GE 29884 Pro Outdoor/Attic Mount Antenna - Long Range with Compact Design Outdoor / Attic HDTV Antenna for VHF / UHF Channels - 70 Mile Range

Antenna was well packaged and arrived in good condition. Lots of parts that need assembly, but take your time. It's not hard, but the instructions are not very detailed and the parts are not specifically indicated in the instructions, so you have to figure it out. There is a video that is helpful, but actually leaves some of the washers out, and if you follow the video you will have left over washers. Just know that there are no extra parts in the parts bag. The straight antenna aluminum tubs that insert into the main frame of the antenna seem very tight as the center of the tube nears the frame. Look closely, and you will see the antenna tube is crimped in the middle. The hole on both sides of the frame appear oval in shape, and the aluminum tube needs to be rotated slightly to align with the frame (the crimped part of the aluminum tube with the oval hole in the frame). Push the antenna tube through the hole and out the other side until the tube is centered in the frame. Then turn the tube a quarter turn to lock it in place. There are twelve of these tubes so take your time, and make sure all of the tubes ends are aligned. The other aluminum antenna parts are easy to attach with screws provided. Attach the stepped mount to the antenna frame and insert the U-bolt and screw on the wing nuts. Assemble the pole and base with the two remaining long screws with washers and nuts. Use the two bottom holes if you need to rotate the mounting pole. My antenna is mounted in my attic to a 2x4 cross support. The mounting plate is more than 4 inches long so I used stainless steel cable ties which you can see in the pictures. I used two 12 inch cable ties together on each side for the attachment, and used a cable tie gun to tighten them up. I pointed the antenna in the general direction of my two VHF local channels ABC & CBS which are 36 degrees apart and the reception is excellent. All my other channels are UHF and they are spread over an additional 51 degrees to the north, and again the reception is excellent. Altogether I am receiving 38 channels, which includes all major networks ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX and PBS. The GE antenna is a passive antenna, so I added the RCA Digital Signal Amplifier for $33.15. The GE Antenna was reasonably priced at $38.98 and gets excellent reception with amplifier. Also make sure you are using at least RG6 coaxial cable. I had a section of RG59 cable that some cable installers had used years ago which I had to locate and replace because the reception was poor. I started to blame it on the antenna until I checked the cables and found the problem. Would highly recommend the GE Antenna and the RCA Amplifier because of thew reasonable cost and the great outcome. This antenna replaced a $90.00 ChannelMaster Flat antenna with an amplifier built-in that just quit working after two years. Very satisfied with this package.

I replaced my satellite dish with this antenna and with a decent amplifier I am able to provide local over the air channels to 3 TVs in the house. Had tried a little indoor antenna but couldn’t get many channels and they were rather pixilated. With this I was able to pick up a minimum of 55 channels on the oldest set and over 75 on newer. Was easy to put together and with a little effort was able to use the same mount and cable as the old dish that it replaced, how ironic. It is small so it is not offensive on the roof so looks good. Very happy!!

Pretty good antenna for what it is. Feels a bit flimsy, but works fine. Works even better with an amplifier. Have two installed in the attic tied together and reception stays solid except in heavy thunderstorms, but you can only ask so much from a cheap antenna that I should really have mounted on the roof. Very light. Not going to compare to a Clearstream but hey, it's half as much.

It was worth the half hour assembly time to put it together, before installing it in my attic. Mine came with instructions, which were reasonably easy to follow. I pick up 49 channels now, versus 32 channels with a different brand antenna that was more than double the cost of this one. The signal is stronger, as well. For me, mounting this particular GE model as high as I safely could gave optimum results. I'm very pleased with my purchase and highly recommend this antenna. If you have the patience to assemble it and find the best direction to point it for your area, it's well worth considering for the price. It's a keeper for me.

I live in a suburb quite far from the city and many of the broadcast station antennas. I purchased the GE 29884 antenna a couple of weeks ago from Amazon. Along with the antenna, I purchased a PCT 4 Port Cable TV/HDTV/Internet amplifier (model PCT-MA2-4P) just in case I need it. I have been trying to "cut the cable" and stop paying expensive cable TV fees for even local basic television stations. In addition to the fees, my cable company switched to a system requiring cable TV boxes that you rent from them for $6/month per box. I have tried other powered indoor antennas and have had miserable experiences with them. Few channels could be scanned and the picture quality was dismal, or heavily pixelated, especially in the daytime hours. The few stations that I could pick up were often unwatchable. So back to cable I went.I decided to try the GE 29884 antenna based on the reviews I read on Amazon. The antenna comes in a fairly small box labelled as Pro Outdoor/Attic Mount Antenna. The installation booklet is small with tiny "mice" type. So you might need to scan in the booklet in order to be able to zoom in on the text and illustrations. All the parts are nicely packaged and are easily identified in the instruction manual. A count of each part type is also given, Prior to installation it helps to layout all the parts including the nuts and screws, the reflector rods, dipole antenna parts, main mast, mounting parts, etc. The installation can be a bit tricky, if you follow the manual. However is you do a search on "GE 29884 antenna assembly", YouTube videos can be found that simplify the assembly process a great deal. It took me about a half an hour to assemble the antenna. One nice thing is that rubber end caps were provided to cap off the dipole rods. The antenna definitely seems to be a quality product.I mounted the antenna in the attic, as high as possible using the provided J-mount mounting hardware and supplied M5 bolts and nuts. I disconnected the coaxial cable from the cable TV provider, and connected it to the antenna's connector located on the main mast. Using a bedroom TV, I then selected "antenna" as the input, and performed a channel scan. A total of 106 channels scanned. Most were crystal clear. Perhaps 3 or 4 were pixelated. Sure many of the channels are trash or of no interest to me (shopping channels, religious, languages I don't speak, etc) but many great channels came in beautifully including all the local channels and sub-channels, movie channels, retro, public, etc. A few audio-only channels were picked up. And I didn't have the amplifier connected.I did wire up the amplifier simply because a signal splitter attenuates the signal from the antenna as you feed the signal to multiple TVs. The 4-port amplifier boosts the signal going to each TV.So far, I've had the antenna for a week and I have not been disappointed. All I can say is "bye bye cable TV company". It is time to cut the cable. The antenna and amplifier will pay for itself in a month or two.Update: 6 weeks later: This antenna works like a charm. I have cut the cord, get no more monthly cable bills, and could not be happier.