Customer Reviews

Terk Technology AF9330 AM/FM Antenna Tower

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(15)

 

 

I was fooled. I thought, "Oh, a vertically polarized, amplified antenna ought to work pretty well, at least a little better than the antenna built into the power cord of my tabletop radio." Well, folks, it doesn't. In a few minutes, you can make a very simple passive dipole antenna (i.e., a hunk of wire, basically) with a piece of 300-ohm flat twin-lead wire (you know, the stuff that's flat with two wires about a 1/4" apart in molded plastic...goes for about a dime a foot) that works better for FM. I know because I did a side-by-side comparison between the Terk and my homebrew dipole...the dipole pulled in the station I wanted in stereo while the Terk antenna could only get me a noisy mono signal at any gain setting. As a radio hobbyist (licensed ham radio operator), I am ashamed to admit that I fell for this one, so please don't tell anyone.

Terrible. Tried several positions (flat and upright), nothing seemed to improve reception. May as well not have been plugged in at all. Let's say the 1 star is for the lighted green dial on the front, since I can't give it zero stars...

doesn't work for me - i live an hour north of boston and an hour south of portland - not the best area for reception but the little wire antenna that came with my stereo works a lot better than this

I bought this antenna for get better receive.But the one meter wire works better than this.Does not make any differance if you connect to power or not.I dont recomend to any one.

I bought this antenna today, because I was trying to improve the FM reception for certain of my favorite stations, without resorting to listening to them online, or spending lots of money getting HD radio. Well, this isn't even worth the plastic it's made of. I've never written a review on Amazon, but I don't want anyone to waste their money buying this. After fiddling with the antenna for a few hours, I decided to cannibalize another FM antenna wire (the cheap ones that come with a receiver), joining them together to make the one I'm using twice as long. Cost? $0.10 if I'm being generous. Result? Perfect. No static, no problems. Why buy this worthless thing? This antenna is going back to the store.

This antenna is a good buy for the money. I have a sharp xlmp131 which had horrible reception for am and fm stations. I bought this product from a local store in town and tried it out. It improved my
reception of weak signals and cleared static from my strong ones. It also amplified the am so that i could recieve stations I never used to get!

Pros: Elegant design and superior technology
Cons: Wish the cable was longer than about 3ft. But other than that nothing else.

This antenna is JUNK! I am extremely disappointed. Terk should be charged with FALSE ADVERTISING! The product doesn't work. My T-shaped wire antenna that comes with the receiver is fair to poor at best. The stations that come in clear with the T antenna have static with the Terk. Stations that are fuzzy with the T antenna don't even come in with the Terk. All the reviews I have read are not good for the Terk products, but I thought I would give the Terk Tower a try. BIG MISTAKE! I bought this antenna at Best Buy. I hope they will take it back without a re-stocking fee. This products rates negative five stars!

This FM antenna is a complete failure. I live 18 miles from Philadelphia antenna farms. Nothing but static and weak signals everywhere in the house with this thing on quality receivers. I get better reception with the wired antenna packaged with my receivers. Still searching for a company that can produce a decent FM antenna after two tries. Terk clearly cannot do this!

I had this thing connected to my radio for quite a while, then one day my reception improved noticeably. I looked behind and the terk tower cable had fallen loose from the radio. So my radio worked better with NO antenna than with the Terk Tower.

I can only imagine that my issues are multi-path type problems and not signal strength. Whatever, this gadget didn't work for me. And it had that green light too!

I replaced the "piece of wire" antenna that came with my radio with this thing. The terk was WORSE, no matter how I aimed it or turned it.

Calling this thing worthless is too generous. It had NEGATIVE worth in that it made my reception worse.