Televes DAT BOSS Mix LR Low-VHF/High-VHF/UHF Antenna Review 

I have a story time related to this antenna: I was staying in the Phoenix area as I have some extended family who live in Arizona (an uncle of mine recently celebrated his 80th birthday this week) and I actually saw a TV-style antenna input for the FM section on a Bose radio in his house. That led me to think after getting into this video: are this antenna's low VHF (RF 2-6) elements tuned to also work with FM radio since it is so close to low-VHF TV in the United States?

I understand this antenna blocks FM signals so it does not interfere with VHF Low.

@@robertogalvez3865 That's too bad because were I to design an antenna for the North American TV region, I would tune the low VHF elements to receive FM radio as a single cohesive section tuned to 54-108 MHz, with the notable exception of the 4 MHz gap at 72-76 MHz.

link to the hi vhf version?

Will grounding pretext a Amplifier on your Antenna?

ABC is the American Brainwashing Company !!!

I'm having it installed in Bethlehem, Pa next week. Fingers crossed, because it didn't pick up abc6 from my yard ..hoping the final mount on the roof (about 30 up) will work

​@George Nassif ; So how did it turn out? .... Are you able the get the "trash" signal from ABC 6 with this antenna yet?

I have the same antenna, it has been great hanging out in my attic.

@@AlGoYoSu I don’t have an attic but it works great on my roof.

@@JoshRazauskas Mine's on the roof too. Works good, and doesn't look too 'antenna-ish'.

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Just wondering. Would that station be WCIA?

@@1L6E6VHF no CBS affiliate KDLO

How far are you from the transmitting towers?

I think this model should be "up to date" for a while. The updates came with the FCC repack a few years ago. It took a while for Televes to update their antennas because of supply chain issues.

What city are you in? Can you hit Madison and Milwaukee?

This feature is very helpful for people in heavily wooded areas where signals might otherwise be overloaded with multipath on windy days. It's not say it will stop drop outs in that situation entirely but it should limit them.

@@AntennaMan That's insightful to know. I'm not in a heavily wooded area here in Fort Lauderdale where there's many towers. But I am prone to winds causing signal breakup, presumably by blowing tree branches in the pathway, but yes, perhaps multipath, but I'm most intrigued because I have some towers very close where any amplification disrupts the picture, yet also, have access to some towers which are further away where subtle, smart amplification should be useful.

@@c2jones I'm in the exact same boat! Windy days cause pixelation on selected channels...but only on ONE of my TV's! (the one with the shortest coax that's closest to the antennas) I use 2 antennas for the scenario you described (one of them is a Televes). I've always wondered if my situation could also be multipath as well.

Thanks Ben!

Only if Televes sponsors it as my reviews of their antennas perform poorly compared to smaller, more popular antennas.

No, it just means that this one is a slightly improvement. If your current Televes antenna works fine you can keep it.

Just note: (It's an indoor/outdoor antenna) it's installed outdoors. It's original version only works with it's own amplifier, now it works with or without the amplifier. I modified it by removing the chip and replacing it with a 300 ohm to 75 ohm transformer by soldering the antenna element with two antenna wires to the transformer and plugged in to a coax coupler and sealed it with waterproof silicone, that's how I modified it myself.

This is no longer the case thanks to a ton of interference from electronics that didn't exist 70 years ago

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The distance was shown on the chart of TV stations but it's about 45 miles.

I don't believe so. To get better high VHF reception you need more high VHF elements on an antenna.

That and everyone seems to hate big antennas cus they're "ugly"

Not really. UHF still has less distance coverage than VHF High or VHF Low, they can run a million watts and still miss the valleys. The exception is tropospheric refraction conditions. These are abnormal propagation conditions, in which TV signals can follow the curve of the earth between two layers of different layers of air. In one case, I (in Michigan) saw Little Rock (AR) stations on Channels 4 and 7, even as a channel 7 station in Evansville (IN) could not be seen, having been caught inside the duct.

My area has two stations that have been on VHF-Hi channels all their life, even on digital today (11 and 13).

And the sad thing is that the FCC still doesn't get it, it doesn't matter if it's digital or analog those are RF signals and they will travel the same regardless of how they are modulated and we all know the higher the frequency the shorter the wavelengths get and in order to cover the same area you need more power and even if they say a million watts digital is equal to 5 million watts analog is a bunch of bull because it's still a radio wave and it still reacts the same regardless of if it's digital or analog and the only reason why VHF Low is being called trash is because it's more prone to interference than VHF Hi or UHF which at the current power levels would make digital transmissions worthless and all TV channels are subject to trop and e-skip the only reason why we have the trash channels of 2-6 is because of the lobbies in Washington that are backed by the cable TV and satellite providers because they know going in that their service was far superior then over the air broadcast signals but when the government mandated that TV stations go digital in order to provide high-definition that's when the death cry was sounded for cable and satellite because TV stations didn't need to invest heavily in their over the air facility because they were getting big bucks from cable and satellite in retransmission fees and they only needed to provide a high quality signal to the cable or satellite headend because the number of people that were getting TV through an antenna had been dropping like a rock to the point where almost everyone was hooked up to cable or had a satellite dish soap the regular over the air TV using an antenna was becoming a dinosaur, so the government in a last ditch effort to save broadcast TV from becoming pay only came up with the idea of going digital and hi-def and that meant that TV stations didn't have to rely on cable and satellite for the money needed to stay on the air they could rely on advertising for that like it's always been, but when the cable and satellite lobbies seen how much better than quality of the over the air signal was to what anyone would get from cable or satellite they started shaking in their boots because now the TV stations themselves were going to pose a real threat to the wellbeing of cable and satellite TV so they had to get their lobbyists in Washington to do something to make Congress pressure the FCC to do something, and what they came up with was to on purpose degrade TV signals to the point where nobody would have a choice but to get cable or satellite and the way the FCC did it was by making every full power TV station digital just to appease the broadcasters and by making all TV low power TV so the cable and satellite providers are happy because by keeping everything low power it basically makes every TV signal trash especially on VHF-Low (channels 2-6) and add in the crappy 8VSB modulated scheme, where if they had just went with COFDM like the rest of the world and kept the power levels the same as they were during the analog era Channels 2-6 wouldn't be trash because every TV station on 2-6 would still be running 100 Kw instead of 20Kw (7-13 would still be at 316Kw and not the 36Kw now and 14+ would still be at max 5 Mw and not 1Mw) because it would take into account for terrain and the limitations of the RF signals

Yes, you can put any antenna in the attic.

@@AntennaMan right now I am using the GE Pro digital antenna rated for 80 miles upstairs in my house, but I assume if I had a quality antenna Like TheTELEVES, being it has the preamp and filters on it would work much better, Less Pixculation , then at some point I could put it outside

The directional antenna is just what you need for distant stations. It prevents noise from the side and back from messing up the signal.

Right on the money! This a Long Range (LR) antenna and it needs to be highly directional to do its "magic".

@@robertogalvez3865 Yep, a perfect antenna to put on a rotor.

@@kensmith5694 Still a little too directional to be permanently fixed in one direction as this is definitely the type of antenna you will put on a rotor.

@@jamesm568 That is only true if the stations are spread apart. For many in suburbia and slightly rural areas, all the stations they can get are nearly in the same direction. For some all the distant stations are in one direction and a few others are in a very different direction. For them a 2nd antenna is better than a rotor. If stations are in 3 or more directions, then it is time for a rotor.

Nah ... This antenna only supplies two direct outputs from coax outlets on the power inserter. So you're still going to have to use a 2 x 1 splitter on one of the lines.

No it won't work well with FM because there's an FM trap built in to improve tv reception. Maybe purchase a separate antenna for FM

See video below: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-06X-MXUfU1U.html

Which channel is that?

@@AntennaMan KDLO in South Dakota I think?

@@AntennaMan I guess your right I just assumed it was RF 3 given it is on 3-1. I knew RF channel was different than the call letters, but apparently it's different than the actual station number on the TV set.

@@ASMRPeople WWMT is actually on RF channel 8, which is hi-VHF

@@Hogstuff NBC wood TV 8 is on RF channel 8. Perhaps WWMT is on RF channel 8 in kalamazoo.

Correct, this is a good antenna that's "future proof"

You do not need to upgrade your antenna as there are no low VHF channels in your area.

Contact 6ABC and complain as they're neglecting their signal. They've been "working" on a power increase for the last five years.

@@AntennaMan thanks. Worst case I'll use the Antenna' Direct clearstream that i bought from your links (before i realized WPVI needed a low VHF antenna and bought this one) and just use the 6ABC app for local news. So surprised that a station like 6ABC has a crap signal. Anyway... Love your channel! So much good info!