TERK TV55 Indoor/Outdoor Amplified TV Antenna

A friend ask me to order one for him after he saw how well it worked on the boat. He had used allot of other's with poor results.

The Terk TV55 is a helical antenna. Inside the plastic housing is a wire that is wrapped in a corkscrew pattern around an inert core. The product literature claimed "big antenna performance is a little package". I found this to be untrue. While the...

The only way I could recomend someone to use this antenna would be around saltwater due to its water tight construction and windloading due to its aerodynamic shape . In other words motorhomes and boats and expect to aim it when you use it .

I purchased the TV55 to try to pull in a few more local HD channels than i was getting with my Terk TV4. But after finding the optimal place the the TV55, and setting up the amp correctly i proceded to get less channels than with my TV4, and worse...