Customer Ratings & Reviews

I live in a pretty flat area a large metro area...this thing at the peak of my one story roof was able to pulling 49 HD OTA channels. So it come with a pre-amp that was perfect for the run of cable outside to the the interior tv. If you plan on running to multiple tv and for some distance, highly recommend adding a power amplifier in-between the preamp and sources.

Mohu makes some of the best antennas available. I currently own a Mohu Leaf but this was my first time trying out the Mohu Beam. For those new to OTA (over the air) channels, all you really need to know is that an antenna is needed to catch those channels. Depending on where you live, you might be able to get by with a cheap option, but most folks would benefit from a powered antenna like this one. This powered antenna was easy to set up. It can be mounted on a wall (indoor or outdoor), or you can use the included kickstand to set it up on a flat surface. It can be powered using a USB port on your TV or other device. If you don't have a USB port, there is a plug included that lets you use any electrical outlet, but using a USB port on your TV keeps the wiring cleaner and simpler. Both a 10ft and 6ft coaxial cable are included so that you can use one as an extender. I live on the outskirts of a big city (San Antonio) and was able to pick up all the major networks I was looking for and a large amount of other digital channels with the Mohu Beam. I didn't have to place it in a window to get good reception. Simply placing it behind my TV worked fine. The only thing I didn't like about this device was that it was difficult to connect the coaxial cable to the antenna because of the location of the port. People with larger hands will have the most difficulty screwing it in. This antenna is a great buy, especially for those that have difficulty picking up OTA channels with a basic antenna.

Be sure to go on Mohu's website to see which antenna is best for where you live. I live on top of a hill, and I don't know if this improves the amount of channels I can get or not, but after multiple scans I consistently hit 39+ channels including ABC, Fox, and even KBCW (The CW) which is really nice! I only wish it included Food Network, Cartoon Network, Discovery Channel, some type of sports channel like ESPN/TNT, and HGTV as well, but that's asking a bit too much. And of the 39+ channels, not all of them had content. Some would be the emergency broadcast system color screen, or multiple channels of TV advertisements to buy products, and channels like HSN where you can buy products by calling the number shown on the TV. This definitely allows you to reach your basic channel needs with a variety of mixed cultural channels as well. I was able to pick up a Korean and Japanese channel as well that has cartoons which was interesting. Set up is a breeze, and the beam itself looks nice placed below, behind, or above your tv. It does the job as a basic cable provider, but if you want more channels, you'll likely need a stronger antenna or cable/satellite service. Otherwise, if you just want the news, reruns of F.R.I.E.N.D.S. CW shows, and late night shows for a 1 time payment, this does a great job! Highly recommend it.

The problem that the MOHU Beam Indoor / Outdoor Amplified HDTV Antenna is a solution for, is "How can I get effective Over The Air (OTA) TV reception in a compact flexible package?". I live 35 miles north of the multiple TV transmission towers (clustered in 3 facilities that are about 3 miles apart) that broadcasts OTA signals from the major networks into the Tampa Bay FL region. I cancelled my Cable TV service when I got a new smart TV that is fed by the home's R36 LAN wiring. It provides most of what I watch using Internet feeds. I still wanted to watch local News programs and some network shows. That too can be done with a lot of button pushing using the smart TV's internet connection, but the TV also has a Digital TV Tuner. Month's ago I first tried to access the OTA signals using the equivalent to the old style "Rabbit Ears" antenna right next to the TV. At ground level and within the concrete block walls of the house, I was only able to pick up a picture that flashed on and off every few seconds. It showed me that there was a signal out there, but it was unwatchable with that crude antenna, inside, at ground level. Like most, my house was built with coaxial cable running between most of the rooms for use with Cable Television. I used that existing wiring system to connect from the back of the TV to the same Rabbit Ears, which I moved into the garage attic where the cable TV used to enter the house. With wood instead of concrete blocks and 20' more altitude, I could now get the PBS stations which have the most powerful transmitter at the tower facility, but the other network's signals still cut in and out. I replaced the Rabbit Ears with a traditional (50 mile rated) TV antenna which I suspended in the attic rafters. With that I could receive a good picture from any of the towers if I aimed the pointed Yagi end of the antenna precisely at that particular transmitting tower. Eventually I found a compromise direction between two of the towers which allowed me to pick up signals from two towers, but not the third. That was my system until I tried the MOHU Beam Indoor / Outdoor Amplified HDTV Antenna. As an experiment I first hooked the MOHU up to the TV directly with a 6' coaxial cable and plugged in the power for the amplifier part of the MOHU. This was again behind the block walls and at ground level. I held the flat square beam antenna section in my hand as I tuned in the channels that I knew were coming from specific transmitting towers about 35 miles away. I found that even under those conditions, I could pick up a good signal and clear picture from any one of the transmitters as long as I pointed the flat face of the MOHU precisely at the tower. The wall behind the TV is the simplest mounting position for the flat MOHU, but unfortunately in my case that wall faces East not in the Southern direction of the transmitters. I got no signals with the MOHU facing East. I could have rigged something up to face South if I had to and moved the direction slightly each time I wanted to changed network towers. However, I already had the old coaxial wiring up to the garage attic, so I moved the MOHU up there. The MOHU seems less sensitive to being pointed PRECISELY at the transmitter towers compared to my traditional (unamplified) TV antenna. I was pleased to find that by pointing the face of the MOHU directly at the middle transmitter, the MOHU was still able to pick up the two transmitters to the left and right. The stations on the weakest transmitter will cut out occasionally if watching during the day, but for some reason there is no cutting out at night. One thing to remember though is that the MOHU is flexible in that it can be installed outside in the weather. The channels on the transmitter to the left (at my location) are not that important to me, but if they were, I could take one more step and install the MOHU outside on the peak of my roof facing the middle of the three towers. Without the OTA radio signals having to pass through the shingled roof, I'm sure that would be enough to get rid of the occasional blinking on and off of the weak tower's channels. Over The Air TV reception is an option most of us have forgotten or possibly never experienced. It offers an HD picture of the major Network channels and each tranmitter also transmits 3-4 secondary channels. The MOHU Beam Indoor / Outdoor Amplified HDTV Antenna is worth considering. For me it outperformed the flat antenna panels you see advertised on late night TV. You can't beat a 6' wide 7' long traditional Yagi TV Antenna mounted high on a rotatable mast outside the house, but the MOHU Beam Indoor / Outdoor Amplified HDTV Antenna would be a much more practical choice for many cord-cutters.

First of all, if you don't live in an area that you can get reception then this may not work for you. Luckily, they have a website were you can put in your address and see how far the TV station antenna is from you. My farthest one is about 15 miles and I live in an area that is surrounded by small mountains from where the antenna are broadcasting from. I currently have this set up just inside by living room next to the TV in a window. My reception has been pretty good. Bad weather can affect it a bit though, but I haven't seen too much of that...mostly just a few seconds of artifacts on the screen. I am getting about 40 local channels and I am happy about that. This is replacing the Mohu leaf (non-powered) that I have to move to different positions around the window to get certain stations, so I am very happy about getting all of them without having to move anything. I like the design of this and if you were to install it along the roof line of your house it would blend in nicely. I plan on installing this in my attic to protect it from the elements, although it appears that it will hold up pretty well even if installed outside. About my only gripe is that it is difficult to install the coax cable to the back of the antenna, but this allows a clean look from the front of it. Overall, I am very happy with this. It comes with a few different clips and screws for various mounting points. I installed the power adapter inline with the coax and the USB cable to the back of my Tivo Bolt which seems to work out pretty well.

Summary: The Mohu Beam may work well for some users in areas where you're close to the tower or have good line-of-sight, but for any kind of marginal reception situation, you'll need something heavier-duty. Background: I'm a long-time cord cutter, having walked away from cable in 2005. We've been on antenna-based over-the-air (OTA) television since then, and it's worked well for us. In the modern TV era, the ATSC television standard lets each television transmitter carry multiple program streams, so even in an area where there are only three or four stations, you can easily get more than a dozen "channels". The location where we live shouldn't be bad for television reception, as we have more or less clear line-of-sight to the transmitters, and they aren't far away (the more distant transmitter is 18mi out, the nearer transmitter is 6mi away). However, getting good, clean, reliable OTA signals isn't as easy as it looks. We've settled on a commercially-available UHF double-bowtie antenna, feeding a pair of SiliconDust HDHomeRun receivers (for DVR use) as well as two televisions. Test setup: For this test, I connected the Mohu Beam to a spare HDHomeRun 3 receiver that I have, using one of the 6ft cables included with the Beam. I placed the beam next to the current double-bowtie antenna and used the HDHomeRun signal meter app running on iOS to monitor the signal strength and quality. Note that I did NOT use the included amplifier - amplifiers add noise to the signal, which reduces signal quality, and are intended to overcome loss from cable runs, not compensate for insufficient gain at the antenna. Test results: The Beam is as sensitive to orientation as the double-bowtie UHF antenna I normally use. If the towers you need to pick up signals from are all in roughly the same direction - or are 180° apart - the Beam will probably work well for you...assuming you aim the antenna appropriately. The "example" setup, with the antenna mounted on the wall above a television, will work only if that orientation points the antenna in the right direction - otherwise, you'll need to use the kickstand and set the antenna on top of something so you can turn it to face the tower. Signal strength was disappointing; I plotted reception on two different stations in the Utica, NY market (which are both roughly the same direction from my location, though one is about twice as far away) and signal strength was barely adequate for the HDHomeRun to maintain lock. The Beam seemed to be very sensitive to multipath interference (from cars driving past) and fading (from trees and weather), noticeably more so than the double-bowtie. On the attached plots, I plotted signal quality for both the double-bowtie (magenta and purple lines) as well as the Mohu Beam (orange and blue), note that the signals from the double-bowtie are passing through a three-way balanced splitter (basically, divided by three) before getting to the HDHomeRun, yet are still noticeably stronger and more consistent. No amplifiers were used in either case. Conclusions: Once again, we find that the "distance" rating on antennas is basically meaningless, and that classic antenna designs like the UHF double-bowtie are still around because they actually work. The Mohu Beam looks attractive and appears to be well-made, but has about the same amount of gain as one of the old wire single bowtie antennas that came with your rabbit ears. It may work fine in denser urban areas closer to the transmitters, but in our semi-rural area, it just didn't have enough gain to do the job.

We recently moved into a new home. We decided not to get cable. Im glad we didnt. This HD antenna has done the trick for us, while saving us $150+ a month. We only need a few network channels, but this antenna, with its 50 mile radium was able to get us 30+, with a good portion coming through in flawless HD. Set was literally 20 second, I just attached the plug-in into the TV and ran the TV's auto program. No reason not to pick this up if you only want the basic channels. Solid, easy to set up, no problems to report!

I'll admit I was a bit skeptical - I've paid for cable TV for the last 30 years! It took me all of 5 minutes to hook the MoHu blade up to my TV and set in on my window sill for initial testing purposes. After power on the TV, switching inputs from HDMI to TV, going into the TV menu to select AIR vs CABLE for signal and then letting the TV auto-program itself - I was watching 50 channels FREE with very good sound and picture quality! I did notice a few of the channels produced a "digitized" picture with broken sound - that could be the initial placement of my antenna and signal. I noticed about 40% of the channels do not take up the full width of the TV screen, but the main local channels come in very clear! Overall - very impressed and will play around a bit with antenna position. I'm paying over $200/month for cable + internet and bet I could reduce that to $40-60 per month for just internet! This device deserves some serious consideration!

This is a really nice off-air antenna that is attractive enough to be used indoors. The package comes with several wall and tabletop mounting option, a USB-powered amplifier and plenty of cabling. The real reason to buy an amplified antenna like this is to get strong HDTV signal for a lot of free channels. My prior antenna was just a cheap set of rabbit ears (see attached photo). I tried both the cheap rabbit ears and the Mohu Beam antennas in the same exact spot connected to the same TV and compared the number of channels that came in strong enough to watch. I first plugged in the cheap rabbit ears to my Samsung 40” LCD HDTV and allowed it to scan for off-air channels. It found 33 channels of which only a few (13 of 33) came in clear enough to watch. I then swapped out that antenna with the Mohu Beam and ran the same channel scan. This time the TV found about the same number of channels, but nearly all of them (29 of 32) were clear enough to watch. In short, the antenna looks great but most importantly, it does a great job receiving local off-air HDTV channels. This will definitely come in handy during hurricane season when our satellite TV goes out but we still have generator electricity. And as a bonus, it looks nice, too.

I live in an area where one of the tv stations my family views most frequently has trouble coming in consistently. I decided to purchase new over the air antennas for the tvs in the living room and kitchen. On many nights the tv in the kitchen would not receive this station, after the station "upgraded" their tower. I am retired, the weather was pretty rainy, so I spent the better part of the week consulting reviews and technical specifications for antennas. I narrowed it down to two brands and two products. I thought that I was going to like the other antenna better. It was larger and less versatile in location than the Mohu. I tried both antennas on both tvs. The Mohu loaded more channels with better quality than the other highly rated antenna. This antenna also worked better for me because I could mount it either on the wall or place it on the table behind our large tv in the living room. I returned the other antenna and purchased a secon Mohu. The reason that I did not give the Mohu a 5 is that i am a grumpy old geezer and when mounting the antenna on the wall in the kitchen, I found that the template for making holes in the wall did not match up with the location of the mounting grooves on the product. I had to make an extra hole. Measure the back mounting grooves on the antenna instead of using the template and you should be happy with your purchase.

I like that the Mohu - Beam Premium Indoor/Outdoor HDTV Antenna is easier to move around. I wonder though can it be made into a smaller form, same shape just a little smaller. It works better than the flat for getting the picture in but I still have to move it about for certain channels. I've lost one channel CBS which has a lot of the shows I watch but after the "update" I didn't have it any longer with my old one either. I'm not getting ABC anymore also. It does work you just have to find the sweet spot for it. As with any antenna it's dependent on where the signals are coming from. I would have no problem recommending the Mohu - Beam Premium Indoor/Outdoor HDTV Antenna to anyone.

According to TV Fool, their website recommends that I should get a rooftop antenna to receive 19 primary channels (x.1) and that I will likely get 0 channels using an indoor antenna sitting on top of a bookshelf on the second floor of my home. Using this antenna ~18 feet above ground level (on top of the book case), I was able to pick up 12 primary channels (38 total) with the broadcast towers being 30 - 42 miles away. I pick up all of the major networks perfectly in HD. For now, I am very satisfied with the channels available with this antenna and do not have plans to install a rooftop antenna. I paired this with an HDHomerun tuner and broadcasting all 38 channels via DLNA on my home wi-fi. It's perfect!

This is a great antenna. I was able to pick up almost 50 stations in the St. Louis area. A bit pricey overall but thisnk it was on sale at the time for $50 so well worth it vs. the cable bill I had been paying! You won't be disappointed. Also, was able to hang behind TV, hide the wires and still picked up all those stations despite not being in or near a window!

This antenna helps you access your local channels and it provides a nice, clear picture. You even get some extra channels to watch. Easy setup as well. You can set it up right in front of your tv if you like but I placed mine just behind my tv and it works very well. I'm very happy with my purchase. Great product.

I got this antenna to see about switching to over air TV. All the Phoenix area TV towers are located in one general location on South Mountain (which is 27.1 miles from my house). I first tried in my bedroom. Placed the antenna against the south outside wall at about 7 1/2 ft high. I received about 30 various channels BUT 2 of the 5 major local channels did not (3 & 12) . I then tried it in the living room (which has a cathedral ceiling on the south side) I placed the antenna against the south side interior wall at about 10 1/2 ft high. I received about 52 various channels which did include all 5 major local channels , the only issues was the very low sound on channel 3. Picture quality was good. One other thing that I would say, as I saw when reading other reviews before I bought this antenna, the placement of the cable connection is very poor.

I am very pleased with the antenna's performance. I had been using a Mohu thin antenna and this new design brings in several more stations, several of which I watch all the time on TVs on cable but couldn't get on my two off air TVs. Also, the TV reception is much better, with clearer and sharper pictures. I have two of these antennas, one that I'm able to put on a high shelf in my garage and another one in our guest bedroom that is on an end table. The one that is mounted higher gets a couple of stations (ones I don't watch) that the lower mounted one does not. I think higher is better with these antennas but both work better than my old ones and I am very satisfied with them.

I have been using various antennas for years to watch local OTA broadcasts. I purchased this Mohu Beam for my guest room because of the design and liked that I could lay it flat on one of the Insignia TV stand shelves. It does come with a right angle attachment so you can stand it up but I could not get that to work. The area on the back of the antenna is a circle with coaxial female attachment sticking out of the center. It was extremely difficult to attach the cable by hand. I had to use needle nose pliers to make sure it was secure otherwise it would not pull in very many channels. Also, make sure the other cables and amplifier are connected in the right direction.

This is a stylish antenna that works pretty well. I had to maneuver it to just the right spot to get it to work, but I'm sure it would be better if I had it higher in my room or outside. Overall, I get a great picture and nearly 40 channels so a great purchase for the money.

Able to pull in 30 digital over the air channels with this antenna. A little awkward if using the kickstand with limited space, but overall looks very nice! Definitely recommend.

At first it looks like na is not that good but after i connect it wow it scan over 40 channels and over 18 are HD 1080p others like 720p, ill recommend this antenna is worth the money !