アウトドア FMアンテナ 4エレメント指向性

There are fewer and fewer dedicated outdoor directional FM antennas being manufactured for the United States. I have the mother of all FM antennas as my reference. An APS 13 with an average gain of over 9db and a Front-Back ratio of over 30 db. I had to rebuild it due to storms. However, placement is key. If there is no signal reaching the antenna then it does not matter how great the gain is on the antenna. I have learned to walk along the roof and locate where the strongest signal is for the desired station you are trying to receive. Have you ever been in your car in your driveway and notice your favorite FM distant station will disappear as the car is moving from one spot to another spot. The key is finding that spot where the signal reaches. Generally, height is your friend. With all this being said, I have found this antenna to do a very good job, overall and discovered it is picking up my favorite distant low powered alternative rock station better than my APS 13. I am sure the APS 13 would pick up the same station better if I relocated the APS to the same location as the Stellar labs but the Stellar does allow me to listen to multiple stations that are on the same frequency. Install a rotor. And good to go. For fun I build my own antennas and if you want to make this antenna have more gain you can add additional directors. I am ecstatic with this antenna! ❤️

I mounted this antenna on my roof with a rotor on the same mast as an old winegard five element fm broadcast band yagi that I bought from radio shack years go. This new antenna blows the old winegard antenna away. It is especially good for blocking out a nearby station signal to pull in a much more distant station, provided you aim it correctly. I have picked up stations up to 106 miles away. I live in cleveland Ohio and I was able to pick up Windsor, Ontario and leamington, Ontario, also picked up Youngstown Ohio. Easy to install and assemble. I would say worth the money my very effective if used with a rotor.

I bought this thinking I could get the station I listen to in my car while driving to work. I also bought an antenna rotor to allow me to fine tune the directionality of the antenna, and an in-line amplifier to increase the signal gain. The antenna is mediocre but doesn't have quite enough gain to bring in the really weak signals unless I switch to mono FM. I may try a larger antenna like the Winegard 8200U to see if I can get better results but that behemoth is almost three times as long and more than twice as wide (like 14'L x 8'W) as this one which is maybe only 5'L x 3.5'W. I will say that this one I bought is not bad, it's easy to install, and won't catch the wind as bad as the Winegard. The rotor and the amplifier have been essential for this one so that I am not going to send it back. By the way, if you buy the RCA rotor, it does not come with control cable and you have to order that separately, And, if you plan on an exterior mounted antenna, be sure to get exterior grade control cable, not the "in wall" grade because it won't stand up to UV degradation of the jacketing.

This antenna I purchased from Newark back in 2020 first one was damaged. They sent another one. I never could get it working stereo did not get any stations it up 20 feet in the air. I decided to try this again. This time I ordered from Amazon. It seems to do very well I put it up today 11/23/22. It seems to pull in stations over 130 miles away. But I think there is some Tropospheric Ducting going on. Maybe it will still do good on bad days or bad nights because an indoor antenna does hardly anything. I actually connected to my HDTV. I got one stations and its sub stations UHF 29 Actually broadcast on channel 7. So, I guess it could be a good VHF Antenna also.

The first antenna arrived damaged due to weak packaging and rough handling, It was replaced without any problem. The antenna arrived, and it was as advertised. I found the manufacture of the antenna to be flimsy. I don't think it will survive any prolonged wind, but then you get what you pay for. The antenna had good gain, and brought in some distant stations. Here comes the bad part...Yagi antennas are supposed to be directional, and this antenna does a poor job of picking up stations much better in a particular direction. I wanted to pick up a more distant station, but another station a bit closer was too strong. If the antenna had more of a directional pickup, it should have increased the signal in the direction it was pointed, Problem is the interference was worse. In fairness this was not my first choice, but was the only one available. This antenna clearly needs more elements to make the signal pattern more directional. I had a 6 element yagi that simply died of old age. This antenna would improve reception greatly if they added 1 more director, and 1 more deflector element. I found some stations over 50 miles away came in the same no matter which direction I had the antenna pointed in. It's a decent product, but don't expect miracles. I did however find a lot more stations, and that was great. The station that was not receivable came in loud and clear, 160 miles away. But it had no other stations on the dial that were close enough to cause an issue. In reality, this antenna is almost omni-directional. Just not enough gain in only 1 direction. I am thinking about buying another one and using a stacked array to make it more directional. What is needed is a 6 element antenna.....