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Below are 5 randomly chosen reviews of RCA ANT501 antenna.
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| RCA ANT501 Review #0 |
| Rating: 1 (very poor) |
Nickname: anonymous |
Date: 2010-03-13 |
| Summary: Terrible product |
| I live in an apartment building in Toronto, Canada. I got about 5-6 channels, and only 1 of them is digital. Only that 1 digital channel is watchable, and that only works sometimes. The picture is either quite good or it simply breakup in blocks. All the other non-digital are just so bad. The pictures of those non-digital are snowy. You can to play around with the antennas so much to gain an extremely little improvement. Watching these non-digital channels are not bearable. You would rather turn off the tv altogether. It was a waste of time & money. |
| RCA ANT501 Review #1 |
| Rating: 4 (good) |
Nickname: JesseTV |
Date: 2009-06-17 |
| Summary: What is everyone complaining about? |
| My house is a couple (Well, more than a couple) kilometers out of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, and this antenna works great for me!
I can\t pick up Channel 12 (FOX, an American channe at all, but who likes FOX anyway?
I am able to pick up all the other channels at great quality, so I don\t understand what everyone else here is complaining about. I truly don\t.
I highly recommend this RCA antenna if you live out near farmer\s fields.
The only thing I didn\t like is that it is confusing as hell to set the clock. |
| RCA ANT501 Review #2 |
| Rating: 4 (good) |
Nickname: tom h |
Date: 2007-02-26 |
| Summary: Pick-ups great signals in the Los Angeles area. |
| I originally bought the RCA-301 model from Best Buy for about $30 and returned it after a day.
I have a Dish Network 622 HD DVR and subscribe to the local channels. But Dish only provides the 4 major networks in HD (not The CW, UPN, etc..) so I decided to add a HD antenna. The RCA-301 only picked up two VHF channels at about 63-68 signal strength (I'm 25 miles from the main towers). After taking it back and upgrading to the RCA-501 I now get all local channel except NBC. I'm sure if I screwed with the antenna angle a little bit I would get that as well. So far the $20 upgrade was worth it, I'm getting signal strength between 78-88. |
| RCA ANT501 Review #3 |
| Rating: 1 (very poor) |
Nickname: anonymous |
Date: 2008-03-06 |
| Summary: Don't waste your money |
| I got 3 channels with this antenna and 2 had bad signal. I then moved antenna outside and it picked up more channels but not much better signal. I live 18 miles from the stations and this is advertised to work better. I returned this bad antenna to the store. Buy the DB4 outdoor antenna or the DB2 and use inside. You will like these better. |
| RCA ANT501 Review #4 |
| Rating: 5 (excellent) |
Nickname: anonymous |
Date: 2008-02-22 |
| Summary: Hit or Miss (Hit for me) |
| OTA HD is either a hit or miss. For me this was a huge hit. Great reception and I live about 20 - 35 miles away too. I highly reccomend if you live in Houston. Very fast shipping. A+++ |
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