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Old 03-04-2014, 02:53 PM
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There really should be laws prohibiting the marketing of such things as these...
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Was it not P.T. Barnum that said, "There's a sucker born every minute."?
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There are, but the FTC is occupied chasing false diet pills and such that could cause serious problems.
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Old 03-17-2014, 03:02 PM
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Not technical razzle-dazzle but the sheer aesthetic superiority of its elegant parabolic design make the GFX-100 a marketing breakthrough!
Definitely isn't an engineering breakthrough.

I suppose those who bought that thing got put on a special "sucker" mailing list.
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Old 03-17-2014, 08:05 PM
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I would not say the Clear TV DTV antenna is a scam. As I mentioned in a previous post, mine works up to a point; the reason it does not receive two local DTV channels which actually transmit on VHF high-band channels is that the stations in question actually require an amplified outdoor VHF TV antenna to be received at all in my area. I don't know why this should be, unless the Clear TV antenna was never designed to receive high-band VHF channels. (The shape of the antenna element, which is reminiscent of the old UHF bow-tie indoor antennas of the '60s-'70s, should all but scream that the Clear TV system won't work well, or in some areas at all, with high VHF channels, unless said signals are very strong.)

The advertising for this antenna states that it will receive VHF high-band and UHF signals, but from comments in this thread and from my own experience, I must agree that the antenna does not do nearly as well with high-band VHF as with higher-frequency (read UHF) signals. The antenna might work a lot better in a prime signal area; where I live, the TV signals aren't that strong, with most folks having to use outdoor antennas to get much other than the CBS and ABC affiliates in Cleveland--and that was in the old analog NTSC days.

As to the mailing list referred to by another person on this thread, I have not received any correspondence at all to date from the maker of the antenna via e-mail or snail mail. They may have started the mailing list some time after I ordered my antennas (I mistakenly ordered four of these things last year, when I only have one flat-screen DTV set).
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Old 03-18-2014, 07:46 AM
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These are better than rabbit ears at least. You just need to be in a prime spot.
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Often wondered what a typical bow-tie antenna on a rooftop pole would offer??

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Old 03-18-2014, 06:36 PM
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Often wondered what a typical bow-tie antenna on a rooftop pole would offer??

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I'm using a bowtie that is about 10 feet off the floor. I'm picking up all the local channels in my area.

I'm surrounded by mountains, too.

I'd like to try a bowtie mounted up on the chimney, too.
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Old 04-11-2014, 08:15 PM
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Would usually outperform a 180" boom log-periodic/corner reflector at any point inside the house (with the possible exception of non-metallic roof attic)

In most places where many people live, low gain is not usually the cause of DTV reception failure. Most people are more likely to have a problem with multipath than with low signal strength (and autointerference - interference from the receiver itself, a bigger problem at VHF than low signal strength).
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