Winegard LNA-200 Boost XT Digital HDTV Preamplifier

Have been using Winegard stuff since the early 70's. (I was a TV repair man in a former life) Seems to have good gain and Not subject to signal overload. You may need to purchase a 300 ohm / Flat wire to 75 ohm round Impedance matching transformer. (about $5) Try to mount the Pre-amp (black box) as close to the antenna elements as possible within 1 - 2 feet. The "white box" is the power supply for the pre-amp. The DC power and TV signal share the same wire. So there can be NO splitters, combiners or other amps between the power supply and the pre-amp. (black box) All splitting and such is done After the Power supply. (white box) The power supply is NOT rated for outdoor use. So protect it from the Rain and such. Winegard is to TV antennas is as FORD is to Pickup trucks.

This product worked great for me. I am deep in the country and are closest neighbor is a ground hog over the next hill. You get the picture I am using a Winegard antenna it was rated for 30 miles. The closest TV tower is about 70 miles away. I was able to pick it up but at only certain times during the day. I added the Winegard boost and the amplifier that comes with it. The TV single picked up by 20%. So now I can enjoy TV all day. Please remember that this worked out for me in my terrain condition. So study your terrain and conditions to see if it well work for you. For me it was will worth the money.

Pros..Went from 7 channels to 28. (without turning the antenna) Con..Had to take the antenna down to install amplifier. Well worth the trouble

I used this amplifier with a 70 mile range antenna that was receiving a channel 60 miles away but with a poor or low signal (we couldn't watch it). As soon as I put the amplifier, I got the channel perfectly!

Reception is a lot more stable and it delivers the same reception to more than one tv set.

Amplifier worked as stated. Went from 7 weak channels to 21 strong ones.

I use this UHF/VHF amp for UHF only, it cleared up most all stations that were normally breaking up and freezing on a regular basis. I live in a very bad signal area!

Live a bottom of hill about 40 miles from the quad cities where the tv stations are located. Could not get WHBF TV4 at all. After I installed the Winegard 200, I get it most of the time...not always but about 90%. Works better then the existing signal amp I had.

Most stations didn't change, but the ones that did improved a lot, according to the signal strength meter on the TV. Definitely not what I was hoping for, but I kept it figuring it was the most improvement of all the combinations of antennas and amplifiers I tried.

I'm sure this is a great product for others. But in my case I saw no difference. Without it, my tv picked up a few channels that were too weak to watch enjoyably. I bought this hoping to amplify the weak signals enough to watch and saw no difference whatsoever. Perhaps my signals are simply too weak, but this didn't improve the quality at all.