Stellar Labs,Outdoor FM Antenna OMNIDIRECTIONAL

This antenna works great. These days there is a lack of effort by manufacturers of audio equipment to build good quality FM receivers because everyone streams music or mp3's but a few of us still like listening to the good old radio. This antenna makes the lackluster receivers (and transmitters too) perform like things did in the old days. I have this mounted about 20 feet above the ground and feeding a Sony receiver amplifier and it lets me hear the stations I like. Do not forget to add some lighting protecting to this if you are putting it up above a structure! It's cheap and easy and prevents you from getting things inside your house that you want kept outside your house!!! Just search for an F-type lightening arrestor here on Amazon and make sure it has a good ground connection and that's all you need.

Nice antenna- Works well... but remember... where you place it and how far you are from the broadcast antenna towers has a lot to do with it's performance. Increased FM reception by 70-80% for me- I live about 60 (hilly) miles from the towers so, I am at the very edge of effectiveness- not because of it's ability, but because of radio wave physics. I have a lot of obstacles around us. It's a good quality, aluminum build with very little plastic. Looks good and will last. (I've owned a few antennas over the last 50 years)

How this was supposed to go together was pretty obvious but the elements required a bit of bending and test fitting and bending again before everything lined up right. I'd knock off just half a star for that if I could but... I built an H-frame base out of 2x4s and used a piece of plastic pipe as a mast. My roof trusses are on 24 inch centers so I made the legs of my base 28 inches long so they'd straddle a pair of trusses and put this setup up in the attic. I ran RG6 quad shield to a splitter in the attic and dropped a couple of coaxes down through the wall to feed jacks in two different rooms.This setup is working great. I'm pulling in stations 50 miles to the south and 100 miles to the north of me and everywhere in between. As soon as I tune away from one station I'm picking up another with near zero dead space between stations. I am in a major metropolitan area so there are many, many stations within this 150 mile stretch. The omnidirectional (more or less) pattern of this antenna is just the ticket for my situation. If you're in a similar situation, then I think this antenna should work well for you. If you're way out in the sticks, then a directional antenna with some gain might be a better choice. Even then though, this antenna might surprise you. Considering the very reasonable cost, this baby is probably worth a try in any case.

Just get this antenna as high over your house as you reasonably can, then use the best coax you can "reasonably" afford (solid copper center is best) and you will be very, very happy with your reception. I actually have two of these antennas co-phased just about ten feet above my roof. One is a quarter wavelength below the first (@100.1 MHZ) on a pole with "matched" jumpers into a combiner using Belden solid copper center conductor coax, down through a ground block @ ground level(featuring three ground rods driven into a triangle and welded together) straight into an old antenna/distribution preamp that I used 35 years ago, this signal then eventually goes into my old NAD tuner. It's a hard setup to beat and performs well even without the preamp(I only have it in-line for DXing. With the Belden coax it's totally not needed) I enjoy excellent reception from these antennas as well as excellent audio performance when used with the NAD tuner! I could not ask for more! I do have this antenna source split into both of my tuners, my SONY receiver is handy with the presets but as far as seriously fine "off air" audio quality, that's the NAD hands down. Eventually I will get my tower and my old APS-13 YAGI up, rotor and then this antenna will only be my "local" "omni-directional set up" when the long range directional is not required. I will be using these two for a long, long time, maybe not actively as I will have my dx YAGI @72 feet, but I'm also not saying that these two antennas won't find their way to be sitting 5 feet above my directional antenna, waaaay up on top. They would do very well to be up there! I love these antennas! Great without even considering they cost near nothing! Bubble gum money. To Stellar Labs excellent product. To Amazon & "ADVENTURER'S BAG" 2 thumbs up!! Two day service into central Kentucky with no damage twice. Thank you very much. More to come.

I put up an FM receiver for my streaming server and needed an antenna. This works outstanding for me.All stations within about 45 miles come in clear.I mounted this on a 20 foot pole about 15 feet up next to a metal-sided structure. I used about 40 feet of rg-59 and f connectors at both ends.It's lightweight and so far withstood about a dozen midwest storms. I used electrical tape (but no coax sealer) for weather proofing.It works as expected.. Good purchase.