Review on 📡 Outdoor Attic Antenna: GE 29884 by Dustin Miller

I live in a suburb quite far from the city and have a lot of radio antennas. I bought a GE 29884 antenna from Revain a few weeks ago. Along with the antenna, I bought a PCT 4-port Cable/HDTV/Internet Amplifier (model PCT-MA2-4P), just in case. I've tried to "cut the cable" and stop paying expensive cable fees, even for mainstream local TV stations. In addition to the fees, my cable company has switched to a system that requires cable TV boxes, which you can rent from them for $6 a month per box. I have tried other active indoor antennas and had bad experiences with them. Multiple channels could be scanned and image quality was disappointing or heavily pixelated, especially in daylight. The few stations I picked up were often unavailable. So I went back to the cable. I decided to try the GE 29884 based on the reviews I read on Revain. The antenna comes in a fairly small box labeled Pro Outdoor/Attic Mount Antenna. The installation booklet is small, with tiny mice. Therefore, you may need to scan the booklet to enlarge the text and illustrations. All parts are well packaged and easy to identify in the instruction manual. The number of parts of each type is also given. Before installation, this will help position all parts including nuts and bolts, reflector poles, dipole antenna parts, main mast, mounting hardware, etc. Installation can be a little tricky if you follow the instructions. However, if you search "GE 29884 antenna assembly" you will find YouTube videos that make the assembly process much easier. It took me about half an hour to assemble the antenna. A pleasant moment is the presence of rubber plugs for closing the dipole rods. The antenna definitely seems to be a quality product. I mounted the antenna as high as possible in the attic using the supplied J-mount fasteners and the supplied M5 bolts and nuts. I disconnected the coaxial cable from the cable TV provider and connected it to the antenna connector on the main mast. With the television in the bedroom, I selected "Antenna" as the input and ran a channel search. A total of 106 channels were scanned. Most were crystal clear. Maybe 3 or 4 were pixelated. Of course, many of the channels are rubbish or uninteresting to me (shopping channels, religious channels, languages I don't speak, etc.), but many great channels arrived perfectly, including all local channels and sub-channels, movie channels, retro, public etc. Multiple audio channels were captured. And I didn't have an amp connected. I just hooked up an amplifier because the signal splitter will attenuate the signal from the antenna if you're feeding multiple TVs. The 4-port amplifier amplifies the signal going to each TV. I've had the antenna for a week now and I haven't been disappointed. All I can say is goodbye, cable TV company. It's time to cut the cable. The antenna and amplifier will pay for themselves in a month or two. Update: 6 weeks later: This antenna works like a charm. I've cut the cable, no longer receive monthly cable bills and couldn't be happier.