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Below are 5 randomly chosen reviews of RCA ANT1250 antenna.
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| RCA ANT1250 Review #0 |
| Rating: 5 (excellent) |
Nickname: Wiscnukegrad |
Date: 2009-06-22 |
| Summary: Great Antenna |
| This is the only antenna that I have ever found this size that gets local HD on VHF frequencies. Even after I broke one of the antennas off, it still picks up 2-13 better than any antenna I have tried. I am fairly close to our signals, but others would not get CBS and other VHF stations.
The amplification doesn\t seem to help much for digital HD reception; it worked well to get rid of the snow on analog stations before the switch. This may be different in different locations though. I wish I had more of these laying around to replace my broken one. |
| RCA ANT1250 Review #1 |
| Rating: 4 (good) |
Nickname: Micheal Mistrone |
Date: 2009-01-11 |
| Summary: Antenna is effective but fragile if dropped... |
| Antenna able to tune in 2, 6, 10, 12, 17, 22, 33, 35, and channel 57. In digital it can tune in with a led lg television antenna close to a window channels 2, 3, 6, 33, 35, and digital channel 57. If dropped, top part will break near connection point to main part of plastic framework and can only be fixed with high strengh adhesive to reconnect it
right. Seems well constructed other than the plastic and has decent reception if plugged in with its power adapter.
Nowhere near as effective as any philips or other rca and terk designs for digital reception even if ideally placed away from the center of a building at the 1st floor to basement level. Hard to find this antenna now and recommend looking for the equivalent 1251 version which looks more modern and fashionable.
Enjoy G Bush Jr daylight savings time and now atsc implementation watching.
Be careful about a disasterous event around 2018 that might be worse than the banking depression. |
| RCA ANT1250 Review #2 |
| Rating: 4 (good) |
Nickname: anonymous |
Date: 2008-12-07 |
| Summary: Reception better than others |
| Able to receive channel 3, 5, 33, 57 from Vermont and plattsburg on digital and 2, 6, and 35 in Quebec. On analog, the antenna can recieve most local quebecois and long range 22, 33, 44, and 57 on analog maxed out on UHF. Beat others i've tested so far and the rca 500 series is a close second to it. Functions a a lot better on dtv converter box than a standard DTV tuner plasma screen or the LED equivalents. |
| RCA ANT1250 Review #3 |
| Rating: 2 (poor) |
Nickname: anonymous |
Date: 2008-03-24 |
| Summary: power disappears over time |
| This seemed like a great antenna when we first got it, 14 years ago. It gave up pictures where all the other rabbit ears amplified or not from radio shack gave us nothing.
Then it gradually wore out after a couple of years. We went back east for a while and used cable, then we got two new one again of this same type. One upstairs and one downstairs. Gradually they wore out too over several years. We still get pictures with them and nothing if we cut the power to them, but the dials don't do anything anymore turning the amplifiers for UHF and VHF all the way up or down don't do anything anymore, and the picture is the same. When we first got them turning the dials up gave us pretty good pictures and turning them down made it worse. Now, looking forward to getting digital, we are looking for something better. VHF still looks pretty good on the second floor one, but the UHF is really bad. On the first floor one it is pretty bad on both and almost nothing on VHS. Our stations are mostly 44 miles away, with a few 8 miles away. We get most of those 8 mile away ones OK, on some days they are very good. |
| RCA ANT1250 Review #4 |
| Rating: 1 (very poor) |
Nickname: TVjunkie |
Date: 2007-10-11 |
| Summary: Don't waste your time |
| This antenna was totally useless. I live in the Boston suburbs and am only 14 miles from the TV antenna farms but this antenna got me 5 of the 27 digital channels for my area. And of the 5 channels that I could receive, 2 were spanish channels to which I have totally no interest. Every channel that I could received seems to require that I fiddle with the UHF loop or else I get unstable reception. I've tried having the amplifier on and off and did not notice any difference either way. This antenna performed far worst than a regular UHF loop that can be had for a dollar.
Too bad I can not give this a zero rating for surely that is what this antenna deserves. It baffles me how some folks can give this antenna a glowing review whilest some think it is absolutely garbage. Luckily I was able to return this antenna but unfortunately still researching for a decent indoor antenna. |
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