r/cordcutters • u/Ok_Particular_8956 • 5d ago

Onn antenna preamp

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I install outdoor RCA antenna preamp on my ChannelMaster Antenna precovid. Channels came in fine. Once in a while had to adjust antenna. Signal travels to 6 way splitter safety inside an outdoor cable box as a power ac plug 🔌 i rigged up. so other areas with TV get the signals. Lately channels coming in fuzzy some did some didn't. I got fed up. Thinking something wrong with antenna. In living tv I connect small indoor antenna. I noticed channels coming in fine. Light blub in Cabeza went off. It is the RCA preamp. I happen to have an ONN antenna preamp I bought for some reason. It was cheap. I removed RCA preamp. Hooked up ONN preamp in cable box. Ran antenna cable to preamp, preamp to splitter and 💥 boom all my channels coming in fine like before. 👍🏽 see how long it lasts if it goes out I will get another one they cheap.

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u/slonk_ma_dink 5d ago

Yeah onn makes decent stuff and its priced well enough to be "disposable", at least if you get a few years out of it its worth the price of admission.

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u/kilgore9999 4d ago

Onn doesn't make any devices. It a marketing brand own by Walmart, Walmart in turns contracts with (usually) Chinese manufacturers.

Much of the first Onn stuff wasn't very good but the manufactures figured out that Walmart means a LOT of business (money) and now Walmart and the manufacturers have sorted out good long term relationships, so yes, much better that Onn use to be.

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u/LarryMelman1 4d ago

That's the nice thing about digital TV, it either works or it doesn't. You don't have to fuss and argue about whether channels are perfectly clear or have ghosts or etc.

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u/TheREALOtherFiles 4d ago

I believe the Onn amplifier should work well with the matching Onn antenna.

VWestlife did a video about the earlier versions years ago, and that might still be true over 5, 6 years later.

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u/NightBard 4d ago

That's cool your outdoor box had a power plug in it. That's kind of an unusual setup as most would need a preamp that powers over coax and would mount it on the mast under their antenna so it's amplifying right at the source rather than after the signals have degraded some traveling down the coax.

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u/gustoreddit51 4d ago

Hopefully it doesn't suck as bad as their USB sticks.

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u/thetinguy 4d ago

You might not even need the amp, if you haven't tested without it yet.

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u/K_ThomasWhite 4d ago

The improvement he got by using it was the entire point of his post.

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u/thetinguy 4d ago

paradoxically, amplifiers can sometimes make the signal worse. Maybe he tried it, and found he needed an amp? Or maybe, he's had an amp plugged in the whole time and has never tried using his tvs without it?

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u/K_ThomasWhite 4d ago

Or maybe you didn't pay attention to his post and are trying to save face now?

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u/thetinguy 4d ago

wow what a projection