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PowerQ PowerHD-100 HDTV Antenna Reviews


PowerQ PowerHD-100 antenna reviews: 47
PowerQ PowerHD-100 average rating: 3.4

Excellent 21 reviews
Good 5 reviews
Average 5 reviews
Poor 6 reviews
Very Poor 10 reviews
PowerQ PowerHD-100 antenna

Band: VHF/UHF
Placement: Indoor
Amplifier: Yes
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PowerQ PowerHD-100 Review #0
Rating: 1 (very poor) Nickname: anonymous Date: 2009-06-04
Summary: over rated
I got less stations than the 20 year old I was replacing.


PowerQ PowerHD-100 Review #1
Rating: 1 (very poor) Nickname: anonymous Date: 2009-06-02
Summary: High Priced Junk
My house situates at bottom of a hilly area surrouded by tall trees. Couldn\t really pull in any channels. What it can pull in was unstable signals that keep dropping out. The RF cable was way too short to allow moving the antenna around to find a sweet spot. An old pair of rabiit ears and loop worked much better.


PowerQ PowerHD-100 Review #2
Rating: 1 (very poor) Nickname: unter2 Date: 2010-07-27
Summary: It's All a Matter Where You Live
I Live in Staten Island, New York.. Close to transmitters.. But This unit was totally useless.. Nothing...Nada

My Terk although clumsy pulls in 45 channels. Will stay with the ugly Terk.


PowerQ PowerHD-100 Review #3
Rating: 5 (excellent) Nickname: anonymous Date: 2010-05-04
Summary: Great product! Does what it claims it will do.
With the change over from analog to digital tv, there has been a rise in demand for digital portable tv's, because the old standby analog portable has becaome obsolete. People who were used to bringing one to the ballgame or the park picnic, now had to purchase an entirely new type of portable. Unfortunatly, the majority of these new portables have very poor reception, & alot of people have been doing alot of justified complaining. It seems almost all (with the exeption of a very few) brands of these tv's have supplied tall telescope antennas with their units that had also been used on the old analoge ones. The problem with this is most digital reception is UHF, & this requires a much shorter antenna to attain at least a chance of some kind of reception. Alot of these brands have then decided to include an extra "external" antenna; a magnetic-base one that when placed on magnetic surfaces is supossed to improve reception over the "attached to the unit" antenna. This does help somewhat, but there are still some bugs to work out with this new digital technology. Then along comes the Power Q!!! (Power HD-100). This is the only (as of this writing) portable AMPLIFIED digital antenna on the market! It runs on 2 AA batteries (included), but can also be powered by an AC cord, or a USB connection, both of which are also included! I must say, I was very impressed when I scanned my tuner after connecting the Power-Q to the co-axial port on the tv. I more than tripled the digital stations recieved! My tv unit has a signal meter, & the signal really jumps after connecting it to this small amplified little wonder! This company seems to be really ahead of the game (& the pack) with what they have come up with. Nobody else seems to have anything like it. I highly recommend this new product!!









PowerQ PowerHD-100 Review #4
Rating: 2 (poor) Nickname: a2audio Date: 2010-04-21
Summary: Overpriced Dissappointment. Rabbit Ears Are Better
Given the mixed reviews I really was hoping I'd be one of the pleasantly surprised people.
No such luck.

To be fair, the standard for OTA reception is a rooftop antenna, and this PowerHD-100PowerQ POWERHD-100 Indoor Portable Pop-Up Digital HDTV Antenna - Get FREE TV Broadcasts! will not come close to providing that type of reception for anyone. But my comparison of the PowerQ antenna performance is with my inexpensive GE model 24734 "Millenium" rabbit ears w/ uhf hoop that I had been previously using tested on my plasma HDTV. HDTV signals can be hit and miss to receive due to multi-path signal reflections and people who try to use this or any set-top type antenna for ground level reception can have problems, even in a metro area within 20 miles or so of the TV transmitters. I live in the lower level of a three story condo unit and my antenna can be placed near or at a large sliding patio window slightly off-axis to the TV transmitter tower signal direction. I tried the PowerQ antenna in various positions, using AC power, battery power, amp in off position. One of the main local VHF HD stations that I could receive with my rabbit ears would not tune in with the PowerQ. I extended a coax cable outside to the antenna cable connections and alternated between the PowerQ and rabbit ears. The previous unreceived station did tune in on the PowerQ but it did have occasional break-up while solid using the rabbit ears. Also, an additional UHF HD channel came in solid on the rabbit ear set but only with completely unwatchable break-up using the PowerQ with each extended outdoors.

In addition I took the PowerQ, my MacBook Pro and an Elgato TV tuner and I drove about a mile away to a park and set up the PowerQ to usb power and hooked in the TV tuner. I still had problems tuning that same UHF channel I couldn't receive at my home. Could have been the TV tuner's weak performance in this case.

Bottom line in the home tests- The cheap rabbit ears were better than this much more expensive powered antenna. Short usb cable length aside, It does have a nicer profile if I wanted to be content with just the channels it does pick up.


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