Terk Low-Profile Indoor Antenna (TV5)

by Terk

Product Details

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• Product Dimensions: 11.5 x 25 x 4.8 inches ; 1.2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000069106
• Item model number: TV5
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (151 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  • #72 in Electronics > Accessories & Supplies > Audio & Video Accessories > Antennas > TV Antennas
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 4, 2002

Product Description

Audiovox TERK TV5 Low-Profile Indoor Amplified Television Antenna TV5 Television Accessories

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

41 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars FINALLY, a product that does what it advertises, April 1, 2005

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J. A Cunningham (in cognito) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Terk Low-Profile Indoor Antenna (TV5) (Electronics)

for geographic reference I live 25 miles NW of DC.
The only CON was that the square antenna band takes a bit more lateral "real estate", but for the good reception I'm getting, its worth it
SUMMARY:
Someone gave me an old style antennae with a booster attachment and it worked OK, but I had to adjust it for certain channels, then during a surgical recovery I used cable for a couple of months then when I had the cable turned off, I couldn't get the old boosted antennae to restore the usual network (ABC, CBS, NBC, PAX, PBS, UPN AND WB{local}) reception.
So I did some research on booster antennaes and found this item advertised at a local big screen TV retailer. As they were highly recognized for being hi-quality and hi-tech, I did some more research on the TERK TV5 and while there were very few, (apparently this a reasonably new product), all the reviews I found were positive, so I ordered one oneline (saved $10 over the local retailer).
I installed the antennae in a matter of minutes (very simple design) and plugged it in.
Turned the TV on and VOILA! instant reception in the above channels and a few others too.
I am VERY pleased and satisfied, requires little or no adjustment (for my area) between channels.

25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Performer at a Reasonable Price, November 26, 2005

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Chester Ragsdale "Enjoyer of Life" (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Terk Low-Profile Indoor Antenna (TV5) (Electronics)

Once you get over the looks of this antenna, it performs like a champ. I read several magazine reviews and checked out Circuit City's site and this antenna is mentioned at the top of everyone's chart.
I have DirecTV and it works great in combo with that, pulls in all my local digital and national HDTV channels.
I too am over 30 miles from the stations, but have no bad channels, the only time reception is weak or it does not pull in clearly is a local issue not the antenna's fault.
I liked this antenna, because it is not so massive, works indoors great, and it fit between the top of the big screen and the shelf above it with room to still adjust it.
I like it.

61 of 70 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I could not believe it worked so well, February 21, 2005

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sxa (Sacramento,CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Terk Low-Profile Indoor Antenna (TV5) (Electronics)

I recently got rid of my cable company since they only provided 4 local high definition channels and that too was very unreliable. One of the other channels would be out weeks at a time. They did not have the ability to connect an over the air (OTA) antenna either to the receiver box.

I had the Dish Network installed, and I am using the 921 box which is a High Def Tuner with DVR. It has a coax connection for the OTA antenna. Once you plug in an external antenna, you go to the menu on the receiver and choose Local Channels and then choose Scan Digital Channels option and the receiver sets off to find all the UHF Digital channels you can receive. Then it presents you a menu of all the digital channels, you can see which ones are High Def since it will have the channel name with DT or HD next to it. I realize this is not relavent to the antenna I am commenting on, but I wish someone had told me how all this works since I spent some time on figuring this out, so I am putting this in for completeness.

Anyhow I went to Radio Shack and got the TERK HDTVi antenna which looks funky, it picked up just PBS and Fox, nothing else would come in, also it was very directional.

Next I got the TERK TV-53 which is what you install over your Dish, that did not work either. Then reading the reviews here and on the Circuit City website, I purchased the Terk TV-5 from Circuit City and right away by just placing the antenna on the floor near the TV it picked up all the High Def Channels in my area (UPN, WB, ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS and Fox).

Though the receiver recognized these channels, I was unable to get ABC and CBS since the signal was weak, I live over 30 miles from these stations. So I took my antenna and put it in my balcony (Yes i realize this is an indoor antenna), and plugged it into my balcony's power outlet, I connected the output of the antenna into the diplexer output that I had my Dish installer put in, this is so that you can connect an external OTA antenna into the same line that the Satellite signal is going in. Then on the receiver side I had a splitter and one went into the Sat connection and the other went into the OTA Antenna connection.

The result was amazing, the signals all came in very clear with signal strength in the 90s.

Only thing left to do is to ensure that I won't have any issues with having an indoor antenna in the balcony, perhaps I need to make sure water does not fall on it and short circuit the whole thing.