I purchased 3 of the antennas for my house that is 45-50 miles from the stations in Columbia, SC. Does not get stations as ad promised. Would like to return them

The closest to halfway I would say would be Newberry, SC, which is 178 miles from Hayesville and 208 miles from Callabash. For travel purposes if one wants to stop for the night I would say Columbia, SC which is 216 miles from Hayesville and 171 miles from Calabash.

I am not sure what type of car you have, but if it is reasonably modern, you will have what is called and "Active Antenna". This needs power and is usually powered from the car radio. I am sure that when the new radio was installed, this connection was missed. FM will work fine around town, but get a few miles outside, and you won't have anything. AM will be very noise or non-existant, as you have found out.

I had the same broublem with a used car that I had purchased. Once I connected the power to the antenna up, I had AM stations coming in from 200 miles away, and FM for 75 miles or so.

I have an ordinary antenna for digital TV and use an ordinary amplifier that one end fastens up within six feet of the top of antenna and the other end plugs into an electrical receptacle in my house and both ends are right on my antenna wire that hooks to my tv. I live 80 miles from Detroit Michigan and across Lake Erie from Cleveland Ohio and I get 50 channels on my tv. all the time

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1. check your antenna hook up. Make sure the cable is tight. If your antenna is old, you may have to buy a new one. Also check the cable connection to the antenna, that it is tight. You might want to check take the cable off the antenna and see if it is clean from weather wear. If the antenna is inside you might try moving it outside and to a higher position.

2. if you have cable you need to contact their customer support and ask them to check their transmission to you. They can tell if the reception is getting to their box. They may offer to come out to your house to check the connections inside and check the box. Before they do that, ask what it will cost. I did not ask that question and they charged me $60 and only replaced the cable hooked to the box which I could have done.

3. There are antenna's you can buy that will work inside the house. I have one that picks up stations that are 30 miles away. The stations that far away are not always on or good but my point is that the local stations come in very good and clear.

HTH
Wayne

Is the antenna digital? If not its analog. Most stations are going to digital HD and dropping analog. The other 7 are still broadcasting analog. Ask station if they are still broadcasting analog if antenna is digital. If no, do a rescan of stations in menu of tv. Let me know.

So called digital antennas are generally a gimmick. The important factor to receiving stations is the antenna position and strength relative to the incoming signal. (Digital signals are either enough for the tuner or you get "no signal".)

Look at antennaweb.org or tvfool.com to find out what stations are likely to be received in your area and the direction to rotate the antenna; plug your address in the search area. Antennaweb is very conservative in its channel list even though it assumes an external antenna. Tvfool gives a list of the channels you should get with various antennas (labelled by color). This is a standard label that will be on the antenna specs or box (at least on good antennas). Tall buildings and trees in the area can reduce the channels you receive.

Adding an amplifier may help you gain signal strength for borderline stations (or if you split the signal to several devices).

I hope this helps.

Cindy Wells
(My house has an external antenna with an amplifier/splitter. Antennaweb suggested that we'd only get the stations from ~10 miles away. We get those stations and the ones from ~30 miles away with the antenna rotated for the further stations.)

It has to do with the distance and direction of the different TV station antennas. You have to have a strong enough antenna, and you have to aim it at the TV station's transmitter.

They have powered antennas that give you more stations. I added a HD antenna I bought off ebay for 19 dollars and I get 10 stations. Please give me good rating It means a lot to me.

Dear Shoostar, 6:55 EST (USA)

It may be that those stations are only broadcasting in analog for now and since your using a digital converter the signal can't be read.
Did you try using the old antenna to get those stations?

If this is the problem you could use both antennas with a switch when you want to change channels for now until they all go digital.

I once used two antennas and a 4-pole switch to get Philly & New York from Jersey instantly back in the day.
I didn't like waiting for the antenna rotor to turn into place!

Hope this is helpful.
jack
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check with the dealer tell them what is going on but my guess is it is the antenna is the issue