it did not work as well as I thought it should. So I tried this antenna because of the size and cost. Fortunately, the set has an “F” type connector for the included antenna and this was a simple screw-on replacement. Now the reception is more than acceptable, but could be a tad better. I get all the local channels rather than half of them. We are talking a difference of about 20 channels here. Antenna placement and such are things I should not have to talk about, and you DON’T need a special antenna for digital signals. They are on the same frequency band as the old signals.
Okay, it is possible to assemble this antenna the wrog way and wind up with little or no reception at all. So be careful to assmeble it so that the bare wires inside are touching the actual metal film of the antenna that is made of – inlaid on the plastic “wings”. Once that is done properly, tighten the screws snugly and you should get half decent rception. I have tried this antenna under a variety of conditions and locations and have found it’s best reception is when it is oriented vertically. Go figure.
Mounting it however is another problem as it does not have a hook or anything like that to hang it on a wall or window. I use sticky tack for putting up posters, to adhere it to a window, or a simple piece of tape on one wing to mount it vertically – for the best recption I get.
All in all I’d say it is worth the price. I struck a good balance here between portability and sensitivity and have no buyer’s remorse. I recommend it if you are in a metro area but not for out in the suburbs or countryside. It is obviously made for stronger signal areas.
I opened a box at Walgreen’s to see what this item consists of
It’s basically an old dipole antenna you would attach to the back of your stereo receiver for FM radio reception with thin plastic covering the end of the wires to give it some aesthetic appeal.
RCA should be ashamed to be selling this. David Sarnoff would hang his head in shame if he saw the company he founded pulling this.
$3 tops is what this is worth and I’m truly certain the box cost more to manufacture and print then this joke of a product
the antenna does help. Not perfectly but does add reception. Need to move it around to find better reception areas even in the same room or even with the same few inches/feet of space
I’ll keep this short and simple. This thing barely works, at all. I’ve found that you can get a signal off a Digital TV by just hooking up the cord that attaches to it to something else like a DVD player (this amplifies the signal). As long as it’s hooked up to SOMEthing, it should be able to get a somewhat decent signal. The problem with this is it’s not too reliable and doesn’t fully substitute an actual antenna. However, it does work.
I’ve found that hooking up the cord to a DVD player or something else works as effectively as this stupid ANT1000 Digital Flat Antenna. Essentially, all it is is a cord and some thin metal. That’s literally all it is! This thing is like a homemade antenna. And that point is even more revelant as you have to assemble this thing, yourself. While not hard to assemble, the instructions don’t tell you jack squat, so you have to figure out how to do it, yourself, and not knowing at first, is hard. What you have to do is unscrew the thing and use the tiny holes in the antenna’s “wings” to patch it into the center plastic part of the device, so that you are essentially screwing in the wings to the centerpiece. When you first get it in the box, nothing at all is essembled.
Besides the assembly required, the antenna (which like I said, is as good as any plastic homemade thing you would make yourself) just doesn’t work that well. It can only get about 80% of all available channels, as opposed to 100%, and the signal is constantly being broken or interrupted, probably by the weather outdoors. So you’ll constantly have to move the antenna around in order to get a clear signal. And also, some points you place will exclude some channels, meaning you’ll won’t get all of them in one placed spot in the room your TV is in. To put it in other words, this antenna makes it IMPOSSIBLE to always have 100% of your channels, as some of them will always not pick up due to where you placed it. If you move it around, you might get those missing ones back, but at the cost of the ones you had.
This is even more upsetting as I don’t even watch the “extra” digital channels available. I only watch six: FOX, NBC, CBS, ABC, The CW, and MyNetworkTV. And at some points, I will have FOX, CBS, and NBC, but not have ABC and The CW. Other times, I’ll have The CW, but not have FOX or NBC. Yeah. THIS is what you’ll have to live with with this antenna. Oh, and by the way, opening a window, or placing it outside doesn’t help it work better, either.
I guess, you get what you paid for, since this antenna is fairly inexpensive. However, I recommend you go for something much better than this cheap, homemade piece of crap. RCA’s antennas have six Signal Ratings: Standard, Good, Great, Excellent, Superior, and Ultimate. Which is really just a level of how bad-to-good they really are. This antenna ranks as “Good” which is the second-to-worst rating there is. So, that should tell you to go for something better than this. At least, go for “Excellent” condition. It may be pricey, but it’s better than wasting your money on THIS piece of junk.
Not knowing if I could get reception at all for my analog 26″ TV, but had to try with the DTV conversion coming up soon. Perfect reception with this antenna and it disappears into my decor laying flat on top of some books. I am astounded at the picture and sound quality. Excellent and highly recommend.