There's a full range of RCA antennas to handle all kinds of reception and installation needs. The indoor antennas feature technologically advanced engineering, along with contemporary styling to allow you maximum effectiveness without interfering with your home decor. Also, all indoor antennas come with the necessary hook-up accessories for immediate and easy installation.The ANT1250 features an integrated 3-way switch for switching between antenna and cable or satellite, an integrated hook-up cable and low noise insertion loss. No assembly is required. It also has isolated dual UHF and VHF gain controls, noise filtration and an LED power-on indicator. A UHF loop tilts 180 degrees and rotates 360 degrees.
1 A great antenna
This antenna is an excellent antenna. It took me 45 min to adjust the antenna and the knobs. But after that, I got the best reception and clarity you can get. It may take a while, but when you are done, you will have a much better picture resolution than cable of satillite dish. When you find the right adjustment, you will not need to mess with the antenna poles ever again.
2 returned it
I bought 4 amplified antennas to test which one worked the best for home. This was the most expensive one. The first thought was it has got to get better than this. I had to keep changing it to get a good picture, and to many times. It is not were close to cable. Audio was good, but so were all the others. I took this one back, but I kept a GE.
3 RCA Amplified ANT 1250
All in all the antenna works great. I was able to receive four additional channels that I was not able to see before. The only drawback, I just hate to fiddle with setting the reception for each channel. I was spoiled using the no longer marketed Jensen940 amplified antenna which had a feature to remember the signal settings for each channel watched. This antenna would be a perfect one if it incorporated that feature!! As far as performance, considering it has 45 db amplification, it works much better than most on the market. The receptions are clear with very little, if any, ghosting on the channels once you set the dipoles. I have tried other brands and found their performance lacking; so of course, I took those back. Looks like this one is a keeper.
As far as price, Target has a very reasonable price of around $28. I have seen this priced much higher, which to me is a price overkill considering the RCA ANT1250 has no electronic features for it's operation.
4 junk
I bought this at walmart and it just plain dosent do what it says. I get better reception with my rabbit ears that came with my tv. Buy something else this one is going back.
5 Defective power source
The power source does not work, and I have been having a heck of a time finding a replacement. Also, my reception is worse with this antenna when it does work.
6 Great features, but where's the 45dB?!
I bought this antenna (for the bedroom) because of its 45dB power more than anything else. I already had a Philips/Magnavox antenna (for the living room), which i believe is less powerful, but it actually performs less well than the Philips.
The switch on back is unlabeled. I don't understand why someone would make a switch with no label. I know it's on when the power light is on, but there are 2 on modes: cable and air. The way it seems to work is the middle is on air. If it's off, that means signals can pass through, according to the manual. You can move practically every part of the antenna around, but i have to do it far too much for my taste.
This price is the same as what i pad at Target. It's ok, but i bet a cheaper one would perform as well.
7 WOW! Works great for me!
I picked this unit up after seeing this working at my local besy buy, I bought this for HDTV broadcast only, no need for analog stations, I live 20-30 miles from all the HDTV stations be me, Placing this antenna on my enclose front porch and running cable to the basment, I receive ABC, NBC, CBS, and FOX all in HD!! Great for the price!
8 marginal at best
I have an unamplified directional set of rabbit ears which works just as well, and in some cases better.
9 Best rabbit ears!
These are the best rabbit ears I have ever hooked up to my tv!
10 Depending on where you live, this may not help you
I recently purchased this item hoping for better reception and less tin foil for my home in the hills of Los Angeles. If you live in an area that is hard to get a signal already, this item is not going to help you much. Compared to my other antenna with out the tin foil, initially the reception was a little bit better, but not enough to get a clear picture or audio, and I could only receive about 2 of the 5 local channels. With tin foil, a lot of tin foil, I can almost get those 2 channels but with less than perfect picture quality. I thought having UHF and VHF dials and being able to control them manually would have a better impact on my picture and sound, but I find that I have to keep them both on MAX. Not an impressive difference from the other power antennas with only signal strength dials to keep me satisfied. Again, I live in an area that is almost impossible to get a signal, so this product might perform better in more urban areas.
11 ok but needs a little force
I got this antenna because I have DISH Network and they don't offer local channels so I wanted the local channels to look like digital from the antenna and this was on sale. It also shows a graph, but I can't believe its the truth but its a LIE! I rather get a $100 or a $200 antenna more than this. Also, I rather trade this with a 10 year old tv because it don't work like the way I wanted it to work. The only good thing about this is that its on SALE! Its on sale because no one bought it!
12 yeah, beats a bare wire
Like other reviewers, I found it requires constant adjustment for the UHF loop, even though all my UHF stations broadcast from one of two locations within about 20 degrees of each other.
Also, while the gain on the amplifier is adjustable (and adjustable separately for VHF and UHF), it is not adjustable down to zero; you must turn it off using a very stiff, teensy tiny fiddly little 3-way switch on the back (third setting was bypass, e.g. for cable).
Since some local channels (both VHF and UHF) are strong enough that even minimal gain setting was too much, my switch got a lot of use. But it broke after 2-3 months.
Why only 1 star? Because of the crummy design. Good signal quality (which it has, once adjusted) is the minimum expectation. I'd like to be able to easily use the device.
So I'm looking for a replacement.
13 better than a dangling copper wire
this is the first and only antenna ive ever owned. before I bought it I just stuck a copper wire into the tv input. the channels are much better now and some are cable quality with not even a single speck of fuzz. I also gained one channel that I never knew existed!!!
14 OK for the price
Generally a good antenna. I live in the Chicago land area and couple channels don't come out at all with my old out side antenna (channel 2 and 11). this inside antenna works better than my old outside antenna. Couple channels still don't come out very clear but very viewable. You have to adjust it a lot to get fairly clear pictures. Using flat sheet of tin foil on one of the arms improves my worst channels. My dad bought one and put it in his attic. After a lot of adjustments, most of the local channels come out clear. I think this antenna is as good as any outside antenna if you mount it up high in an attic. This will require some work to bring power to the antenna and run the cable down to the TV.
15 Okay but not great!
When I bought my new flat screen TV/VCR/DVD combo, I thought I would "upgrade" my antenna as well. I have to admit that I now receive two more channels and some of the others come in clearer now. The only thing I don't like is that every single time you go to a particular channel you have to fool with this antenna to get a clear picture. My old antenna once you set it for a particular channel, that channel always came in clear and maybe the others a little shadowy but it was always great for that channel. This one is not that way,if you set it say for CBS to come in clear and you surf the other channels during a commercial break when you come back to CBS you have to twittle with the antenna again to get it to come in clear even though you never touched it when surfing through the other channels. The non powered rabbit ears with the halo works just as well.
The positive is that Amazon's price was a lot less expensive than the competitions.
