Mohu Curve 50 TV Antenna Indoor Amplified 50 Mile Range Modern Design 4K-Ready HDTV Premium Materials for Performance

I'll begin with stuff you need to know for this review to be most helpful: I am using this antenna in a first floor apartment in the inner city (Chicago). It's being used for a bedroom TV. I do not have any form of cable television, and have an inexpensive, black friday special, Hisense brand HDTV. I should add that I am not using the amplifier that was included in the box, will save it to use if I happen to move somewhere it's needed one day.It was ridiculously easy to set up (as an antenna should be); took me all of 5 minutes excluding channel scan time, and only that long because I spent time carefully reading the instructions for just in case. It's no eye-sore; it's attractive, and I love that it's black on one side and white on the other. It's also very lightweight plastic, so while it looked nice, it didn't have quite the feel that matches its rather high end price tag. But hey it's an indoor antenna, so I guess it should be lightweight. Most importantly the Mohu Curve functions beautifully, picking up all of the major networks, PBS channels, and several more. It certainly outperforms the Phillips HD antenna I have in the living room. I performed a channel scan 3 times (all w/o using amplifier), testing it in 3 locations in the room: right next to the TV (not near the window) yielding over 50 channels, on the bottom window ledge yielding over 60 channels, and lastly higher up in the window--basically in the middle of the window sitting on the top of the lower half of the window and yielding 65+ channels.ALL of the scans worked very well, progressively improving with each location change. First scan (right next to the TV) solidly captured more than everything I wanted and yielded 50+ channels; I was thrilled! I changed the location and decided to re-scan only out of curiosity and also because CBS (Channel 2 in Chicago) yielded no signal as Channel 2-1, but oddly enough it came through perfectly as Channel 2-11. I could have left well enough alone, but because I'm a little OCD, I wanted it as Channel 2-1 and in fact maybe it would have if I'd chosen to use the amplifier. When I moved it near the window (both window locations), it came in perfectly as 2-1 like I wanted, and as 2-11 as well. In addition to giving me my CBS 2-1 channel, moving near the window also yielded some additional channels (mostly more non-English language channels, i.e. - more Spanish, Korean, Polish, French, etc., and also a few religious channels).To sum it up, this thing works great! I was near to giving it 5 stars, and the only reason I didn't was the pricing. I think it's on the expensive side, and pricing it closer to fifty bucks would have been more appropriate. I suspect that the slightly less expensive Mohu leaf would've worked just as well as the Curve, but my vanity got the better of me and I went for the looks. :)Update: After using this antenna a bit more, I continue to be impressed with it. I had to bump my rating up from 4 stars to 5; although I do still think it's expensive.

I bought 3 antennas from Amazon and they are all reviewed here. For two of these antennas, the problem was that both ABC and CBS [channels 7 (WJLA) and 9 (WUSA)] in my area, and I suspect many other areas as well, have moved back to High-band VHF was received intermittently if at all. In all cases, I was 30 miles from the TV stations and set the antenna on top of an 8 foot high Tall Boy facing the direction indicated by TVfool.com. Luckily, that direction faced towards an outside wall of my home.The first antenna was the Mohu Curve 50 Designer HDTV Antenna. This small antenna actually worked well for all UHF stations and in general I would pick up about 40 stations including the two VHF channels as well. However, I had problems with VHF channels 7 and 9. I then purchased the Winegard LNA-200 Boost XT Digital HDTV Preamplifier from Amazon and installed it to see if it helped pick up VHF channels 7 and 9. I then picked up about 43 channels including the two VHF channels. This was due to the LNA or Low Noise Amplifier which set the Noise Figure (NF) for my new Sony TV at about 2 dB. The problem was that VHF channels for ABC and CBS (Channels 7 and 9 in the Washington, D.C. area) would still fade in and out and never be reliable enough to record using Viewtv or Simple.tv (both of which I purchased at Amazon). The remaining channels were very reliable since they were all UHF channels. I find it amazing this antenna actually worked so well for its rather small size.The next antenna was the Antennas Direct C2-V-CJM ClearStream 2-V Long Range UHF/VHF Indoor/Outdoor DTV Antenna with 20-Inch Mount also purchased from Amazon. The was a larger antenna that actually used a VHF Dipole as well as a UHF antenna to supposedly pick up the UHF channels as well as the VHF channels via the dipole augmentation. Of course there was only one dipole with the length matched to the high-VHF band. I was hoping this “rabbit ear” augmentation would be enough. But, no such luck. Not only did I have the same problem as the Mohu, but now via fading in and out, I was losing some UHF channels as well.Luckily, Amazon accepted this antenna as a return for my current antenna, the “Winegard Free Vision FV-30BB HDTV Antenna”. This is an older design antenna which has at least three dipoles for VHF channels giving it a larger effective aperture. I am now pulling in channels not only from Washington, D.C. reliably (including 7 and 9), but also some from Baltimore, MD. I actually received 54 channels, many of which I simply disabled since they were either Baltimore repeats of D.C. Channels or others I was not interested in. I am completely amazed. This just goes to show that newer designs are not necessarily better designs.This antenna (along with the single tuner version of Simple.TV and Viewtv) has allowed me to completely cut the cord. My additional purchases of two Roku 3’s allow me to put Simple.TV live or recorded video on any HDTV and this version (only this version) of Simple.TV has a no cost free guide that allows me to select just “New” recordings if I want. I can also watch TV on any popular phone or pad device via the internet at any location with free Wi-Fi. I will review these other devices separately later. Suffice it to say, I am now finally extremely happy – no more Direct-TV or Comcast Cable or ….!