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dlgoff said:Very odd. I'd would just have to go and ask the residents of the home.
Baluncore said:Looks like a ClearStream 4 Antenna for Free Over-The-Air Digital and HD Programming.
It is operated with the reflector screen. The horizontal dipole is something extra.
Baluncore said:A fishing lure must be designed for two quite different functions. Firstly, most importantly to be commercial, it must catch a fisherman
jtbell said:I think the makers claim better performance in the VHF band than a traditional bowtie-plus-reflector design such as the DB2, enough to market it as a UHF+VHF combo antenna rather than as a UHF antenna that has some ability to receive VHF.
It came out a few years ago, around the time of the US analog-to-digital TV transition.
I feel sorry for all the folks that trashed their old UHF-VHF "analog" antennas. I'm receiving 45 digital channels with an antenna like this.Baluncore said:A fishing lure must be designed for two quite different functions. Firstly, most importantly to be commercial, it must catch a fisherman, then secondly, and of little importance is to catch fish.
Like a fishing lure, the thing that is really important in consumer antenna design is style and looks. It is most unlikely that the antenna performs better, but to be commercial it must look new and different.
It is probably just an old style simple antenna underneath.
Don't get distracted by their marketing hype and the unusual plastic style.
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