It is relatively unobtrusive and can possibly be wall mounted, although we ended up having to put it on the floor to get the best reception. It has a nice appearance.

We live in a one-story house, flat terrain, with lots of trees, about 15 miles from most of the TV towers in our area.

However the one that I received from Amazon was opened and used before.

Anyway I tried the unit out, it picked up very few channels even after positioning the unit in several different locations (up high, beside a window etc).

The older rabbit ears that I had picked up the same channels…

I ended up returning this unit (tks to Amazon and their awesome service), and I more recently purchased the Terk HDTVa antenna – now this unit works straight away and offers really good reception as well as picking up all available digital channels in my area tks to it’s design and that it has proper UHF and VHF antennas…This is the unit that I would recommend to others…

1. Not all digital signals are in the UHF band. In my area 2 of the 13 available are broadcasting in VHF, and they are major network (ABC, CBS) affiliates. VHF has a longer wavelength, and generally requires larger antenna elements than these, primarily UHF designed, antennas provide. Go to Antennaweb.org and check out the digital stations in your area. If any are VHF, you will probably want an antenna with VHF elements (aka “rabbit ears”). This is especially true if the “RF Channel” for a given station (also listed on Antennaweb.org), is 10 or lower. That said, the RCA antenna was the best of the bunch. It picked up the station on RF channel 12 flawlessly. The one on RF 9 was OK as long as the antenna was aimed out a window, and I didn’t walk in front of it. None of the others could reliably pick up the RF 9 channel. For comparison, my old rabbit ears picked up both flawlessly, but didn’t do well on the UHF channels.

2. All of the antennas I tried are fairly directional. All of the transmitters in my area are clustered pretty much in the same direction from my house, 210° +/- 10°, and 10 – 25 miles away. Lots of trees and houses in between, but no tall buildings. When I turned any of the antennas more than 40° off this 210° point I lost all but the two closest ones. The product description says you can lay the RCA flat. That lost me all but 4 of the stations.

3. Intervening walls make a big difference. Aiming the antennas through a window picked up most available channels (all of them with the RCA). Aiming them through an exterior wall took out about half the channels (3 of 13 with the RCA). This is probably because the wall, in addition to being brick, has insulation with a foil vapor barrier.

4. Height makes a big difference. Putting them on top of my stereo cabinet (4′ high) vs. on the floor next to it, had about the same effect as aiming through a window vs. wall.

5. Keep them away from metal. None of the antennas worked well at all on top of my stereo cabinet until I realized they were sitting on top of my (metal cased) DVD player. I moved it down a shelf so the antennas were sitting on wood, and they all improved tremendously.

To summarize, the RCA was the best of the antennas in this price range. If you stand it up and aim it toward the transmitters, through a window, it works well for UHF and high band VHF up to about 25 miles away. If your transmitters are in different directions, you may have to get two antennas and use an antenna combiner.