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Originally Posted by rickcain
Well here's the deal with Lava antennas....
1) Lots of people are selling these things, so padding review sites is not unusual
2) Many glowing customers unknowingly are in strong reception areas, so even a paper clip stuck in the tuner box can get them 40+ channels of Free TV.
3) Plastic! The only thing plastic on an antenna should be an end cap for waterproofing. When you get into structural parts in the design, you can expect early failure. Weather and the sun will do a number on plastic, especially cheap polystyrene which these antennas are made of.
4) The earth's curvature makes 100-120+ mile antenna claims suspicious. You would need a very large antenna very high up with an amp to get reliable reception.
Stick to the big boys that have been in the business for decades, Winegard, Antennacraft, Channelmaster, Antennas Direct.
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Well, in the analog days, I was able to pick up those 100-mile stations in VHF fine (albeit static, but watchable)... yes, I know VHF has a longer distance than UHF.. and they had high ERPs like 100-300 kWatt.
Now these new UHF stations have less than 50 kWatt, so it makes it that much harder.
My other choice was to get either the DB4 or DB8 or those Clearstream C4 or C5, that Amazon shows good reviews as well.
Hopefully Amazon has a good return policy, such that I would just be out my "shipping cost."