Antennas Item ID: #153Winegard SS-3000 Amplified Indoor UHF/VHF Antenna
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This is my second purchase of a Winegard SS – 3000. I purchased one a month ago and even at my “elderly” age, and a female, I was able to carefully read the directions and put this “out of Space contraption” together and get it connected to all the right places. I experimented with it’s placement and found that high in my room was better and I get all of the over the air channels in my area, which come from different directions, without having to get up and move it for another channel. So, I was happy to order the second one. I am very pleased.
I live in Chicago, a huge city with few hills and many TV stations, so consider this before I say:
This antenna works great! I live in an apartment building. I hooked up the SS-3000 to my HDTV, put the antenna in the window, and bingo! I got more than 30 stations in crystal clear HD! I’m canceling cable right after the World Cup (hanging on to ESPN for another month). I paid around $50 once for this antenna instead of $70 PER MONTH for cable. EASY CHOICE. Down with Cable ripoffs and monopolies. Go open air!
I also purchased the un-amplified Antennas Direct DB2 HDTV antenna, which works great as well.
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I decided back in February to cut cost and ditch paid TV. For a while I was just using standard rabbit ears, so I was only getting one band. I finally decided to buy this antenna to replace it. My number of channels doubled immediately, and with some manipulation I’m able to get all but the lowest power stations in my area. (I’m in Metro Nashville, just outside of downtown. The only channels I can never get are the NPT (8.x) channels).
That said, every part of the setup is subject to interference. From the power amplifier all the way to the antenna, things can screw up the signal. Like walking past part of the cabling, turning on the fan or sometimes just looking at it. I don’t have any quad-shield coax here so I haven’t been able to test the difference that would make. I imagine it might help a little, but maybe not. Also, if you need to move it, you’ll probably need longer cables. It’s a Y configuration, with the power amplifier (which looks similar to a 3-way splitter) in the middle. There’s a power cable that goes to the outlet, a cable to the tv and another that goes to the antenna.
It’s hard for me to adequately judge the antenna because I seem to be in an area that’s both high-signal AND high-interference. For example, I’m very close to some of the towers but I’m also in a flightpath for Nashville International and near a lot of trees. The weather seems to have quite an effect too. So, I cut a nice long length of coax for an extension, attached it with a coupler and moved the antenna to the other side of the room, where it hangs from the ceiling. That’s where it gets the best overall signal. I further boosted the signal by draping the coax over the hanging light fixture. Sometimes I can clear up a problem by just turning on the light.
That’s right, it looks like crap and my room looks like it’s been attacked by spiders who spin coax instead of webs, but I’ve got my favorite channels (most of the time) and I don’t have a monthly cable/satellite bill. So all things considered, I’m happy. Maybe next year I can afford an exterior motorized antenna, but for now this will do.
Mine worked fine for about six (6) weeks, then one morning it just quit — like someone had flipped a switch. Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. I won’t buy another one.
I saw someone from NYC write that this antenna isn’t good in the city, well I couldn’t disagree more. I went from 12 fuzzy channels to 49 crystal clear channels when I attached it to a quality converter box (Channel Master CM-7000) and it is the converter that makes all the difference in the world. If you are using an Access converter or other lesser quality device no antenna is going to help you in NYC. This antenna is amazing and I recommend to anyone in a large city to get this now.