air 360
I bought this because a tree branch took off our Winegard WiFi Ranger antenna. Winegard no longer sells the wifi ranger so I got the Air 360+ to replace it. The Air 360 does not include the WiFi extender that was included in the WiFi Ranger, but we never used that so not a problem. The Air 360 does have a TV plus FM plus AM antenna. Our RV TV has FM but not AM so I can't review the AM antenna. However, looking at the Air 360 antennas, the AM component has a fairly large coil antenna, so I'm guessing it's pretty effective. The TV antenna is necessarily physically small in order to fit into the dome, and it has a circular geometry required for it to be omni-directional. Being so small and also being omni-directional means the gain of the antenna is limited by physics so don't expect too much. In my little town, we have only 3 repeaters up on the mountain, giving us 10 digital stations. Using the Air360 we can get 7 of them. If I connect a yagi pointed toward the mountain I can get all of them. (The WineGard wall plate combines the roof antenna with any external antenna, so it's easy to add a Yagi if you want). If you're in an urban location with lots of broadcast stations nearby, you'll probably get most of them fine. The Air 360 comes with a wall plate that connects the TV antenna. It also injects 12V onto the coax, which is used up on the antenna where they have an RF amplifier. This is activated by a pushbutton on the wall plate. If I don't push the button, I don't get any TV stations and, as I said, 7 stations if I push the button. The FM antenna is not amplified, but seems to work fine. The included wall plate is the same as the one already installed on my RV so I didn't bother to replace it. Antenna installation is straightforward. The manual is clear and apparently was written by someone whose first language is English. Since I was replacing a previous antenna, I had to remove the parts of it that weren't scraped off by the tree branch. This was the hardest part of installation (getting rid of the old lap seal and butyl tape was no fun). My old installation had two coax cables emerging on the roof with female connectors. The two Air360 connectors are female. So I had to purchase a couple of short Male to Male RG6 cables at the hardware store to make the connection. My old installation also included a 12V cable on the roof to power the WiFi electronics. Since I no longer need this, I cut the cable and glomped on some butyl to isolate the end. Bottom line: it seems like a pretty high quality product. Some reviews complain that it's not pulling in stations, but as I said, if you need to get distant stations you'll need to pop up a yagi and point it. This antenna is not great at pulling in distant stations, but it's probably the best you're going to do.
