Customer Ratings & Reviews

this has increased my signal 1 bar of 4 for my ota reception. .. it would been better if it would still pass thru the signal if it was not power on too .. but has been working 24/7 since purchase .. got this as open box item at a little bit of a discount too . ..

So easy to install. You only need to find where the cable enters you house and an electrical outlet. Once installed, you get less tiling and less interruptions.

This Rocketfish RF-G1179 model is a very good bidirectional amplifier/splitter for HDTVs and FM receiver. Without the splitter I could receive 4 channels, all from a local station. The FM receiver did not receive any stations. With this amplifier/splitter, I receive a minimum 37 stations (including substations) and as many as 56 channels (including substations) from 6 cities, one of which is 80 miles away. Itis almost as good as the now-discontinued Channel Master model that it replaced. Easy to set up. All channels that broadcast in HD and/or stereo, are received in HD and/or stereo. Make sure that you use high-quality cables.

Easy to use. Helped to bring in more channels and clearer picture.

I had some old Realistic powered amplifiers that were on their last leg. Not power efficient and had trouble getting a major network in the Houston area. This Rocketfish was a major upgrade on both fronts. I have 2 of them and now all my TV's pick up all the channels with no signal issues I was previously experiencing. Price is right on these as well when looking at other options. I'd like to see them come out with a larger 8 port amplifier.

I canceled my order for an outside antenna and first wanted to try an amplifier on my attic antenna. As others have suggested I connected the amplifier to the antenna lead rather than using it in the room where one of my TVs is located. This, of course, has the effect of boosting the signal to all 4 TVs which are connected to the antenna. I made a 1/2" hole in my garage ceiling so I could run the female connector into the attic, then I connected the other end to a lightweight 12' extension cord and an outlet in the garage. I still use a VCR through a converter box. Weekdays I tape BBC, Newsline, or DW news on PBS so I don't have to watch the awful broadcast network news which seems to be about 12 minutes of news crammed into a half hour of commercials. Before installing the amplifier PBS, NBC, and Fox were marginal, sometimes OK but more frequently breaking up. My digital to analog converter box showed a signal strength of 10% for PBS. After connecting the amplifier and re-scanning, the signal strength is now 50-60%. Not one problem with the signals now. I can even pick up more stations that I don't want to view. I purchased this as a certified return item. It is excellent, cheaper and much easier to install than an outdoor antenna, and saved me the hassle of crawling on my roof.

I purchased this item as an open box item. It included all the original items. I needed a little bit of a signal boost on a cable run I was using for cable tv. The cable line comes into the house hits 1 splitter then goes up a floor to another splitter and terminates in a room at the cable box. This run is around 100 feet. The cable box would get most channels in ok but specific ones would not come in at all or would come in choppy. After replacing the first splitter with the purchased amplifier and using the power adapter, I was able to get all the channels in correctly that were either choppy or missing from before. So I would recommend this item for anyone that needs a little extra signal boost on a long cable run.

Worked as advertised. I have an antenna with multiple televisions and I get signal on all of them

The rocketfish amplifier was easy to attach to my mohu antenna. It increased my channels by 15 but most were duplicates. The primary benefit was it gave me a true 5 additional channels while improving the reception on all of my channels.

I finally cut the cord with comcast. I already had a Roku TV so I have been wanting to dump my cable TV and the cost. My first step was to use the Best Buy offer for Sling TV and that provided a free Roku 2 for a second TV. Now I live about 30 miles outside of Pittsburgh where the local channels are located. If you know anything about the Pittsburgh area it has hills and trees! I picked up a Clearview 2 OTA antenna. Set it up on the ridge of the house and hooked it up to the existing cable. Local stations were in HD however when I went to split the signal it would pix-elate if there was more than one TV. (2 way splitter). Read and searched regarding antenna amps, pre amps, etc. Came across this and decided to try it and I could not be happier. Now I have 4 TV's with perfect signal and picture, even our local NBC. Remember this is not an antenna preamp so it will not amp the antenna. The antenna will still have to have an adequate signal strength. This amp compensate for the signal loss from the lengths of cable and the splitter. So the antenna is on the outside of the house, ran cable to the inside of the basement (40 feet) then to the Rocketfish. All of my cables to each individual rooms then connected to the out of the amp. Lastly it was such a good day to take all my equipment to Comcast and cancel my cable!

I have Comcast for Phone, Internet and TV. For whatever reason, Comcast can't get me a strong enough signal from the new pole across the street, even though I had a perfect signal with the old pole 3 houses down before they rerouted my feed. In order to "accommodate" the needs, they installed a "compensating filter" that improved my phone and Internet signal at the cost of having "no signal" 80% of the time on the TV. If you amp the main input from the DMARC, everything purrs. Everything works. Unfortunately, when the power goes out, the phones go down too because this amp doesn't pass any signals without being powered. (I thought it would be like 1990's amps that were dumb splitters when unpowered and boosters when powered, but I was wrong.) If you amp the low side of the compensating filter, the TV now works about 80% of the time and the phone and Internet are as good as before. If you amp the TV side after placing a regular splitter instead of a compensating filter, the TV is perfect, but phone and Internet occasionally drop out. The short answer is that Comcast is the problem, not the amp. If I had my data rack finished, I'd have a battery backup anyway, so powering the amp would be trivial. Given a rearrangement of equipment, I should see better results yet by placing the phone on the outside of the amp and moving the Internet to the powered side of the amp, so I can eliminate the compensating filter and reduce the db of loss because of the double split Comcast installed. (DMARC to 2 way - 1 to TV splitter, 1 to phone / Internet splitter)

Finally got my setup working with this amplifier. It is powered, which has allowed me to get the signal from my antenna to the rest of the house. Easy to use and great quality

I bought this device to replace the passive RF splitter that feeds the signal from my amplified antenna to two TV sets. I needed more gain in my system because the original antenna amplifier failed after several years, and the only replacement antenna I could find at a reasonable price gave insufficient output to produce stable pictures on my TV sets. The 4 db gain provided by the Rocketfish splitter was marginal in my application, so I returned it and replaced it with a ChannelMaster two-output splitter, which has an advertised 11 db gain number. I would recommend this device to a friend, provided that its limitations are understood.

We just joined the growing number of cord cutters. Purchased a long range HD antenna and knew we would need an amplifier to help push the signal thru existing coax to 4 televisions in our home. This amplifier works exactly as hoped. All 4 tv's have good strong signal with no issues. We have even had several days of bad weather since installing the system and no issues at all with reception. Love that we are no longer sending the satellite company so much money each month.

I picked up the Rocketfish amplifier to help pull in the TV station that is just out of range due to the long cable I have running from the antenna outside down to the TV in my basement. After hooking up the amp, I now get the TV station that is about 50 miles away and the picture comes in clear as I could hope for. It's also very easy to hook up.

Bought this device because when we upgraded our internet to the 400mbs package our internet kept dropping intermittently. Sometimes for hours at a time. I contacted our provider and complained and they troubleshot it and said there was nothing wrong on their end. So I decided to experiment and removed the old splitter and plugged my cable directly in to the modem. It fixed the dropping issue so I knew I needed something better than what I had. Bought and installed the Rocketfish Amplifier and have had no issues at all.

I had previously purchased the rocketfish 2-way signal amplifier several years ago. It works great. It improves the signal with additional splitters to all the TV's and other items with a built in digital tv tuner connected to my outside hdtv anntenna. I decided to purchase the 4-way amplifier and ran four coaxial cable wires going straight to my TV's and other devices. This way no additional splitters are needed. Also, the 4-way amplifier is about half the price from a few years ago. I have been very pleased with this set up.

The product enhances the signal as intended. Our TV reception is much better now. We experience less "tiling" by installing this product.

We watch over the air tv ( no cable). Every week, for some strange reason, we would lose the signal. We are about 70 miles outside Boston. We purchased this amplifier. Plugged it in , and have a much more reliable signal. I think we lost the signal on one channel once for a few minutes. Other than that we get 28 great channels. NBC, ABC, CBS, PBS, FOX, and some independent Chanel's . Unit is easy to install. Takes about ten minutes.

This amplifier is simple to install and power up. I had to use an extension cord to reach an outlet because the included cord is not long. The booster seems to help, but I had cabling issues that were causing more serious problems.