Side by Side Comparison of: AmazonBasics vs GE

I'm 50 miles from New Orleans transmitters, so flat ground and few buildings. Antenna is mounted in attic about 11 feet above ground level with 20ft of RG6 cable feeding a single TV. I pick up every available New Orleans station at about 80% signal strength (TV has signal strength indicator bars). That is just enough to not have stuttering and drop outs in the picture. I have a signal amp available but don't have any reason to use it, yet. At 70% signal when I was holding antenna by hand at ground level just after assembly some of the channels would freeze or stutter.
Assembly was a little bit tricky because everything is so lightweight and I didn't want to damage anything. The picture on the box also helped when I was unclear about which part went where. Everything for assembly and mounting is included. You will need a Phillips head screwdriver and maybe a drill to attach mounting bracket to wooden rafter in attic. The supplied mounting screws are aluminum and too easy to strip the head off.
I was willing to spend $120 on a giant antenna but thanks to this excellent GE product I don't have to.
Description is very clear about indoor attic mount only. This antenna too lightweight and too fragile to survive unprotected outdoor mounting. This is back up in case the cable goes out so I can still get local news & weather.

I bought this antenna on February 27th ($39.50) and received it March 1st. Also bought the 4 Port Cable TV/HDTV/Digital Amplifier Internet Modem Signal Booster Internet AMP for another $26.17, then off to Home Depot for 25 feet of electrical wire, an outlet box, GFCI outlet, and outlet cover. Went to tvfool.com to check on the orientation. For the cable run, I used the existing runs that Dish had previously installed. Installed the outlet by taking power from the attic light. All told, it took about $100.00 and a couple of hours worth of work to get everything installed. Now I have ALL the local channels over the air (OTA) and Netflix, Amazon Video, and a bunch of other streaming apps on my smart TV if I want them.

But the biggest benefit is not having to pay $130.00 each month to Dish!! For less than 1 monthly payment up front, I am now saving $1560.00 a year!!

Works great. I live in the OKC area and have transmission towers in two locations that are separated by about 90°. By pointing a single unit to just one of the locations works for all of the stations fine while using a signal splitter.
No need to buy a pipe and floor flange for a mast...a mast and mounting hardware is included. Fairly light duty but fine for attic.

Easy to construct and install. Light weight makes it simple to mount most anywhere in ones attic and it isn't too large. I screwed a 2 X 4 flat between two trusses and mounted the antenna there so I can still adjust it if needed and out of the way do I don't hit it when storing items up in the garage attic. I did use a RCA TVPRAMP1R preamplifier with this and 50' of coaxial. I am picking up 44 stations with many of them 40-50 miles away. Granted it is flat around here and no big high rises or buildings in the way, but I was very impressed with the reception.
Before I installed it in the attic I hooked it up by itself to the TV and was picking up 16 stations without the preamp. This way I knew it would work before going through the hassle of installing it in the attic and finding out I couldn't receive any stations.
I used antennaweb to find the best direction to point the antenna and then Google Maps on my iPad to line it up.

I looked around at quite a few antennas on Amazon and ended up choosing this one. While the antenna was on the way I used TVFool.com to view on a map where different antennas are located in my area. I picked a heading with the most antennas and then averaged the heading from all of the antennas in that general direction.

Once the antenna arrived I put the thing together. It took about 15 minutes. Not the most straightforward assembly, but not too bad either.

After putting the antenna together I climbed up into the attic and installed it as high as possible. I used my iPhone to level the antenna and also to point it at the exact heading I had averaged out before.

Lastly, I scanned for channels on my TV. For the first half of the scan it did not pick anything up. I began to expect the worst. Shortly after the TV tuner began picking up all sorts of stations. In total I ended up with 68 total! Now a lot of these channels are terrible, but they're also free, so...

All in all I'm very happy with my purchase. I pick up all of the major broadcast networks, a few cool random networks, and some junk channels. I have had zero interference or drops in picture. I have since ordered an HDHomeRun tuner to pair with my 4th gen Apple TV. Between Netflix, Hulu, and the Channels App (getchannels.com) paired with this antenna, I'm set!

I am able to get 100% signal on all strong UHF stations without any amps and I even got a UHF station 67 miles away and that is with a powered distribution amp Channel Master CM 3412 2-Port Ultra Mini Distribution Amplifier for cable and antenna signals (CM3412) Although that far away station only shows 1-2 bars of strength so there was a bit blocking sometimes but this antenna is only rated for 60 miles so that is good and another UHF station from about 47 miles comes in better with 2-3 bars of signal without blocking so that is not bad for being mounted in the attic. Of course those channels only seem to come in when the atmospheric conditions allow them to and that isn't a negative for this antenna.The assembly of the antenna was not that hard at all and probably took me around 20-30 minutes. The VHF performance is only alright while the UHF is very good. Actually I now get the Hi-VHF PBS station with good signal once I moved the antenna around a bit. I believe the nuts for the VHF were not tight enough so don't forget to tighten those two nuts when you build this antenna. That is all I get on VHF though and I don't seem to get any weak UHF low powered tv stations either which isn't a problem as they are probably crappy ones but I'd say this probably should be rated at 40 miles to 50 miles and not 60 miles but still its pretty good if you have strong locals, now if you want to pick up very weak stations go for a different antenna and buy a pre-amp for sure. Overall not a bad value at $27 for my area as I pick up everything in green(indoor) and yellow(attic) in my area on tvfool so its working like it should.

This product arrived in a long rectangular box. It is not assembled and the enclosed directions were not a lot of help. By referring to the picture and counting the screws and bars, I was able to figure it out in just a few minutes. I live about 50 miles from the nearest broadcasting tower so I didn't have great expectations. The fact that I live in a mobile home doesn't help with reception. With that said, it does pick up at least 1 each for ABC, NBC, and CBS. It is laying on top of a wall unit, not mounted on a pole or in an attic. No, not the prettiest display but I'm sure Better Homes & Gardens won't be showing up asking to put my home on their cover. Seriously, it does exactly the job for which it was purchased. The 4 stars is because of the limited assembly information.

I'm pleased that I could get the 5 main channels I wanted to get (PBS, NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox) plus a couple of others. But just barely...I had to aim the unit exactly (direction and angle) to successfully receive all signals. I'm directly north or Boston, MA, but 26 miles from where all the transmission towers are west of the city. Handy reference:[...]

I give it max 4 stars because this certainly isn't a "60 mile range" miracle antenna. My area is only slightly hilly, and I located the antenna in the 3rd floor/attic area, 25-30 feet off the ground.

Also, my originally-ordered unit was missing two of the metal loop pieces -- thanks to Amazon for a quick and easy exchange.

I installed my new HDTV antenna in my attic in my two story home. I live 40 miles North East of Atlanta and now get around 35 digital TV and music channels. I mounted it as high up as possible in my attic, on a wood stud. It has a very nice adjustable mounting bracket. I also added a Reliable 4 port PCT MA2-4p amplifier and also installed in the attic, close to the antenna feed. I ran new RG6 cable feeds to each room from my attic and amplifier.

I'm really amazed how clear the channels are now for free. You have to adjust the position of antenna towards your city or broadcast station transmitters, while someone is watching the signal strength on TV setup, so you will get optimal signals. Overall I give antenna 4 stars due to the antenna being kind of flimsy due to plastic holders.

I now have TV channels in rooms not often used, without having to pay cable TV monthly box rental fee. I may end up adding the rest of my home TV's to new HDTV antenna and canceling cable service, if they go up again on monthly fee. :)

I wanted to cut the cord, but not give up football, so tried this to get the local channels. I use this in my attic attached to a 1byone OUS00-0293 preamp, connected to the Xbox One receiver and Xbox for pause function (and soon DVR function). I live 45 miles from the broadcast towers, and receive about 44 channels with a pre-amp installed. This is installed in a one-story home attic (placed near the top of the roof about 25' high) with radiant barrier and many large trees surrounding us. I get all of the UHF channels, but unfortunately, none of the VHF channels (ABC/CBS/PBS). Fortunately, I follow an NFC team and they are broadcast on FOX, but for the local team, I can't view them because they are on CBS.

I've considering getting an outdoor antenna, but to be honest, I can't remember the last time I've sat down at a designated time to watch a show "live" (aside from NFL, of course), so "missing" these shows isn't really an issue, since I can see them online the next day anyway. Also, of the 48 available channels, there are really only five or six that are worth watching (unfortunately, I miss four of those because this won't pick up VHF).

So it says GE, but GE licensed their name to Jasco. The antenna is made by Jasco. The product arrived unassembled. The antenna arrived without a required screw. After being bounced around to the right customer service department, the answer was to ship the whole thing back and hope the next box has all the screws. I was not very happy with this answer. I asked for a manager and four hours later, I was given a better solution. Hopefully your package will have all the parts.

The antenna works better than the indoor antenna it is replacing. We are 30 miles from the antenna towers. There is one VHF station in town and four UHF stations. Most of the stations broadcast several channels on their frequency. The amplified indoor antenna could not pick up the VHF channel (7) or the lower UHF channel (14). The GE Attic mount antenna #33692 easily picks up these channels clearly. Assembly was not difficult and took about 15-20 minutes once I had all the parts. Mounting the antenna was easy, but you have to run coax or use your existing coax.

It does not say so anywhere in its description on the Amazon site, but buyers beware - THIS PRODUCT COMES COMPLETELY UN-ASSEMBLED AND MUST BE ASSEMBLED BY THE PURCHASER . . . AND IT IS NOT EASY!! The directions are not completely clear and are written in such small letters that you need a magnifying glass to read them. Plus the parts (screws, nuts etc) are so small and hard to work with - and most people probably to not have the tools necessary for such small parts. IT IS EXTREMELY DECEPTIVE OF THE SELLER TO NOT MENTION THIS. I live in a big city (Chicago) and so far it does a nice job of picking up the local channels. That the reception seems to work well is the reason I gave it 3 stars. However, it is a real B@%*$ to put together, and this product is not exactly inexpensive - for a bunch of plastic and aluminum parts that are not even assembled.

I have to say it really only gave me a 5 to 10 bump on my channel levels which wasn't much in my mind compared to my previous cheapy antenna.

What it did give me was a wider reception range. I didn't have to adjust as much to get other slightly angled signal. I read in another review a 30 degree arc was what he experienced. I'll second that. The design gives consistent results over a 20 to 30 degree stretch. Worked perfectly and keeps all my major stations between 70 to 85 at about 35 to 40 miles out in my attic.

Live 20 miles from Philadelphia and wanted to try to pick up ABC. Unfortunately, this antenna was unable to bring it in clearly after several hours of adjustment. I have a 5 dollar flat antenna that performs equally to this antenna that is over 6 times the price. But it would also help if the abc station in Philly would put out a stronger signal.

Easy to assemble and install. Most difficult part was getting the position to pick up the most channels and running the coaxial cable from the attic. Unfortunately, since I live in a medium size urban area, I got the same results with this antenna as I did with the smaller, flat indoor antenna I had previously. I can't get all channels in any single position, so I had to sacrifice a couple channels. At least w/ the indoor antenna I could adjust quickly the antenna.

I'm 38 miles from my main vid towers. My antenna is on the third story balcony (top story) on the other side of the building from the towers. I put it on a tripod just above the edge of the roofline. With my old 15 dollar antenna, I get 2, 4, 5, 11, and 13 local channels. Only missing 7 and 9. 98 channels including uhf. This one gave me 43 channels but only 5 and 11 of my vid. Very disappointed.

It still iffy half the time .... and I live in Metro Phoenix. Very irritating.

Purchased to pull in local channels. Didn't get one channel (the one it really needed to). A few other buyers experienced the same problem. Have to return it. Upon the advice of another reviewer, I purchased a Yagi ($5 more) with EXcellent results

Does not do any better than cheaper flat multi-directional antennas.

I have three different TV sets and this antenna did not work with any of them, even after I hooked the antenna up directly to each TV in turn; could not get a signal on any set. Located approx. 30-miles from downtown New Orleans antenna farms; unit would not work with signal booster on long coaxial cable runs, nor short, direct runs to sets without amplifier.

Others are making great claims, so I tried this product. I live in central IN, 12 miles from most of the broadcast towers, 40 miles from the farthest station. Got in 3 stations. Put amplifier on and got in 10 stations. Did all of the steps prescribed. No improvement.

Hooked up another antenna and got in 36 stations. Returned this one.

Bought this because of all the positive reviews, but it failed to get signal from a VHF tower 30.4 miles from my house. Got a Yagi and it does great.

I have no idea how these people are getting great reception from such long distances. The channels I want to watch are 22, 23, 25, 25, and 27 miles away with no hills/mountains between my home and the broadcasters. 1 of them is southeast, the other 4 are east. I can't position the antenna in any way to receive all 5, so I pointed it where I get the best reception of the remaining 4. I get pretty good signal 90% of the time, but frequently during prime time the reception gets bad enough to make shows unwatchable. Unfortunately most of the time isn't good enough.

works good for 1 tv but I put in a splitter and now both tv brake up and sound goes in and out. had a better antenna at our other house about 2 miles away before we moved and it was great. get what you pay for, spend a little more and you wont be sorry.

The range is much more limited than described. I picked up one fuzzy channel. I'm less than 50 miles from a large city with several stations. Missed the window to return it.