Question 1

Does it matter that this one doesn't mention anything about being HD like others do?

Accepted Answer

There is no such thing as an HD antenna. A TV antenna receives signals and sends it to the television. The tuner in the television converts it to an HD image. Old TV sets were not designed to convert the extra information, so you had to get a converter box or newer TV. Unethical marketers and salesmen count on people not knowing an HD antenna does not exist, so they can sell you something you don't need. If an HD antenna was real, then you could call a metal coat hanger an HD hanger, if you can jam it in the coaxial port it send the signal to the TV just the same, just not as good as an antenna 30 or 40 feet up. Cable companies made the confusion much worse, my local cable and internet company were telling everyone they could, that they had to pay for cable because even if they buy a new TV, their old antennas wouldn't work anymore and cable was the only way to watch TV. Who knows if they were lying or just stupid, but in 2019 I returned their cable modem because I bought my own, to stop paying their rental fee, and the 3 people working there tried to convince me I had to rent from them because using my own wouldn't work, until I told them it was already working. When trying to get me to buy their TV service as well, I told them I receive over 50 channels, which includes subchannels,with my 40' tower that was put up in the 1960's, then had another ten minutes of them telling me that's impossible because TV antennas don't work with the new signal since 2009. Don't let them con you into something you don't need.

Question 2

Does the  60 mile and the 75 mile have the same dB?

Accepted Answer

No, they don't. The 60-mile antenna (DATBOSS Mix) is a smaller antenna with a passive mode gain (amplifier OFF) of 16 dBi on UHF. The 75-mile antenna (DATBOSS LR Mix) is much larger and it has 18 dBi of gain in passive mode. In active mode (ampliifier ON) they have 41 and 46 dBi of gain respectively. This data is for UHF only.

Question 3

Any problem with installing the unit upside down (longer array on the bottom)?

Accepted Answer

problem with getting a signal. I did better with a flat panel HD antennae that I hung in my window. it doesn't matter how you hang it.

Question 4

Can low vhf be added to this antenna? Receives high vhf great but need channel 4 low vhf.

Accepted Answer

• There are no VHF reception elements on this antenna. There's a fairly steep cutoff in reception dB specs below the UHF band. If you're getting high VHF channels with this antenna, it's most likely because their signals are in the upper part of the high VHF band (channels 10-13) and are very strong to start with.
• Low VHF is very hard to pick up at usable digital signal strengths. There's a few low VHF antennas out there. Look at their specs—their low frequency reception elements are very long, and must be. The wavelength of channel 2 (54Mhz) is over 18 feet long! So even a folded dipole would need to be more than 9 feet wide to properly receive all of the low VHF bandwidth. Most folks find that impractical to mount somewhere. If I may paraphrase a comment I saw elsewhere, if you need to receive low VHF TV signals from a long way off, your best bet might be to move.

Brand Name	Televes
Item Weight	5.79 pounds
Product Dimensions	45 x 29 x 22 inches
Item model number	149983
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer	No
Color Name	Silver / Orange

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TelevesDATBOSS UHF Amplified Outdoor HDTV Antenna LTE Filter (149983)

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