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11 January 2016
Buyer Beware
If you are looking for something cheap that works reasonably well then this is for you.
The drawbacks:
1) The majority of it is thin plastic that degrades in the sun. If you get any kind of heavy weather then you may find it hanging off your mast because the mount couldn't take the stress.
2) Sure, it has a rotor, but it randomly activates without any input. One day it is pointing in the correct direction, the next day it is pointing 180 degrees in the opposite direction. After messing up my DVR queue I climbed up on the roof and disassembled it and cut the wire to the rotor. After that, no problem.
3) Don't believe the claims for its range. It tends to be pretty directional, so if your favorite stations transmitters are more than 20-25 degrees apart then you will have a problem. I gave up after my second unit and spent $100 for an omni-directional digital antennae that does not need a rotor.
Be fore warned!
16 March 2017
A newly discovered drawback
1 of 1 found this helpful I am now on my third set of this device and, until now, have been pretty satisfied with it. The lifetime of this unit seems to be only three years before the headset breaks or the transmitter fails, but at the price that is a small matter.
Recently I have replaced my 10 year old Panasonic plasma screen TV with a brand new Proscan 50" LED set, and this is where my problem has been revealed. For some reason, no matter which output I connect my headset to I get a low level hiss in my ears. I have tried everything to diagnose the issue, such as connecting my headset to a different device, and the problem seems to be that the headset just doesn't "like" my new TV!
Fortunately, I am able to connect the headset directly to my TiVo device for quality output sound. But that has its drawbacks since the DVD and audio amplifier do NOT run through the TiVo. If I want to use the RS120 for these devices I have to do a plug swap via a switching device, a minor irritation.
I'd be interested to hear if anyone else has had this same issue pop up.
Otherwise, the RS120 is the best such device for the price.