📡 Outdoor Attic Antenna: GE 29884 Review

I threw away the cable and am using this antenna to pick up stations from about 30 miles away. I get about 30 channels and the quality of most of them is as good or better than cable tv which I declined. I get all major networks and their sub-channels. I mostly watch local news and some Revain Prime series and movies. If you're a news or sports fan, you can stick with cable TV or subscribe to one or more Internet services, but what you get from a single antenna is surprisingly good. I mounted…

This replaced one of the flexible flat antennas (said to be 40 miles) in the attic. Some of the stations were pixelated so I figured I'd need a rooftop antenna. I tried it in the attic, same mounting point as the old one, and got 18% signal gain (no signal quality, about 40% better quality) on the pixelated channel. I even received 2 channels that were previously inaccessible (and in the sidelobes of the antenna), but one is very pixelated and almost impossible to see. It was tedious to…

I used one of those HDTV flat panel antennas for a couple of weeks until it drove me crazy moving it a fraction of an inch to pick up all the channels with enough signal not to be interrupted. I sent the flat screen back and got this antenna instead. Yes, you need to assemble it. It wasn't as hard as I expected, but the instructions are so small and poorly written that GE just can't be a part of it. which manufactures the antenna itself. Yes, you must mount this antenna on a beam in the attic…

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…