Strong and sturdy. Was also surprisingly good as a 3 wavelength antenna for medium range uhf channels.

At my location, there is an important high-vhf tv station, the signal from which is blocked by a tall hill, trees and buildings. TVFool.com indicates the signal path is 16 NM (DB) with a 2edge path, and the transmitter is 24 miles away. This antenna pulled in the channel at a solid 100% for signal strength and quality. I combined this antenna with my powerful UHF DB8e antenna via an RCA preamplifier/combiner. Prior to this antenna, I had used an antennasdirect VHF retrofit dipole that could not lock onto this TV station. This is a surprisingly sturdy and yet lightweight, powerful antenna, and it totally exceeded my expectations. Please note that this antenna is highly directional and is fixed for that one VHF station, unlike the DB8e, which with its elements oriented 30 degrees to broadside covers an approximate 110 degree area of the sky. My whole objective was to get the most channels with fixed antennas and avoid the use of a rotor. I have completely succeeded thanks to these fine antennas. Prior to this implementation, I was paying $138 per month to my cable company for Cable TV and related equipment rental. Now I get 64 OTA channels, and I use a Channelmaster DVR+ that is a better DVR with over ten times the capacity than the one I was renting from the cable company. Finance is a death of 1,000 cuts, and saving $1,500 a year by going to OTA channels proves it.

Attached is a picture of the installation. Please note that this is an exterior installation. Living in New England, an attic installation does not work well when one gets a foot or more of snow on ones roof. The antenna mast is 18' high, and it is grounded. Also, an appropriate antenna discharge unit was used -- all this according to NEC 810.21 standards.

Easy to set up. Decent quality. One element came with a crease in it from shipping. No biggie though. Instructions are basically a picture though. Took a bit of head tilting and looking at the parts to figure it out.

That said, I did not gain ANY VHF channels. I knew going in I was on the fringe of the broadcast area and took a chance. Unless you know you can get solid signals, I'd say don't waste your money. Most channels are on UHF anyway.

I have a good uhf/vhf antenna in the attic but was having no luck getting WJW-DT channel 8 , about 30 miles away. I got this antenna, connected it to an RCA uhf/vhf preamp, and aimed it at the tower using TV FOOL and a compass app. Partial Success! The channel would come in with dropouts during daylight hours but every day would disappear at dusk. Finally I realized that artificial Christmas trees in the attic, all with wire frames and all sitting between the small end of the antenna and the station, couldn't be helping matters any. After moving them away I found I could get the channel better but only during the day . I figured it was a bad case of "multipath interference" or something else I had no knowledge of,and the station was never going to come in after dark.
Then one day, months later on a whim, I unplugged a wireless security camera that was in line of sight of the station on an outside wall,and suddenly the station came in crystal clear after dark. The infrared LEDS in the camera were the main culprits, not the camera's wifi. The Zmodo camera has a setting in the app to turn off the night vision so I can do that to watch WJW until I have a chance to relocate the camera. The 3 other Zmodo cameras all run night vision but they aren't directly in the path and don't interfere .

I have this inside a 2nd-story attic in Glendale AZ pointed at the towers on South Mountain south of Phoenix. I get fantastic reception on the VHF band. This was replacing a supposedly dual-band RCA thing which looked similar but never performed well and died completely after 2 years. Now I have a 4-bow-tie UHF type and this one combined and amplified going into my Tivo Premier (which have notoriously weak tuners) and everything comes in perfectly across both bands from 20+ miles away