Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I wanted to not so much "cut the cord" but trim the cord. I was paying about $125.00 a month for TV programs that I figured about 80% of which I could get for free over the air with an antenna. With my dish I also had Showtime and HBO but I was planning to keep those by subscribing through my Roku for $14.99 for HBO NOW and Showtime through HULU for $8.99 a month plus I get Sling TV which provides AMC, TNT, TBS, CNN and quite a few others for $20.00 a month. So..like I said, not a cutter, a trimmer. However, I really got my hopes up when I read how some others had installed their Yagi by simply hooking up to the existing satellite rg6 wiring. I thought I'd do the same and be done in a breeze. All I got were about 4 channels and I was pretty disheartened. Back up and down the ladder a few times, switching out wires, double checking, going online for answers, to no avail. I went on Amazon answers and asked what I might be doing wrong and sure enough, someone (I believe his name was subdiver) came to my rescue and told me to find a filter or two called a diplexer and remove it and join the cables. I found the filter. bought a couple of connectors and did a quick hook up and brought in 33 channels. The reception is actually better than what I had with my satellite dish. I also bought a Tivo Roamio OTA which is a great device for serious TV viewers and works perfect with this Yagi antenna. So now I'm finally where I want to be. I pay for what I want to watch and little else. No more blackmailing me for cost increases for channels that I get over the air for free. The last thing I have left to do is pick up a 5' mast at Home Depot to raise the antenna just a few feet higher since I do get a bit of wavering during high winds on a couple of channels and I think a few feet up might help that...if not, I can live with it. Update Jan. 1, 2016...I added a 5' mast to the antenna that I bought from from Home Depot for about $11.00 and fit it into the already installed J-pole so that put me about 20' above ground. My most watched networks NBC, CBS, and ABC are all about 30 miles away give or take a few miles. On most days the reception is better than I've ever had with cable or satellite. That includes rain, clouds and light snow.However, a strong breeze can wreak havoc. If I get a wind of 10 to 15 mph, I get a slight break-up of the picture. If I get 15 to 25 I get a much stronger break-up....more than that is impossible to watch. I contacted RCA and they suggested that I need guy wires installed but I figure about 80% of what I watch is also carried on Hulu which I subscribe to and I don't get the wind all the time, and quite frankly I'm getting tired of going up and down the ladder to install the antenna, to reset the antenna, to add the mast to the antenna. I wanted to get rid of Dish TV not make a new career.....besides, I'm nearly seventy I'm too old for this crap. The bottom' line is I love the picture, the reception is perfect...except for the wind. Update jan.19, 2016 Well, winter has set in pretty solid in this Buffalo New York area and my antenna has become almost useless. Any day that I get a breeze over 15 miles an hour or any cold or snow at all I lose most of the most watched channels. NBC and CBS disappear almost completely and they are 33 and 30 miles away respectively. I contacted RCA for any suggestions and they advised that I try guy wires but just bought one of those indoor window antennas for my bedroom tv and was quite surprised at the reception it got but again, any breeze, snow or bad weather and I lose the major stations. Good weather days are great, the reception is perfect but once the temps fall and the wind blows I switch to internet TV. I find I watch most of the network shows on Hulu now and more movies on Netflix and Amazon, better quality TV anyway. BTW if you haven't caught the series Rectify and Red Road, you're really missing out, way better than most network shows. Feb. 18, 2016 update; I lost reception about 8 days ago last week from CBS and NBC completely due to cold weather(sub-zero temps -12 and -15 with chill factors in the -20 to -30 temps) only had partial reception on the other major networks ABC, and FOX which are only about 15 miles away. CBS started coming in sporadically after a few days but was mostly unwatchable. Started going into spasms from lack of local newscasts around the third day....climbed a ladder to the roof during a raging snow flurry on the fourth day and wrapped tinfoil on the antenna splines in the hope of receiving much needed signal from local news reporters......no avail.....fell off ladder....broke ankle.....crawled into house and turned on TV to see how long flurry would last ...to see if ambulance could make it through storm...at least two inches in front of my door....still no reception..... fearing blackout now from pain in ankle.....took off boot to relieve pressure....not broken after all just got a small branch caught on my boot....what a relief. Still have problem with reception though.....can't shop for food ....since can't see what's on sale at supermarket...I've made a decision that once the weather improves....I'm going to search Amazon for a bigger antenna so that this awful dilemma never befalls me ever again.....starving for food.....in need of information from the outside world.....nobody should have to live this way cut off from the world simply because they made the wrong purchas.... wait...gotta go ....wife's home with the groceries..