Winegard LNA-200 Boost XT Digital HDTV Preamp

Pros: It's an excellent pre-amp. I live over 50 miles from the TV stations in my area and they are in three directions with some at 180 degrees from each other. I installed two high gain directional yagi style antennas in my attic and had been using only distribution amps. Some of the stations were still weak so I bought two of these pre-amps to install near the antennas to feed the distribution amps. I now get all of the stations clearly even the ones I'm receiving off the back end of one of the antennas.

Cons: none

Pros: We live just under 30 miles from TV towers in our area. We use this LNA with an Indoor/Outdoor Clearstream 2V antenna that sat on a table by the window inside the house for 3 months before we moved the antenna outside. Our distribution system has a 1-to-8 distribution amp and from 20-50 feet of RG6 cable with additional 1-to-4 distribution amps in 4 rooms. Antenna inside, no pre-amp, we picked up 1 channel clearly, 3 with noise. With pre-amp 55 channels clearly Antenna outside, no pre-amp, we picked up 3 channels clearly, 9 with noise. With pre-amp 98 channels (12 over 120 miles away - due to the pre-amp/antenna combo)

Cons: None

Overall Review: Kudos to the technical rep for the antenna that we have and his suggestion use their companies Juice amp or the Winegard LNA 200. The Winegard 200 runs about $30 less and has better specs so we went with it.

Pros: It works. Helps with reception.

Cons: Didn't pull all the channels in.

Overall Review: It's a good deal.

Pros: Great product, easy install. Cleared up all the pixelization issues from several stations, pulled in 10 additional.

Cons: None

Overall Review: Absolutely recommend

Pros: Installation was OK. Price seemed to be fair.

Cons: It was a slow death. Worked fine for a couple of months. Then it started not working, some of the time, but only when I first turned on the TV. Then, today, totally dead. Trouble shooting eliminated the TV, and distribution amplifier Apparently I got what I paid for.

Overall Review: Not recommended. It died about 3 months after installation.

Pros: Amplified all the channels, boosting us up from spotty reception on about 5 to consistent quality on a 20+

Cons: It requires +2 cables to connect, because the power injector is separate from the actual amplifier. I think I'd rather just run power straight to the amp. Not actually a big deal.

Overall Review: - It comes with an unpictured USB-mini powered power injector. - The black box is far bigger than I expected.

Pros: Designed to mount on antenna mast using plastic zip ties. The power injector can be powered using the supplied AC adaptor or from a USB connector on your TV. I did not test my TV USB connector and this device. There is nothing to adjust, fine tune, or "tweak". Just connect up the various bits of hardware and cable.

Cons: It isn't free. It does not "work magic"; if the signal cannot be received before installation, adding this device probably will not help. If your TV coax cable "ends" are "bigger than normal", perhaps due to a plastic jacket, they may not make full conact within the amplifier's connectors due to raised plastic "guards" around the coax terminals. I had to trim my plastic "guards" so my coax cables would make "full contact".

Overall Review: My order arrived in a small box that contains the amplifier, instructions, "weather boots" for TV coax cable ends, a short (maybe 3 foot) USB cable, and an AC power adapter. My TV antenna uses a 300 ohm to 75 ohm balun so I needed a short length of TV coax cable with male ends on both ends of the cable to connect the balun to the amplifier. In my case I am feeding 3 TV devices through an unpowered TV coax "1-to-3" splitter so I needed another "male-to-male" TV coax cable to connect the power injector for the amplifier to the splitter. Be sure to rescan your TV channels after installation. I found new channels that I could not previously watch on TV due to low signal strength and at least 2 channels "moved". I did not see any visible "noise", "video tearing", or "poor TV image quality" after installation of this device.

Pros: Great item! easy to install.

Cons: none

Overall Review: none