Reliable Cable 4-Port Cable TV/Antenna/HDTV/Internet Digital Signal Amplifier/Booster/Splitter/Equalizer with Passive Return, F59 Terminators (Lindsay LSA84-EQ8)

Years ago, I decided to cut the cable and use an antenna for free over-the-air HDTV. However, I live in a hollow with no line-of-sight to the transmission towers, so my TV signals are weak. Furthermore, the signals are constantly disrupted by bad weather, waving trees, aircraft approaching the airport, and freeway traffic crossing the signal path on the ridge above me. I built a large 4-bay bowtie antenna to mount in the attic. That design was considerably better than most commercially available antennas, and the most forgiving as far as signal disruptions were concerned.The next challenge was to split that signal and get it to the two TVs in the house, each about 75 feet away from the antenna - running cable through the attic, walls, and crawlspace.This amplifier has been perfect in my application. It compensates for crippling signal losses caused by cheap passive splitters and long cable runs. It was easy to mount, and it comes with a power supply and two terminating caps for the unused amplifier outputs. Those caps are important for impedance-matching and keeping the amp as stable and noise-free as possible. I bought high-quality, low-loss, 3GHz RG6 coax cables for the long runs, and a shorter one for the antenna. Solid-copper-core cables are the best for minimizing losses, and they DO make a significant difference. My signal is now rock-solid at both TVs on all VHF and UHF channels.The well-written instruction sheet that accompanies the amplifier is very clear about its function and its limitations. It clearly states that it will amplify whatever it is fed. If you feed it with a bad quality signal, it will only amplify that bad quality signal. Therefore, it is imperative to feed it with a clean signal, using an antenna that is properly designed and properly located for your particular situation. For me, the results have been fantastic, for over 3 years now.

I have a single Winegard HDV antenna on the roof of our home in San Diego. It works well with most stations when simply cabled to a television in the room below. But struggles with the local PBS and NBC stations. Those UHF transmitters are further away, and line-of-sight is blocked.Our other television is about 100 feet away from the rooftop antenna. It's is too difficult to re-wire, but I was able to couple together a patchwork of old cables in the walls of the house. (Definitely some signal dropout, especially with a splitter.)This powered splitter was installed three days ago and has improved HD picture quality everywhere.We've found some new digital stations! The amplified antenna signal enabled our more-distant television to discover and display every one of the stations.PBS and NBC have noticeably stronger and more dependable signals. Picture/sound dropout at the more-distant television used to be common (~4 times/hour) ... now it's much more infrequent (~once per two hours).I'm happy with this purchase

I purchased this item to help boost my digital over the air signal. The amplifier improved my signal strength to my three tv's that my antenna supports, with is only 10ft high. Overall this product works well for what is intended to perform.

Setup: Non-amplified, outdoor antenna (larger than indoor antennas) in attic with lengthy coax that goes to a splitter then to TVs in multiple rooms.Before installing, I used a non-amplified splitter and could not get reception on distant, 4K TVs. After installing, we receive clear reception of all local channels on every TV. Works perfectly!Note: Per instructions, make sure antenna is not powered/amplified, as it affects signal of the amplified splitter.

My cable provider signal to me is -2db before going to splitter to my house which has more splitters. At each splitter signal will drop another 7 db so the one with 4 TV on it several ch did not come in. This amplifier did make them work but some still occasionally had hiccups.It's a band aide as it can't make a signal to low much better. Cable company also swapped it out for their amplifier which seemed to work better. They finally made changes to their system feeding my neighborhood making everything work but still need their amplifier.Bottom line these amplifier do help but a signal to low is just that, to low.

SO - I have a large over-the-air antenna in my attic. It's been there and working fine for...7 years? I had a RCA signal amplifier down in the basement, which got me around 55 channels when I put the setup together. Over time, quality degraded until I couldn't even watch the big local (2, 4, 7) channels. I figured my old, cheap, RCA amp was failing and ordered this.CHECK YOUR SETUP - REMOVE ANY PREAMPS!I switched the RCA amp with this one and fiddled around a bit - got only about 11 channels - PRISTINE clarity, but I was severely disappointed. I was about to return this product as "useless" when I saw a little, passive, pre-amp on the post with the antenna. "No way that could be the problem, right?" WRONG! I bypassed that sucker and scanned for channels again and got nearly 100 clear channels!!! (south of Pittsburgh and on a hill, I have signal in the air!) Make CERTAIN you have a clean signal from antenna to this booster to your TV and you'll see - IT WORKS! That little passive (no power) preamp may have been my issue all along, but today it's better than it ever was. Worth the coin!

This unit did not appear to amplify any signals coming in to our TV. I tried this with two different antennas: 1) A 3 element UHF yagi and 2) An 8-bay bow tie antenna. I re-scanned for each test and compared signal strengths as reported by the TV with and without the amplifier. In no cases was there ever an increase in reported signal strengths, and in no case were there any additional stations received. Nominal signal strengths were 1-3 bars without the amplifier inline and the same with the amplifier inline. It doesn’t really seem to do anything.