Four Element Directional Outdoor FM Antenna

Nice little antenna at a really fair price. Great for cleaning up fm stations within 75 miles or so or for the beginning DX'er who wants to explore what's out there. High quality, polished aluminum. Seamless .388" (9.85mm) elements that don't whine in the wind or ice up inside. .715" square aluminum boom and a unique mast mount which will allow you to angle the antenna upwards (for whatever reason) or install flat as we normally do. You do not have to totally disassemble the mount to attach the antenna to a pole, or tower mount, or some strange side bracket...nice if you're a tower climber or stuck having to fasten it one handed. No need for a 300 to 75 ohm matching transformer on this thing...it's built into the driven element in a nice waterproof housing. Even the boom and the elements are waterproofed by end caps. This unit is pretty well thought out. It goes together real easy despite and instruction book that makes no sense. One note: Put the mast clamp on the boom near the balance point, NOT where the drawing shows it. If you are a DX'er or antenna experimenter you'll have fun with this setup. If you want to add on to it, don't buy a bunch of aluminum somewhere. Just buy a second antenna. It's cheaper and you'll get everything you need including the hardware you need to attach the elements to the boom. One word of warning...once you stretch the boom out to 90-100" you'll get some droop so slip some 5/8" metal tubing inside the boom for some strength. I bought 3 and I'm currently building a vertically stacked pair of 6 element units.

There are fewer and fewer dedicated outdoor directional FM antennas being manufactured for the United States. I have the mother of all FM antennas as my reference. An APS 13 with an average gain of over 9db and a Front-Back ratio of over 30 db. I had to rebuild it due to storms. However, placement is key. If there is no signal reaching the antenna then it does not matter how great the gain is on the antenna. I have learned to walk along the roof and locate where the strongest signal is for the desired station you are trying to receive. Have you ever been in your car in your driveway and notice your favorite FM distant station will disappear as the car is moving from one spot to another spot. The key is finding that spot where the signal reaches. Generally, height is your friend. With all this being said, I have found this antenna to do a very good job, overall and discovered it is picking up my favorite distant low powered alternative rock station better than my APS 13. I am sure the APS 13 would pick up the same station better if I relocated the APS to the same location as the Stellar labs but the Stellar does allow me to listen to multiple stations that are on the same frequency. Install a rotor. And good to go. For fun I build my own antennas and if you want to make this antenna have more gain you can add additional directors. I am ecstatic with this antenna! ❤️

Good directional antenna, works well in attic with a cement tile roof. The wing thumb screws that hold elements in place are poorly made, the plastic wings are loose and fall off the metal threads.

Item is reasonable quality, but it is VERY poorly packed and fragile - and it is abused during the shipping process. The first one I had to return because it was destroyed. The second is damaged but less so, and I don't have time to keep shipping back and forth.

You guys at Stellar Labs made my day. This FM directional antenna came highly recommended by the owner of the radio station where I do my jazz show. I live out in the country and get a weak signal for my station. I placed this antenna up around 25 feet. Trials of turning the antenna slowly until I found a strong signal from the tower. I am very happy with this product. The only issue I have is that the Spark Plug boot, ( that is to go over the coax cable to the female receive on the balen), is impossible. I tried using a hair dryer to soften and stretch the boot without success. I decided to make a cover for the coax cable receiver end. I first placed a waterproof tape over the connection. I then added a small section of insulation foam over the connection, and placed waterproof tape over the insulation. I fixed the insulation foam snugly upward with a heavy duty zip tie. It is now well protected from the elements. Thanks guys at Stellar Labs. Steve in Tavares

The first antenna arrived damaged due to weak packaging and rough handling, It was replaced without any problem. The antenna arrived, and it was as advertised. I found the manufacture of the antenna to be flimsy. I don't think it will survive any prolonged wind, but then you get what you pay for. The antenna had good gain, and brought in some distant stations. Here comes the bad part...Yagi antennas are supposed to be directional, and this antenna does a poor job of picking up stations much better in a particular direction. I wanted to pick up a more distant station, but another station a bit closer was too strong. If the antenna had more of a directional pickup, it should have increased the signal in the direction it was pointed, Problem is the interference was worse. In fairness this was not my first choice, but was the only one available. This antenna clearly needs more elements to make the signal pattern more directional. I had a 6 element yagi that simply died of old age. This antenna would improve reception greatly if they added 1 more director, and 1 more deflector element. I found some stations over 50 miles away came in the same no matter which direction I had the antenna pointed in. It's a decent product, but don't expect miracles. I did however find a lot more stations, and that was great. The station that was not receivable came in loud and clear, 160 miles away. But it had no other stations on the dial that were close enough to cause an issue. In reality, this antenna is almost omni-directional. Just not enough gain in only 1 direction. I am thinking about buying another one and using a stacked array to make it more directional. What is needed is a 6 element antenna.....

I used this for FM. The folded dipole is probably optimized at about 94 mhz or so. This is an improvement for me over the past folded dipole. This one has an extra director to make four elements. I have it mounted inside, so I cannot attest to the long duration outside. It is well made for the intended use, but don't jump on it. I received stations from about 50-60 miles away and I am in a bit of a bowl. Extra height would make a big difference also. Mine is mounted about 10 feet above the floor. In general, it's made sturdy enough, gets distance stations enough and should be a good antenna for those using this strictly for FM reception.

I mounted this antenna on my roof with a rotor on the same mast as an old winegard five element fm broadcast band yagi that I bought from radio shack years go. This new antenna blows the old winegard antenna away. It is especially good for blocking out a nearby station signal to pull in a much more distant station, provided you aim it correctly. I have picked up stations up to 106 miles away. I live in cleveland Ohio and I was able to pick up Windsor, Ontario and leamington, Ontario, also picked up Youngstown Ohio. Easy to install and assemble. I would say worth the money my very effective if used with a rotor.