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    Winegard LNA-200 Boost XT HDTV Preamplifier, TV Antenna Amplifier Signal Booster, HD Digital VHF UHF Amplifier (10x Power, Low Noise, 20 dB Max Gain) - USA

    • Antenna pulls in all the available channels.
    • and I did not lose a single channel.
    • You should be able to receive 40-60 channels free
    • You can't beat the price and the ease of installation to save a ton of money and still have the convenience of quite a few free channels.
    • Boosted the signal on the channels I already had and gained channels I didn't have before.
    • 43 channels total and all beautiful.
    • I was hoping it would pull in channel 2 as well, but I'm only seeing that station on rare occasions, mostly at night.
    • After adding this PreAmp: I am getting a solid 34 digital channels on all three TVs using a splitter.
    • Per a recommendation from a friend, I went and purchased this to install between the antenna and the TV tuner, and all the channels are now crystal clear
    • Installed the Winegard on roof pole, pointed in general direction of TV tower and instant clear, beautiful color in HD, all channels, better picture then my paid service
    • A total of 47 absolutely free channels
    • there are rare exceptions to the rule of the more aluminum you hang in the air the more channels you receive and I can tell you this antenna is at the top of the select few for the best deep fringe reception
    • I had doubts if this amplifier would improve any weak channel
    • The OTR Antenna was already working pretty well, but bad weather would pixelate a "strong" channel or two.
    • Tried several things to bring in a difficult channel to receive.
    • Get over 15 channels in three states, cool.
    • We've had a Mohu indoor antenna for a couple years knowing we were missing channels, but then picture would pixilate randomly depending on weather and the season -- even with a signal amplifier.
    • I live In a Cleveland suburb and it received all the free channels including the hard to get one that I was worried about like WVIZ, PBS.
    • Without moving my current antenna setup, I placed it inline, connected power as instructed and promptly lost most other channels.
    • This amp cleared up some weak channels for me.
    • Purchased this recently when I lost a major TV channel
    • Set up was easy, used my iphone's compass to point the antenna north, split the signal to two TVs and got much better signal strength and 9 more channels without even turning the rotator!Very pleased with this antenna!
    • Improved picture quality and more channels
    • We went from spotty channel performance to having 49 channels with excellent quality.
    • It all works beautifully: crystal clear HD picture and sound, TiVo two-week programming schedule, and four-channel DVR--just like cable, but no monthly fees.
    • We put the antenna back up without the amp and receive most channels, but we will have to get a new amp to receive a couple of weak channels
    • I could not get one of our local channels at all before the Boost XT but afterwards I am getting all channels clean and clear
    • I have been trying to find an amplifier that would help me recieve my Vhf- HI channels reliably but so far no luck
    • Before they would kind of "pixelate" and then the channel(s) would just be too weak to pick up
    • I went from a few channels that didn't come in well to all the good channels and more.
    • I get 46 clear channels with almost no pixelation
    • It works great, all the local channels are strong and stable.
    • It works great, all the local channels are strong and stable.
    • Now more flickering, did a new channel search and it picked up 4 new channels as well that I had no clue about
    • I waited for another foggy night to test it out and got 80+ for the worst channel
    • I checked my reception and to my suprise signal bars on all major channels was 100% and I pulled in like 26 channels.
    • The issue about signal reception is if the channel you want is too strong
    • I got some dropouts on a weaker channel during the day.
    • I was able to receive all the channels available in my market
    • I have a run of 30 foot and it royally improved my signal for the weak channels.
    • Some channels would be fine for days, then suddenly flake out
    • I've installed about 4 of these with good antennas Channel Master CM-4228HD High VHF, UHF and HDTV Antenna with good success at over 60 miles.
    • especially if you point it south then find your worst channel and have somebody watch the TV while you direct it
    • I got up to 39 clear HD channels instead of the 12 channels without this item
    • Should of got rid of cable and satelite long time ago .Theres so many free channels in HD that you wont miss out on anything
    • Was able to pickup all the available channels for our area
    • I paired this with a Clearstream C2V-J3 antenna, Every channel is vivid, works in a very fringe area.
    • Could not see any difference in the signal strength, in fact I actually lost channels that I received without the booster.
    • Cleaned up the weak channels and added some that were further away
    • After about a month suddenly many channels were missing
    • My setup - Separate UHF, VHF Antennas spaced about 5 feet apart on the same mast on roof top, two Winegard preamps one for each, Channel Master rotor, Quad shield RG6 Cable, Channel Master Ultra Mini 4 distribution amplifier and an Ultra Mini 1 for a long cable run to separate garage,
    • This antenna is supposed to be extended range and has great reviews, so I got it to improve reception of marginal channels.
    • did not pick up channels very good.
    • Sucked, I got 3 channels with this
    • With the preamp, I get all of the available channels from the transmitter with 100% signal strength and perfect quality.
    • Installed product and lost 2 channels
    • This Winegard booster not only picks up all of the other channels the RCA would pick up, but it picks up 3 NBC channels well and a few other channels- 42 show up in my scan which is amazing
    • If I turned it an inch or two I would lose those channels and pick up a different channel
    • when it is connected, I lost the one channel I could receive in the family room.
    • I had one UHF channel that is real channel 45 in my area, and even at 20 DB, the pixelation was so severe that the channel was unwatchable.
    • and it actually made me lose channels????
    • All the channels are clear now!!!
    • Strong signal (got some missing channels back after older cheapo amp burned out).
    • I put this one inside my attic and it was able to get ABC as well as 10 other channels.
    • With this winegard i picked up the missing channels and got four more including the local channel i was missing.
    • Put it on the roof with a temporary mount (just a pipe stuck in the old DirecTV mount) and got an amazing 26 channels without amplification.
    • This works great gained ten more channels and stabilized the rest for grand total of 40 channels
    • This works great gained ten more channels and stabilized the rest for grand total of 40 channels
    • I pick up all HD channels and some analog, total about 70 channels enough to keep me entertained including ESPN
    • It was an important channel - so it did what I wanted.
    • After running 50' of cable to the TV, I got 10% to 20% signal strength on three previously unavailable channels
    • Live in the woods 40 miles from any station and are able to get 16 clear channels.
    • easly installed once I purchased a coax cable from antenna to preamp helped me receive more channels 50 to 60 + miles away good purchase thanks
    • I also had added a Channel Master LTE Filter to the VHF Antenna that the 7777 was connected to and it degraded the signal even more
    • Unit did nothing to improve my signal; As a matter of a fact, it actually killed some channels altogether.
    • I now get 31 stable channels despite being 50 miles away from the transmitters.
    • I saw a 64% improvement on my problematic channel, and signicantly stronger reception on most other channels
    • The old channel master,radio shack and yes the old WINEGARD!!
    • with this amp, the 4-6 cleared up and another 2-3 channels became usable with little pixelation.
    • Sometimes the weaker ones come through, although now that the leaves are back on the trees I've lost all the pbs channels.
    • But lost some HDTV channels the old analogue antenna was getting.
    • All channels come in chystal clear.
    • Lost 16 of 19 channels with it connected regardless of power off or on
    • awesome no channels in-till i turn on the
    • This YAGI unit performs better than my expensive Channel Master 4-bay antenna!
    • Purchased the Winegard antenna and booster from Amazon for basically the cost of a 1 month Direct TV payment and now enjoy 57 FREE HDTV channels!
    • The TV transmitter is about 55 miles from my house, and without the preamp I only get around half of the available channels with around 75% signal strength and intermittent quality.
    • Next I tested it on the patio, and it picked up every local channel strong and perfectly
    • I had a really hard time getting solid reception for any channels for years now--even the best channels being pretty choppy cutting out constantly
    • I'm 27 miles from the T.V. towers and could never get channel 2 (NBC) with any other Walmart brand antenna and the other channels were always breaking up
    • I have tried several other more expensive antennas in my attic (our HOA says no outside antennas, although they're legally not allowed to do that), and this Winegard picks up all my UHF digital channels along with WESH the best.
    • More clear channels without interference.
    • all my existing channels are crystal clear with no pixelation and no signal/no signal
    • but I do get 11 crystal clear channels all in HD
    • Use it in the St Louis area, we are about 25 miles from the towers, pulls in all available channels
    • I am picking up 45 channels in the Atlanta area, extremely clear!
    • The channels that were not previously viewable came in crystal clear and the channels that Macro-blocked from time-to-time are now solid
    • Every channel in my area now comes in crystal clear (something like 64 total although many are worthless).
    • Over The Air channels available in my area.
    • I was getting more channels with just the channel master pre amp but then lost them
    • Very clear channels
    • In fact I lost most channels vs. getting back the ones I couldn’t
    • when I do there are more channels available south of me
    • Adding this amp fixed the problem on TV #2 but did not introduce noise which could potentially degrade other channels.
    • We installed the LNA-200 and it not only cleaned up the channels that were shakey but also pulled in three more lower powered ones as well
    • I lost all channels
    • This slightly increased my signal strength across the board, and just enough to gain another 2 channels.
    • (I would randomly lose channels which is why I bought this).
    • The reception got a little better in the attic but also lost quite a few channels
    • Picked up no new channels, lost a few, and the ones taht did come in were spotty. .
    • Not completely but severely cutting signal strength enough to not get 2 channel groups ( total of 5 individual channels) and cause 3rd and most important channel group to constantly drop below 20
    • I dislike it because I actually lost channels
    • Maybe mine was defective, but I actually lost channels after installing this
    • I kept thinking I needed bigger and bigger antennas, and placed these antennas higher and higher into the air to lock on firmly to my weak channels, when all I needed was a quality preamplifier like the Winegard LN-200 to eliminate my interference issues.
    • With this product added to my Clearstream 2V antenna, I went from one working channel that froze occasionally to 33 perfect channels with no freezing or pixelation
    • 2 channels were made unwatchable, whereas one was perfect and the other one would pixelate every minute
    • I then installed the amp and found we boosted reception signal by either 5 or 6, we did rescan, and the two channels were now available on each set, and they were still available for lease (head scratcher)
    • Prior to installing this pre-amp, the HDHR software was showing that our strongest channel was coming in at 77% strength with others in the 60's, 50's 40's and as low as 38% strength
    • we average 101 channels + great HD reception and stability
    • I recieved roughly 34 solid digital channels with a single TV
    • 37 channels perfectly clear on 1 tv(maybe 20' away from antenna.
    • This amplifier took us from 5 channels to 15 really strong channels in southern Delaware.
    • With the Winegard LNA-200 Booster I gained several more hdtv channels over what I had just with my antenna.
    • When I hooked up the winegaurd antenna and ran a channel scan, it picked up 23 channels (which is all the channels available in my area.
    • I am only about 25 miles the towers and get great reception and several channels (including
    • This amp cleared up some weak channels for me.
    • Free channels near Greensboro:2.12.2 - weather4.1
    • I lost more channels that I gained.
    • If it fails to help clean up the small hiccups I get, and not lose me channels.
    • LOST 9 channels!
    • (Towers are 30 miles away)I can get about 22 channels clear except for NBC
    • I installed this "LNA-200 Boost XT" on my existing antenna and went from two weak channels to 29, most are full strength according to my TV
    • It helps a little, just enough to improve the signal strength to keep my OTA reception comfortably above the pixelating threshold on a couple of problematic channels.
    • Now we get all of these cool channels we didn't know we could get
    • All channels are noticeably better and more stable
    • The antenna is aimed precisely at 178 degrees so local channels are not as strong as Sacramento channels but very watchable almost all the time.
    • I live In a Cleveland suburb and it received all the free channels including the hard to get one that I was worried about like WVIZ, PBS.
    • Channel Master CM-4228HD High VHF, UHF and HDTV Antenna 
    • This one is great because i got several new channels but one of the old channel that was previously working
    • This is the only one that pulled in all 45 channels available
    • Every channel was improved by at least 30%
    • Channel 17 (RF) or Virtual channel 56 from Indiana comes in very well now.
    • I put up a HD8200U and now we have over 40 channels loud and clear
    • I had doubts if this amplifier would improve any weak channel
    • Didn't work for us, didn't get any more channels than with the inside antenna we have.
    • This antenna gives me 33 clear channels
    • it pulls some great channels
    • The one positive is that a channel scan with the unit did allow me to pull in a few extra channels; the negative is that all the channels I receive with or without the unit show less interference when I remove it
    • It replace a Channel Master 7777 that died on me
    • I think there was one strong channel that overloaded it, but in any event, It did not work out.
    • this product did not work for me...actually fewer channels after install than before
    • No static channels with this one.
    • Not all channels are reliable, but most of them are
    • I run three TVs on this and have great HD 56 channels
    • I receive 38 crystal clear channels
    • This antenna has worked great,I get over 45 channels with this antenna and would recommend anyone to buy this antenna if you are looking for a HD antenna.
    • This antenna has worked great,I get over 45 channels with this antenna and would recommend anyone to buy this antenna if you are looking for a HD antenna.
    • 4 TVs have 85 clear channels.
    • I needed to boost Channel 17 (57 miles away) in Indiana
    • and had25 good channels but missing a promenant local channel.
    • and it even cleared up some of the unwatchable channels a bit (while still unwatchable)
    • I was hoping to be able to pick up more channels by rotating my antenna but so far no luck.
    • In fact, like some other reviewers I lost channels
    • I have about ten weak channels which most will play all the time and some will occasionally break up.
    • Now I get FOX and a couple other channels that were spotty as bright as day, but have lost PBS and NBC that were formerly the clearest channels.
    • Many other channels now come in perfectly that barely worked before
    • Worked with in attic antenna to help bring in a few more channels.
    • I know I live in a very rural state, but upon hook up I lost channels for about 3 weeks
    • It does boost the two VHF channels i wonder if it was a return to begin with
    • Once in a while, during certain times of the day or weather conditions, I do lose one or two channels, but by slightly rotating
    • This antenna picked up 77 channels on one TV using Channel Master OTA cable box and 79 channels in my bedroom
    • The weakest channel I receive shows about an 8 on a scale of 1 to 10 for signal strength.
    • Check TvFools for any available channels in your area
    • I have eight TVs in my house and I am 60mi from the TV stations so without an amp at the antenna, some channels were too weak to see when they went thru the 100ft of coax
    • I get a total of 32 or 33 channels, all but 4 of which show a good channel strength
    • A few channels are unreliable but nothing I need to have
    • Winegard did not capture any additional channels and it did not improve over Motorola on any channel
    • It cut out certain channels during rain and wind, other channels were just weak
    • would not work no channels with this hooked up
    • A number of marginal channels now come in very good.
    • That actually was good enough by itself just getting the amp within 3 feet of the antenna to pull in even my weakest channel
    • It help get reception if all available channels in my area and quadrupled the signal strength compared to no amplifier!
    • After giving up on cable completely, due to the expense, and the innumerable, useless channels full of nothing, we decided to "cut the cord", and simply watch regular TV
    • Using the Winegard, I received and 20% increase in signal strength and ~8% increase in signal quality ... which was just enough for me to get a consistent solid lock (you need to be above 50% signal quality for a solid channel lock).
    • I lose every UHF channel when hooked up
    • Two local news stations,including the one from 2 hours away (we have a translator/repeater maybe 25 miles away), PBS, Create, World, National Geographic Channel, Movies! channel, and ME TV (awesome).It was like 1977 all over again, but instead of 4 channels we have 32 FREE channels - no cost except the antenna
    • Great picture and more channels
    • and now I have over 50 free TV channels.
    • Didn't give me more tv channels , but it completely stopped pixelation on the channels i have ( 45 channels ) great addition to my outdoor antenna !!
    • Immediately & completely lost the two high VHF channels, UHF all ok.
    • I've had it in service for about a week now, and for my application, it's working just as well as the Channel Master.
    • Still, havinh a mix of UHF and VHF at both hi and low frequencies, I was not satisfied with channels like PBS-12 out of Phila (a notoriously difficult channel to grab).
    • Checking the same set, with a four splitter installed, came up now at 90 in strength and a 70 channel scan of available channels
    • Now I get FOX and a couple other channels that were spotty as bright as day, but have lost PBS and NBC that were formerly the clearest channels.
    • A great product i went from having 4-5 channels cutting in and out to having more than 30 crystal clear channels!!
    • I have 18 crystal clear channels with no amp and leaves are in the trees like a jungle
    • In fact, like some other reviewers I lost channels
    • I had a really hard time getting solid reception for any channels for years now--even the best channels being pretty choppy cutting out constantly
    • overall, I went through my channels on a usual antenna setup then connected the amplifier and receive a way better channel quality with much less signal
    • and had25 good channels but missing a promenant local channel.
    • I think the 18dB may have been too much amplification for my TV tuner, and the strong channels were overamplified somehow causing the tuner to reject them
    • It works very well without pre-amp, all channels available in Bay Area are available.
    • After this connection I double my available channels.
    • Works great, Paired it with an antenna in my attic and I can now get all the channels available in my area
    • 90%, an amplifier might not make any difference as you can't improve on that for a digital signal
    • The signal was great but when we added a splitter, the signal deteriorate a
    • The antenna was missing a
    • so out goes the device; disappointing as this is one of the first items from Amazon that didn't work as it said it would.....