Chaowei Chaowei DVB66 TV Antenna for Digital TV Indoor - Portable Indoor Outdoor TV Antenna for ATSC Television,PCI/USB TV Tuner - with Magnetic Base

I loved this the minute I saw it. It has a magnetic base and the box it comes in is surprisingly only 5 inches tall. It looks like a tiny microphone and I have mine attached to the arm that is on the wall to hold and swing my TV. But the great thing is that if it had to be visible it would look just fine as opposed to some of the other antennas which can be awkward. I was very fortunate to have found 70-80 channels immediately (counting the sub channels like 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, etc.) The picture quality was wonderful and, as I mentioned, I did not have to bring the antenna up to the window. The cord was very long, so I just left it coiled and it still worked fine. The magnetic base made it very stable as opposed to the ones that drop the signal when you slightly move the cord. Be sure to look at the directions for a special offer available to people who purchase this product. I did not have any problem installing the item, but I wrote to the company regarding that offer and was delighted that they wrote back within hours. This is NOT powered, by the way, and I did not need power to get excellent reception.

I think it's important we mention what city we're in when we review them so others in the same city knows this product will work for them as well. I'm in Winnipeg and am able to get CBC French, CBC HD, CTV HD, Global HD and CityTV HD. This picture was taken during the show Carnival Eat's. This product worked better than expected. I'm 10 miles away from most and 25 miles away from the farthest. With having a magnetic base, I currently have this on my baseboard heater indoors. I haven't paid for cable in 30 years. It's worth the purchase! EDIT: Just under 1 year later, the amplifier died making it unusable. If understood correctly, product had 1 year warranty. Contacted seller, requested warranty replacement, would only offer 20% discount code to purchase another one, agreed, waited 3 weeks and no code. Nice antenna but would suggested a different seller that honors their warranty.

For those of us that have cut the cord and use streaming services such as Netflix, Amazon Prime, & Sling etc. This antenna gives me local channels and ABC, CBS, NBC, OPB, FOX, and a handful of miscellaneous channels that I skip over like QVC and HSN. It’s really small which is nice because it’s not an eyesore. It’s the size of a super tampax. :-) It states it’s weather proof so I put it out my bedroom window and attached the magnetic base to my gutter. My living room TV isn’t near a window so I placed it next to the TV and only got CBS, FOX & the garbage channels we don’t watch (infomercials) So, it really needs access to a window with no obstructions or even better yet put outside. The picture is clear. It was unbox, plug and play. It screws into the cable outlet on the back of the TV, then you scan for channels and in less then 5 minutes you’re watching free network channels. I checked my distance for broadcast towers and it said 14 miles. It does work. I don’t think I get as many channels as others. I do recommend this product. I would buy it again.

Antenna was super easy to set up. And that's where the "fun" ends. Antenna claims to be able to receive signals from 360 degrees. This is simply not true. The antenna is entirely directional (I used to design antennas for a living) and only works when I "point" the antenna directly at the transmitting tower. Overall performance is so poor that the antenna cannot even receive local stations that are no more 30km away (it did however receive stations from Buffalo NY that are well over 60kms away!!!! huh???) All in all, I can't recommend this antenna. Perhaps adding a better RF amplifier to it would help resolve some reception/signal issues however the sheer lack of surface area to receive the broadcast signals is its downfall.

This antenna is great! It is smaller than it looks, and it is magnetic and sits on the back of my tv, the little amp didn’t do much for us, but if there is a channel that we can’t get in, we just move the antenna closer to the window, very satisfied with this!