Digital Advantage 45

When my 20-year-old RCA antenna finally gave out, I needed a replacement and ended up on this site. Since modern antenna designs have changed quite a bit over the years, I called customer service for some guidance.

The representative I spoke with was friendly and helpful. Based on my location—about 20 miles from the antennas on top of the Sandia Mountains—she recommended their most affordable unit, which was a pleasant surprise.

The antenna arrived well-packaged and was fairly easy to assemble. However, the manual left much to be desired. It went into great detail about things I didn’t need, while completely skipping over the essentials—like what exactly to connect to the labeled “connect” points. Luckily, I managed to figure it out on my own.

Despite the poor manual, this antenna is excellent. It's about half the size of my old RCA model but seems to pull in nearly twice as many free channels—close to 100!

One major issue I ran into (with both this and my previous antenna) was not knowing which direction to point it. After watching a YouTube video, I realized I’d been aiming my antenna the wrong way for the past 30 years! That likely explains some of my past reception problems.

All in all, I consider this a first-class antenna and would definitely recommend it.

The lil advantage 45 was a perfect fit for my home, my house is roughly 5 miles from the TV towers as a bird flys, but i have a large tree that obstructs the signal path so the A45 seemed like a good choice. Setup was stupid easy and there is a YouTube video if you need it, literally takes 5 min out of the box. This was an attic install that was used with channel masters attic kit, it took me longer to run the coaxial than to get this installed in my attic, maybe took me 20 minutes and that was taking my time. I guesstimated the angle and height of the antenna and crossed my fingers. I used the usb amplifier that the previous homeowners left in my living room, maybe a $10 item. I had an excessive cable run length and was worried about what i would get for channels. I fired up the TV and hit the auto channel tune, I got every available channel crystal clear with no delays, no interference lines, nothing. I had a temp setup with one of those cheap indoor paddle antennas and it maybe got 25% of the channels on a good day. The reception is perfect, fast and free ! Dont buy cheap Amazon crap.

Had to write a review. I have the largest antenna pointed to Tampa (60 miles away) and wasn't getting my more local stations in another direction without digitizing, so I picked up this and combined the signal with the two antennas without an issue. Fast forward a couple years, a small storm called Hurricane Ian came our way to SW florida so I took down my huge antenna and left this on my Rohm tower figuring this should survive some 60+ mph winds projected. We unfortunately took a direct impact and despite winds well over 120 MPH, the antenna survived along with their preamp. Once I got generator power going and plugged back in the preamp, we had TV once again. Highly recommend.

Installed antenna yesterday so far working well.

I tried others, they just do not compare in quality or functionality to Channel Master. I have a Channel Master preamp and antenna, they are simply the best!