Customer Ratings & Reviews

I have owned one of these types of Antennas before. Tried a couple of other kinds. Time wasted. Buy one like this and you can spend your time watching a maximum number of on-air channels. However, these antennas are a bit pricey. Perhaps if you live in an urban area you will not need this much horespower

Great product! Excellent reception where I am located. Used at two different locations and it has performed superbly. Package contained items I needed to mount appropriately. I'm going into year two shortly and it has not disappointed. The app is nice for aiming as well.

The antenna receives the local television signals quite well.

For the past five years I've been using a $39 RCA roof antenna with satisfactory results. Unfortunately it faces directly into our neighbors trees that cause occasional interference, especially during summer months. The RCA antenna is considered to be directional, meaning it has to be pointed directly towards the transmission towers for best results. Where we are located, the major network towers are mostly in alignment, but some stations are further out or in other directions, so we had to settle for the major networks, although on good days they will all come in, hit or miss. Of course a rotator would solve that problem, however it was my understanding that the Clearstream 4MAX is an omnidirectional antenna, receiving channels from all directions. I paid $128 for the Clearstream, certain it would solve all my reception problems. I will say that it did have a slightly stronger signal where the major networks are concerned, but did nothing for the stations off axis or in fringe areas. I truly enjoy watching PBS nature and science shows and was hoping to improve that channel in particular. Instead, the channel did not pick up at all. Did some research and there was mention that the antenna has some sort of built in threshold, where if a signal is weak, the antenna will simply filter it out completely, not giving you the option to watch what little signal there might be. Not sure if it's true, but I would have to go along with that theory in my experience. As for the antenna being omnidirectional, I don't believe that is the case. The Clearstream still required directioning. Stations I would have expected to pick up from outlying areas were completely filtered out, even if I faced the antenna directly at them. Hmmm. So I figured maybe it was just a temporary atmospheric thing going on and tried it for a week. Now mind you, I had the RCA mounted on the roof with a ten pole held up with a tripod, no guy wires. The horizontal design of the RCA offers little wind resistance and held up even during a few hurricanes. The vertical design of this Clearstream 4MAX essentially turns it into a kite. I held my breath as I watched it wobble around during a rainstorm. The next day I went out and designed a sturdier eave mounted system, but in doing so I lost about five feet in height. What concerned me most when I went to remove the Clearstream from the old pole, water started coming out. I gave it a shake, it was filled with rain water! That was the last straw. To me this antenna is an overpriced gimmick designed for indoor use in urban areas free from trees. Wouldn't recommend for outdoor use, nor expect it to perform as an omnidirectional antenna should. Remounted the old RCA and things were back in order, including my PBS channel. Returned the Clearstream 4MAX to Best Buy.

This antenna was purchased so we could get our local stations. It provides a very good picture - reception is better (even than our Direct TV was). The intention is to mount this outside (once the weather improves).

When Spectrum made another increase to my monthly TV service, I decided to finally cut the cord. I had an old Direct TV dish on top of my Roof with a coaxial cable already there. It was an easy task to slip off the satellite dish and slip on the ClearStream 4max antenna, utilizing the tripod already mounted on the roof. I put my address in to this website: http://www.tvfool.com/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=29 and it gave me the optimum angle on a compass to point the antenna. I used my smartphone compass to point the antenna. I got 26 channels when I did the channel set up for my TV. The reception is crystal clear, just as good as cable. I did have a few weak signals however on the TV with the longest coax line TV. There are 5 TV's connected. A distribution signal booster from "Channel Master" easily took care of that problem.

After studying the instructions to make certain I understood them, assembly was easy. I installed it in my attic and using cable splitters, I have connected 4 TV's to it. Reception is excellent, with virtually none of the signal break-up I had using the smaller antennas for each of the 4 TVs at a lower cost. Sorry I did not use this larger antenna initially.

Works great picks up tons of channels. We had one on our old house, it survived a few hurricanes, liked it so much we installed on our new house and next I cancel comcast!

We live way out in the country, this is used on our metal shop and picks up better than any antenna we have ever had

I was very skeptical about spending this much for an antenna. Put it up 4 feet above our metal roof. Started and can and got 4 channels. Turned the antenna about 20-30 degree south and now am getting 20 channels. The quality of the picture is so much better then we had with cable. Also I didn't skimp on the RG6 cable to connect to the tv. Buy it once and enjoy!

Live somewhat close to rural area, although further Fox and NBC stations are good 35+miles away. Luckily CBS, PBS and ABC are pretty close on back side of antenna. Pointed at Fox and NBC and get all stations fine, plus the usual others, CW, Grit, Laff, Timeless TV.Classic Movie channels, etc. Approx 35 channels although about 5 of them are shopping networks. TVFool.com can tell you how far away they are and which direction to point from your address. Have tried multiple antenna's but this one is best. If you can use solid copper Coax for connection between TV and Antenna that is best. Also may need a low pre-amp if you are a long distance away from antenna's. This is directional antenna so factor that in. My channels/antenna are in line both North and South for most part so works great. Need both UHF and VHF in a lot of areas, this one supports both.

Living in a rural area between two cities (one forty-five miles away and the other 70), it is hard to get all of the channels to come in. No antenna I tried brought in all I wanted, so I wasn't expecting much. I was very pleasantly surprised to find that not only did I get more channels, but the signal is better.

Good antenna for local programming. With Pre-amp able to get all local channels except ABC.

This is THE tv antenna to get! Easy to set up. Nearest towers 40 miles away. Put it up in the attic. 52 channels. No problem with anything. Crystal clear picture. Got ALL my local major networks. Football, Football, Football.... was able to split the signal to 3 different TVs. 3 games going at same time NO delays! Free TV rocks!

We love this antenna. It was easy to install and we were able to pull a lot of local channels. We do wish there were slightly more channels, but to be able to watch as many as we got for free without cable, we consider this a win!

I live in a shallow valley, and purchased this as part of getting ready to cut the cable. Best I could do was install it inside my attic. I got 20 stations, all coming in crystal clear. (including all 3 networks + fox) With the new TV I purchased, this antenna gives me everything I will need for local coverage. Great buy!

This antenna is able to receive Over-the-Air (OTA) TV signals well, from both the front and the back side, if oriented correctly. I get VHF and UHF TV stations from as far as 75 miles to my north, as well as stations about 45 miles to my south. I have so many channels available to view, it is sometimes difficult to decide which one to choose. I was skeptical of this antenna because it has such a simple, but, "sci-fi look." Some 'digital' TV antennas are designed more for looks, than performance. I am accustomed to using the older style of large"Yagi" TV antennas, with all the elements arranged along a horizontal boom. But this antenna gets all the signals I need from my rooftop installation, and does it without using an in-line RF amplifier. Assembly and set-up were simple. Its price is in line with other, modern 'digital' antenna designs, and has as good or better, performance than the others, for OTA TV signals.

Can't complain one bit about this purchase. I put the antenna in the attic easily and connected to wiring already in place for the TV. The signal has been solid and I now can watch local channels without paying a big monthly sub.

This model replaced an old very large long-range outdoor antenna on 16 foot pole. The new antenna gets all the channels that the old antenna did, even though I am using it indoors. I do live on a hill, and maybe that helps, and I do have to keep the antenna near a window. I've had it for about a month and am very pleased.

Set it up in the attic and ran the cable to the living room, about 25'. Picks up locals great, I have a brick fireplace that interferes with channels from another direction but they still come in. Only about 30mi from the local towers and I live on top of a ridge. If this didn't pick up the channels well I would be upset.