This Drop Amp works great! I have a two story home with a several TV's at the far end of the house that never had clear pictures. They have always been grainy and just never looked right. Well after talking with the cable company they told me they could come out and put an amp on the cable to boost the signal and it would cost me a service fee plus the cost of the amp which would be a total of $150 bucks. I would have thought they should have fixed it for nothing. Luckily I talked with a friend of mine who had once worked for a cable company and he told me that I could get an amp myself and recommended one of these. So I bought one and installed it myself! It took maybe ten minutes to get this thing up and running! I also found "thanks to the cable company" they had extra splitters in my cable run in the attic that was not needed "this will also degrade your signal". Now my TVs have clear pictures and look great all for $35 bucks! PCT 1-PORT BI-DIRECTIONAL CABLE TV HDTV AMPLIFIER SIGNAL BOOSTER WITH PASSIVE RETURN PATH
Picked this up on the strength of the reviews here. The DTV is working fairly well at my pad, but two stations are weak (drop outs), and I never could pick up one that I knew existed (58). Plugged the unit in (no more than 3 feet from the DTV converter box and immediately picked up 7 new stations. Can't see any signal degradation either. (Zenith DTV converter box, sony vega TV, and the old style roof antenna, one that never received UHF signals well). Great little amp!
This OTA (over the air) amplifier placed between your antenna (as close as possible to the antenna) and your HDTV antenna input will only do some good if the signal is weak. If the signal is strong enough but is occasionally interrupted by GKW (god knows what - aircraft, trucks, heavy precipitation, etc) you may not notice much, if any, improvement. That seems to be the case with me. My home is just over the top of a small hill between the city and my street. I am trying to get by with an indoor antenna (but a good one with four ganged elements mounted high on a coatrack, no less) and normally I have just minor dropouts occasionally. With the amplifier installed at the end of 6 feet of cable from the antenna, power applied, feeding about 12 feed of cable to the TV I still have these dropouts. So it may not be a case of weak signal (25 miles from the transmitting antennae), but uncorrectable signal interruption. So, I'll keep it but this is just to let you know it isn't a cure all for your OTA signal problems. It works as it should; it may or may not help you in your particular situation.
This worked great for my outdoor antenna. I hooked it up and much to my surprise, the digital signal was strengthened and picked up a couple more channels. I highly recommend this product. This worked way better than the cheap Phillips amplifier from Walmart that did not work at all.
I purchased this signal booster to push the cable signal approx 300ft from my house to the garage. Before installing the booster I was unable to receive any channel that weren't snowy in yhe garage. Now all the channels have a great picture. I could not believe my eyes when I saw the dramatic change in picture quality. This device is amazing and I highly recommend it to anyone having trouble with a snowy picture or trying to send the signal to multiple TV's. I have not tried it yet with my Comcast Cable WiFi due to there is only only one output. I am planning on purchashing a second booster for this purpose. Also this booster is very simple to install and comes with everything required to install a single signal boost. Buy this and you won't be dissapointed !! Also note that it is bi-directional which allows you to use this booster with a cable modem.
I have a DB8 HD antenna in my attic which was pulling in some pretty good signal but with 80ft of cable I thought I would try a signal booster to see what would happen. My existing channels increased slightly from about 60-70 to 70-80 signal strength. What is nicer is that I am now receiving additional channels. This signal amplifier is built very nice and the instructions were easy to understand.
I have this amp right after the pre-amp coming from a DB4. From the amp I've split it to two different floors, at the end of the longer run it splits again going into two d-tv receivers. The Amp does a great job sending the signal down the line.
I have one D-TV station that is 90 degrees from the rest of the stations. If I go straight into one receiver I get a solid signal, the moment I split it with out any boosting I loose the signal. With this Amp on the line at the point of entry I get the same signal strength after two splits that I get when going straight from the antenna.
Just to clarify - it doesn't help me get better reception, it just keeps the signal strength strong from deteriorating on the long and split cable runs. - Cable - Signal - Amplifier - Booster'
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