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The wires are too short. For the price I expected more. It can not be moved far from the Receiver. The AM antenna is not powered, non-amplified. The FM antenna works great. It has no on off switch. It has to be adjusted for every station.
I live in the bottom of a ravine just outside of San Francisco. Finally I called customer support and they emailed me a small pdf. I have to tune the antenna as I change stations.The operation of the antenna is not at all intuitive and the manufacturer provide no installation or usage documentation.
With this power antenna I am able to listen to new and talk radio on the left end of the dial (that is where my stations are) with acceptable clarity. No joy. The steep hills prevent good FM reception through a standard dipole or normal roof-mounted FM antenna.
I looked on the Audiovox badly design website and did search for all sorts of phrases like "Q", "Q antenna" "AM/FM". Music reception is still somewhat noisy so I have to put the receiver on mono.The alleged precision tuning of the antenna does not live up to its claim. However, the gain control does seem to be the key to reception.
You can look up by model number but I could find no indication on the box what the model # was. For the price of the antenna they should provide documentation.
In my opinion it's not good at all less than 1 star. Spent a lot of time trying to get it zeroed in but it just don't work. Barely better than nothing at best. John
I live in a suburban area where reception from the nearest major cities (about 20-30 miles away) is largely blocked by a range of hills. Although I did not try a simple loop-type antenna, when I connected this Terk antenna, I was able to get 4-bars (signal strength indicator on the tuner) out of five in broad-band mode and 5 bars in "Pin-Dot" (narrow-band) mode, on a relatively weak FM station I was interested in. I did not need to set the antenna gain on maximum in either case to get these results. I am satisfied that the antenna works well for me for FM in my situation.I haven't used the AM antenna.
I've used this compact antenna for years in a small apartment in NYC where signals bounce between the buildings and often cause an echo effect. Also, I've never tried to listen to an FM station farther away than Newark, NJ, so I'm not sure whether this antenna is really an improvement over the older TERK model it replaced, but there's no comparison between it and the T-shaped wire that came with the tuner. It has worked very well. I do not use this for AM reception; I unplug it when listening to AM radio and use a passive TERK AM Advantage antenna, which I cannot recommend too strongly. The sound is clear and static free, even during storms. I will admit that it is a bit of a chore to adjust the pin-dots every time a radio station on a different part of the dial is selected, though.
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