RCA Compact Attic/Outdoor ANT705E HD TV Antenna Review 

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I'm not tired of hearing, "there's no HD antenna". It's a good reminder to me.

I bought this and installed in attic and a got many more channels than before with just rabbit ears. House is ~40 miles away from broadcast

Never tired of you educating us on the FACTS of antenna. Thank you for bringing the TRUTH!

I had bought that antenna about 3 months ago and the range said 70 miles. Well I live about 10 miles farther than 70 miles from our local TV stations. Around 3 days ago we had 50 to 60 mph winds dirt blowing like crazy and my TV still picked it up all 57 channels. Heck my cell phone wasn't even working in the dust storm. So I'm so happy with this antenna. It would be nice if it was Wi-Fi compatible. Take care for the video and letting us know about things.

I bought this antenna about 3 year ago on Black Friday at Home Depot. It performs well on both vhf and uhf at 25 miles. It is in my attic.

Our antenna and amp have finally died. Over the past 2 days we went from 28 channels to 5 channels to none. We are currently looking at this same antenna online and are about to go check it out in store at Home Depot. Thank you for the video, it has helped our choice a lot, as we are very poor and this $44 antenna will be replacing the $65 one I bought 8 years ago that was one of those plastic 150 mile ones you said DO NOT BUY lol. Appreciate all your efforts.

Keep up the good advice to counter the marketing scams, we all really appreciate it.

Good review Tyler. I've used this antenna with good results in metro Phoenix, AZ. Rf 8,10 and 12 are in use, along with UHF as well. Sturdy, compact and performs well, especially for its size! A very good buy!!

Thank you for your clear explanations and filling in the last detail. You nail it every time.

"There's no such thing as an HD antenna!" Words to live by. 😁

I think the Attic keyword, is that a lot of people do not realize you can put an antenna in the attic. Too many people think you can only use a small antenna indoors (same room as TV) or outdoors on the roof. Having an antenna in attic is a good sneaker way to hide outdoor antenna indoors. An antenna in attic will get better signal, than a smaller antenna in room with TV (larger antenna and higher up than floor(s) below it. 👍

I have this antenna model and live about 30 miles away from the broadcast towers. I get about 50 channels. I love it. Definitely recommend where it will work.

Excellent video as usual Brother. Keep up the great work.

I really enjoyed your detailed description of the VHF/UHF and debunking the HD Antenna. Thank you for taking on the giants of scams to *buy the best* when there isn't really a *best*. Keep up the great work and educating us on what is and what isn't true for tv reception. Love the phrase "There's no such thing as an HD antenna!"

I live about 20 miles from the Albany,NY antenna farm and this antenna has served me well. Installed it in my attic with an amplified splitter and I get all of the Albany stations, including the rather weak WYBN 14. Have also seen ch 28 Vermont PBS come in on a clear night, but antenna is aimed in the opposite direction.

I don't know if you're going to get this message, But I had been looking for a decent indoor antenna for my mom who had a stroke recently and needed to move to a different room in the house which didn't have access to the home's attic aerial antenna. She loves over the air TV, especially all the extra sub channels that you get with it. I tried everything that I could find. One day, I saw this very antenna at a discount store. I thought it was intriguing, but did not buy it. Ironically, as soon as I got home I got a notification of this video that you made for the exact same antenna. I took your positive review to heart, went back to the store, bought it and gave it to my mom for mother's Day. I only just had a chance to set it up for her, and it works great! It obviously doesn't get all the fringe channels at the roof aerial does, but it gets all the main channels that she needs now. This is the first indoor antenna that has worked for her for both VHF and UHF channels. It's much smaller than it appears on the video, and tucks away nicely in a corner of the room on a shelf. I'd say it's about 2 ft x 2 ft or so, so it's not so bad. Obviously it's not beautiful, but it is functional and convenient. Thank you for your review. I would never have gotten it without your advice, And it has worked perfectly for us. She thanks you, too. Now she can watch all the channels that she needs. I would like to add that I did buy an amplifier as well for the antenna. That did help stabilize the signals, But it wasn't entirely necessary. The antenna did quite well just on its own. Thank you again, and keep up the good work!

Great channel. You have taught me a lot about Antennas and converter/DVR boxes. Thank For all the great info. Really surprised so many manufacturers have false advertising ( "200 mile antenna" ). Yeah maybe if it was 200 feet high.

The review on this antenna is pretty accurate. I didn't expect much from the antenna when I bought it, but to my surprise it performs very well in the fringe area I live in, ...so overall it's a decent antenna for the price.

the best antenna salesman 😍😍😍

Folks he is right!!! An antenna picks up RF and thats it. "HD" stations basically convert their signal to RF and transmit it. Your setup recieves it and converts it back to HD. The main thing that dictates what an antenna can receive or transmit is its resonant frequency.

I replaced what I think was a GE, smallish with only a horizontal series of bars in an arrow shape, with this RCA. I ordered it from Walmart which has a slightly different model number, and in the Walmart photo had bright green plastic.. but the actual antenna has the light grey plastic like the one in this video (which is good, I didn't want bright green plastic on my roof). The channel I had previously seen reception scores of around 28-30 went right to 36 and the max reception bars on a Samsung TV. Same mounting location, and the previous antenna I specifically aimed to increase reception on that one channel. I just eyeballed the direction when I installed this one, and even with that, the score is way higher than I ever got with my old antenna. The build quality feels a little light, I just hope this thing lasts. I'm in Sacramento so there's no crazy weather. This antenna is quite a deal at $40.

Live in the Albany area. Bought this antenna on sale for $18 at Wal-Mart, very satisfied with it. Have all my local channels plus a channel in Utica, NY.

Its funny. I stumbled upon one of your video's 2 weeks ago when I was looking into a receive amplifier for my scanner antenna setup. Now I'm hooked!

This review helped me decide to get this antenna particularly how it gets better reception. Your extensive knowledge about frequency and range was very informative especially about making sure the antenna is pointed in the right direction where majority of the towers are. So I installed it in the attic, and used an app making sure it was pointed in the direction where majority of the towers are. Wife says the reception is better than the “leaf” one we had. “Thank You” for the help.

I truly thought you were going to bash the antenna that I chose, but to my delight you gave it a pretty decent rating it is definitely from Walmart I'm in an area where I have lots of interference as far as structures and Hills yet I seem to do quite well the thing that Drew me for this type of antenna that was the surprisingly good reception I got from one similar from Home Depot I think your assessments are spot-on.

Bought and installed this very model a few years ago. Single story home and mounted in the attic. Live in south Louisiana so high winds from hurricanes was a factor. One local station has trouble with signal depending on weather. Broadcast tower is far outside the parish/county. The local PBS stations also have some signal issues and I believe they too may be VHF. All other UHF stations have a more reliable signal. We do have trees behind our home to the south, no trees to the north. Few trees to the east and west. Even with the largest outdoor antenna and tallest pole available I remember having issues with signals from some stations in the 70s and 80s. Based on those experiences I feel this model antenna is doing fine for our needs. A larger antenna mounted in the attic may get slightly better signal but we don’t solely rely on antenna. We use it as an emergency backup. We tried the window cling antenna and they didn’t hardly work at all for us.

Thanks for the review of this antenna. It seems pretty good for the price in up to a moderate signal strength area, like I am about 30 miles from the Boston TV stations, and less than that to WMUR, on Channel 9, in Manchester NH, about 20 miles north from here in Nashua, NH. Ray.

I've had this antenna for a few years now. I have it on a 30' pole outside with about a 100' cable run on 2 TVs with an RCA signal booster. I am able to receive all of the channels in my area including 2 towers that are 2edge.

Thanks for sharing your information and videos.

I love watching your videos.👍

I use this inside my apartment on a four foot wood stand. It works good I move it around the floor to pick up some channels.

To get technical, what matters with the antenna is only the carrier frequency (e.g. the RF channel), not the type of modulation. HD and 4K are modulation schemes, which don't matter at all as long as the antenna can receive at the respective carrier frequency. Modulation uses a certain bandwith, but not nearly as much as what the antenna covers.

Looks like a good antenna for some. Thanks for sharing.

I bought one to put up on my tv tower so that it can recieve my Youngstown tv stations. Hopefully it will work. I've got two others that will be pointed into other directions, one for Steubenville, Ohio, one for Pittsburgh and they are log periodic antennas also bought at Wal Mart, made by RCA.

As always, EXCELLENT INFORMATION and PRESENTATION. Thank You Kindly. Best Regards.

Nice review and information. Thanks.

with this antenna I sprayed all the plastic parts with spray paint as its outdoors in FL sun. Its design should do well in high winds too. Does well on channel 3 200mhz, and 8,10,13 for me 40 miles. Best antenna for $ and has mount.

This Antenna rocks, its only love

Thanks for the education. And most of sharing your vast Knowledge.

I've seen that antenna at Walmart and wondered how good it was. Good video.

I have this antenna, and I would highly recommend it. I'm actually shocked to see it performed almost on par with the DB8e. I removed the VHF elements (making the antenna smaller) because there are no VHF broadcasts in my area. It did not affect UHF performance and may have even slightly improved it. I mounted this antenna indoors in a 2nd-floor vaulted ceiling space. Even with the attenuation, my receivers show 70-80% signal quality 12-18miles from the TV towers. My Samsung TV gives the quality in SNR, and major channels come in at 31-35dB.

in South America the UHF signals from channel 21 to 52 are used (ISDB-TB)

Great antenna, especially for the price

Without watching the video, this antenna will last longer and get better reception than one of those other 16K, 1,000 mile range rated antennas. Edit: just finished watching the video. That antenna would work for me, I am just under 40 miles from Chicago. Great review!

I got this antenna on a pole in the back yard it works pretty good we have lots of trees and were in a valley.

Good video! - What is max length of RG-58U from antenna connection to set requiring no amplification on line run? Thanks for your videos

Good antennas to combine if you live between markets.

Watching yet again.

Tyler maybe you could offer some discussion on life expectancy of some outdoor products ie antennas, cables, preamps. Everything ages faster when exposed to the elements how do I decide when these things need to be replaced since with slow degradation It's difficult to notice the changes in signal strength.

I have tested the rca attic, the rca yagi, and the 8ft uhf only antenna's and this antenna is the best for size and money. It picked up everything the 8ft uhf only picks up. I am 50miles from Huntsville Al and it gets 29 channels.

Thanks! Good demo as always! BTW do you pick up Harrisburg as well as you do Philly?

Hello Tyler, thanks so much for your content, I very much appreciate it. I wanted to ask you about attic mounted antennas. I have concrete roof tiles. Would there be a lot of degradation in the signal received because of these types of tiles?

I have the very large RCA Antenna and Rotater . About 8 ft long. Worked great in AZ. Pointed toward Oatman booster stations about 15 miles away. Picks up Vegas and Phoenix stations. Nasty winds here have busted up the poor plastic on antenna and broke the crappy gears in rotater which I don’t need anyway. Have vise grips on pole now to keep wind from turning it. Still works with several rods hanging down. Hope to put it in high attic after trying to fix antenna. No parts available from RCA. NOT made for strong winds. Any advice from antenna man would be appreciated.

I'm OK with my satellite service, but I'd like to get FM stations out of Pittsburgh, 35 miles away. I'm on a high elevation with good sight lines in that direction, but built in FM antennas and table-top units don't get a very good signal. What kind of FM antenna do you recommend?

You know I have been watching for a while and you cover a message for all new cord cutters. That’s great. In my area I have 3 station markets in 3 directions. All about 35 to 60 miles away. Maybe a best way to do a multi antenna video? A rotator is ok but garbage at consumer prices.

Please consider showing us how to build a large, scalable, attic or eave antenna. All that space allows for a very large antenna.

Hi my towers are east and west 45 to 70 miles in linden tennesse i just bought this and will place it 15 to 20 feet in air and cross my fingers thanks for your super cord cutting videos .

I bought this antenna from Menards a few years ago. I tried it in my study (not in the attic) so that I can change the direction to attempt to get channels from different areas. I live 10 miles east of Rockford Illinois. This antenna would only pick up the CBS and ABC from Rockford. But, I picked up NBC, FOX, ABC, WTTW, and a few other stations from Chicago (which is about 50-60 miles away. Weird thing was that I picked up some Madison WI and Milwaukee WI stations. However, it did not work as well when I put it in the attic.

Used 1 of these for 2 years. Picked up UHF and VHF hi channels on a 2 edge path 40 miles away. Got an average signal strength of around 60%. Swapped it out for a larger antenna in order to pickup a low power station on the same 2 edge path and 40 miles away. I had it outside in full sun and noticed some degradation on the plastic parts. This antenna might be better suited for an attic installation.

I have an 8 bay digiwave antenna.I use a RG 6 cable from the antenna to my TV,however , inferior cables (small) on the antenna itself.Is that an issue ?

Do you review and talk about radio antennas as well? I'm talking 2-way ham-type radios. Or can anyone recommend a good channel for them. Thank you!!

So I’m looking to buy this antenna but was curious as to how it hooks up to your tv from outside? Does it come with a cable to tie into your existing cable line/do I need to buy a cable to connect the antenna to the tv or is it wireless

In one of your videos you said you have to scan for the channels but my tv doesn’t have that or it doesn’t say cable does that mean my tv won’t work and it’s not a HD tv . It’s a cheap older LED or should I get a new tv

Can I use the wrap around aluminum gutters on my house as an antenna?

Tyler, just wondering if you tested the antenna on WPVI, virtual and Rf 6??? The VHF folded dipole does seem to have a small amount of gain on low VHF......

Great help thanks

well... not necessarily. since attic antennas aren't exposed to the elements, they can be made of different material than outdoor and indoor antennas. Just need to stand up to the heat. I agree with you 100% that any good outdoor antenna should be fine in the attic. I like my GE attic antenna, although as you said, it isn't strong enough in my situation to be reliable. I've been curious as to the difference between the GE attic antenna and the GE attic/outdoor pro antenna. I like this one too. I'm on a moratorium from buying new antennas. don't wanna be divorced :-) Even though I'm only 28 miles from the towers, my house is over the hill and through the trees. I'm currently running the HDB91x, and I seem to have found the sweet spot. So far so good.

I hope you are able to answer this quick question. Can I put a splitter in this antenna so I can have two rooms connected to it?

I feel the attic marketing does work a little for this one, since it comes with specific mounting hardware.

Do You know what the channel info is called and how it is accessed better buy settings that are on the TV? and any other thing about this channel info thing... thanks bud' great pod cast!

Can you find out is there Asct 3.0 box converter you can put on asct 1.0 tv currently have a 65 inch 4k tv baught at walmart last year works good but station in the buffalo ny market just switched on asct 3.0 beside 1.0 would be nice to get a box you could add on especially that you can add which you won't need computer skills for older folks and folks not into computer skills ...would be great to see you doing a video on how to install ok thanks love your helpful videos ...

I can't get vhf with this antenna. The station I am trying to pickup is only 16 miles away. I've tried with and without a booster. Any suggestions?

I thought the review was well done and based on the review I bought the antenna. You should shop around though. Home Depot wanted $49.98 and Walmart $39.58. It took longer than I expected to assemble the antenna. The instructions were ok but could have been better; more on that later. Assembling the reflectors to the antenna boom was tricky. You had to hold on to the boom while installing the clamps and then insert the reflectors into the clamps. When I went to install the balm housing I was concerned that pressing it down over the boom might break it. And then to press down hard enough to seat it I removed the reflectors; so I would suggest you install the balm housing first. Attaching the UHF dipoles left me concerned about what side faced the reflectors since it seems that this would be critical to how well in function. As I assembled it I noticed that there was some error proofing; although it was not mentioned in the instructions and was not easy to see it. On one side of the flat surface that mounts to the housing there is a square corner and the other side a small chamfer, very small. My cable provider, WOW, is getting out of the cable business and encouraging customers to order RU-vidTV and use WOW for internet and phone only. I intend to use their coax to provide the signal to my TVs and still get RU-vidTV.

Did you move all new channels I live in the WBRE WNEP area i like the reviews in my area

One thing I have not seen you talk about is the Antenna towers that used to be on every home back in the day prior to cable. Are they still useful?

I wonder how good this antenna receives of its back end? I bought the small RCA Yagi antenna and pointed it NW, it works great but it also receives all the channels from 40 miles to the south. I would sacrifice a percentage of the receive if it meant getting 2x the channels.

Tyler, I’m puzzled by one thing. If UHF signals are picked up better by smaller antenna elements, then which feature(s) of an antenna should be larger to increase its ability to receive signals from further distances?

may be good enough for some

I live chula vista ca. I don't get cbs.what antenna do you recommend? Thank you very much for your advice.

I've been watching these videos for some time. I live in suburb of Austin and the broadcast towers are less than 20 miles away. Since we are renting the home I have not been able to put a roof antenna on the house, but I have rigged up an attic antenna. I seem to have a problem where the VHF channel is not clear. The underside of the roof is faced with a reflective material that I think is causing this. Is that likely the case? Even so close to the transmission source (about 17 miles)? If I tilt the antenna ever so slightly I can gain back the VHF channel but then one of the other channels fritzes out instead. The towers are literally right together - so strange that I can't get them all.

IMO this seems like a pretty good (outdoor) antenna for the price. Unrelated side note, every time i see one of your videos i rescan my tv antenna, just to see if anything has changed...LOL

I bought several indoor antennas and decided this model because of reviews and, RCA is reputable. The only station I wanted was Fox for football and no matter what I did I couldn't get it. I'm located in a valley and the Fox tower is about 30 miles away behind two 600 foot ranges. I originally mounted it to where my ex-dish was mounted on my roof and, although I gained some stations, I didn't get Fox. It wasn't as high as the peak of my roof so, I gorilla stomped the dish to make a base, drilled the mounting bracket into the dish, used some old garage door opener tubing to get as much height as I possibly could, and installed it in my attic. I wanted to be able to adjust it in case I needed to fine tune it. I went from 12 channels to picking up 63... I'm picking up everything in my area that is broadcasting. I came here to see if there were better models and you answered my questions. Thank you for your videos and all your hard work.

Tyler, it took me 3 weeks.. but I found the source of my RF interference which was DEFINITELY interfering with Low VHF .. this device is a household device that many people may have in their home. When this device is turned off.. Low VHF instantly reappears.. it's like magic! Even shieldedby 3 layers of aluminum this device emitted a distortion field of more than 100 ft.. even interfered outside the home on a walk around.. & it wasn't the SolarEdge Solar Pv.. 4-5 bars on pvi 6 now anytime with the attic WG 7000Y @ 131 ' ASL here .. getting a 2nd attic WG to try 4 Allentown fmz69 @ 54 miles 347° . Best, joe

More vhf power would be a dream. My channel 8 (WJW) has the tallest tower and the highest elevation spot, yet the best one that comes in is broadcast on 15. The big network that’s on 10 is the weakest, it’s 1 or 2 kW less than 8 because there is a 10 in Canada they are protecting it from.

Thank you.

The Televes LR MIX won't pick up upper VHF to save it's life where my Channel Master 3020 will. Also weird, I get better signal on the LR MIX from 62 miles away, 1000' above sea level, at 8 feet off the ground. FM buddy! Freaking Magic! lol Sometimes those cheap antennas do good. Those rotating ones are fair for FM, and the panel ones are good for LOS UHF. I'm finding I am getting multipath from WCTE, 42 miles away using either outdoor antenna. I've ordered a 1 by one panel model to stick in the window just for that station.

Thanks, as this one had me curious. Of course I couldn't justify the coin just to run an experiment.

In the game over50 years.. always found winegard. Antennas cost a lot more than th rest and was a little better than the others, in the day of early color tv a winegard. Made RCA antennas

i bought this antenna first time it gave me clear channels then they disapear? my close station is jackson tennesse. gonna pay $20 foir info

can You tell me what antenna I have by JPG?

What happened to the higher UHF channels? We used to get UHF channels 44, 56, and 68 in the 1980's.

stations are in jackson or nashville tennesse

How about how well tv’s do with antenna signals? I have 2- 42” tv’s that do well on cheap rabbit ear antennas, but my 65” sucks with an out door unit? WTF!

Would really like to see more "real world deep fringe" tests from 70 miles away from broadcast towers. At 42 miles a paper clip can get a signal

Thank you for existing lol I tried this and it wouldn't get channel 13 and 10 it's either or but not both .. Very annoying. I put it in attic so I guess I'll have it put it outside

As far as you know are there TV's now with integrated ATSC 3.0?

i had this it work really good first 2 days then lose signal. i need directional antenna with vhs signal help

Joke is,because you use "miles," not km for distances i got confused all the time. But from what i see,problem in U.S. is distance,and that is why all the 40-170 miles range antenna won' t work as promised from producer. But,i catch sometimes,two north neighbouring states,they' re 400,miles away,if i turn 200km in miles correctly,but not allways,i' ll ask antenna man from my hometown to help me with directions,to get best reception,maybe even those from 3rd neighbouring state. Keep good work,and thanks for usefull information that i can use here in Europe.

This guy just tells it the way it is without all the Bulls**t!💯