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Below are 5 randomly chosen reviews of Terk HDTVi antenna. See all HDTVi reviews.

Terk HDTVi Review #0
Rating: 3 (average)	Nickname: anonymous	Date: 2009-09-02
Summary: Doesn\t pick up all the channels
It says it picks up signal for \up to 45 miles away\ however it only picks up certain channels from that far away. I don\t receive ABC and CBS because the antenna basically has Rabbit Ears on the antenna for those two channels. I didn\t notice it uses Rabbit Ears from the picture. I don\t recommend this if you live farther than 20 miles from the signal. Just listen to the radio. I don\t know what antenna to get anymore. I\ve tried many antennas and this one is no better than the rest. This antenna is not worth the price.

Terk HDTVi Review #1
Rating: 1 (very poor)	Nickname: anonymous in kansas	Date: 2009-06-18
Summary: sad
just like HDTVi Review #1 says, it\s probably not the antenna\s fault if you don\t receive a signal but I\ll say this. . .DTV transition is a scam by the cable tv industry to make everyone get cable. Sorry, I have enough cable hook ups. The new HDTV I purchased is in a room that will not be hooked to cable. I can get some stations, usually ones I never received before but now can\t get basic CBS, NBC and FOX affiliates but on an intermittent basis, the ones I\d watch the most. Don\t even mention storms, then reception is beyond pitifull. Save your money and invest it in your computer and watch TV that way. $70 antenna, $400 HDTV. . . and no consitent reception, free tv my arse.

Terk HDTVi Review #2
Rating: 3 (average)	Nickname: anonymous	Date: 2009-05-15
Summary:
This is a the worst antenna you\re going to get... It pick up very weak signal, therefore many channels will not pick up by your this antenna I have gone thru many antennas: Terk, RCA, Philip...with or without amp... The BEST antenna is a really unknow type out there: LP49 The reason i come a cross to it because, after so many trips back and fort to different stores (buy and returns) I realize the Signal Gain is the number you should look for: As far as I know, the highest Signal Gain of this LP49 is 5dBi, the highest among the non-amplify antenna. Please email me samq+dslexteme.com if you see any non=power antenna has signal gain more than 5dBi... I would love to have such

Terk HDTVi Review #3
Rating: 3 (average)	Nickname: Television Engineer	Date: 2008-12-25
Summary: Have no experience with Terk HDTVi but offer some general comments
Be it analog or digital, television reception for viewers close to the broadcast antenna is difficult especially for any antenna used indoors. The problem stems from the radiation pattern of the high gain transmitter antennas used by UHF TV stations (ALL digital stations are on UHF). While the antenna pattern is typically omnidirectional, the design of the antenna focuses virtually all of the radiated energy into a flat pancake type pattern aimed at the horizon to achieve the widest possible coverage area. The problem for receivers close in is that they receive little of this main lobe energy. It just shoots over top of close in receiving antennas and they see instead reflections from the transmitting antenna's many lower level side lobes. The result being instead of one single strong signal, the receive antenna sees numerous reflected sources with each having some different time delay associated with it. This is called "Mutipath" and causes the familiar ghosting of an analog TV signal and various types of signal dropout, cubing, posterization, etc on digital signals. The only way to deal with multipath is by the use of a directive receive antenna in an attempt to sort out the best of these many signals and reject the others. That's the good news. The bad news is that some other channel will be on a different frequency, likely transmitting from a different location, thus creating an entirely new set of side lobes and reflections. A directional antenna may have to be re-oriented to receive the this other channel cleanly. This is all pretty straightforward physics and not much else can be done to improve things without resulting in some rather complicated solutions.

Terk HDTVi Review #4
Rating: 1 (very poor)	Nickname: anonymous	Date: 2008-11-01
Summary: Poor design and function
I am only a few miles from the broadcast towers at most. There is apparently no place I can put this antenna to get more than two of the five available channels. I can get great reception on all the channels, but I have to move the antenna just about every time I change the channel. Aside from the obvious annoyance, this makes it impossible to record broadcast TV in Media Center - if the antenna's pointed wrong, the recording fails. If that's not bad enough, this thing is incredibly top heavy. It falls over all the time. All very disappointing, especially considering the excellent reviews I based my purchase on. I can't decide whether to risk ruining someone's day by putting this thing on e-bay or just toss it in the trash.

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Band:	VHF/UHF
Placement:	Indoor
Amplifier:	No
Range:	35 miles
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