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1.0 out of 5 starsSad Piece Of Plastic Junk
Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2019
I live in Northwest Florida (Pensacola) and I put up my first Antenna 18 years ago, Over the years I have had three different types of outdoor antennas mounted 20' up on a Antenna Pole, They were all a disappointments as far as receiving Digital over the air Broadcast, especially if the station was using the old VHF, which my local Fox and one Independent still uses.
So one day I decided to call the Station Engineer at my local fox station whose Transmitter Tower is 54 miles west of me, As luck would have it the man lived 5 Miles south of me, He then informed me that the only Outdoor Antenna that he has found that will pick up all the stations in our area including VHF is the Winegard Flatwave "FL6550A" which advertises a 60+mile range, So I bought it and installed it, and to my amazement I was receiving 37 Clear Clean Channels including VHF, That was 5 years ago, Anyways to make a long story short, When I seen that Winegard had introduced the Winegard Elite I knew I had to have one to pull in even more stations, My plan was to use a splitter and point the Old Flatwave to the East so I could receive 4 stations in that direction.
So down came the old Flatwave and up Went the new Elite, I then stepped inside and did my Channel Scan and looked and seen that I only had 19 Stations and NO VHF Stations, Even though I had used my Compass to point the Elite in the correct direction for all the Broadcast Towers that set due West of me, I then when out side and made some fine adjustments and did a rescan and it was worst, I then decide to install my old Flatwave to see if I had a bad connection, I did and I was back up to 37 stations including the VHF ones.
I would like to add that the Fit and Finish on this so called Elite Antenna is a Joke, For the Price Winegard is charging for this you would think it would be more Sturdy, But when I opened up the box and seen that it was 95% Cheap Plastic I knew it wouldn't last 2 years in the Sun and High Winds here in Florida, In fact the screws they include are "Self Tapping" Corse Threads that cut into the Plastic when you screw them, so if you over tighten them just a little bit your toast because the Plastic hole will strip out.
