Why Indoor Antennas have reception issues

We fix Indoor antenna issues a lot. Most antenna reception issues are 100% fixable. One of the things we hear every day is “I don’t get good antenna reception where I live.” In reality 99% of the Colorado Front Range can get 80+ Free OTA TV channels wo any reception issues.

Sadly there are thousands of cheap indoor Chinese antennas that promise way too much and have an extreme amount of mis information online. Is an indoor antenna cheaper? Yes. Will it get some Free channels? Yes. Will an indoor antenna get you all the major local network channels wo reception issues? NO, not unless you are lucky and live really close to the Free TV towers with direct line of sight from your TV.

Key reasons why indoor antennas do not work

• Distance from broadcast towers: The further you are from a TV station’s transmission tower, the weaker the signal will be, making it harder for an indoor antenna to receive it properly. 
• Obstructions: Buildings, trees, hills, and even indoor electrical appliances can block the signal reaching your antenna, significantly impacting reception. 
• Building materials: Certain construction materials like brick, metal siding, and stucco can weaken the signal coming into your home. 
• Antenna placement: If your indoor antenna is not positioned correctly, facing the direction of the broadcast towers, it may not pick up the signal effectively. It is also not as high as it needs to be – outside on the highest point of your house will have the best effect.
• Poor quality antenna: A cheap or poorly designed indoor antenna does not have the necessary power to pull in a weak signal.

Best TV Antenna to guarantee no reception issues

In our 14+ years in business, we have tested every kind of antenna you can imagine. There is no “Best” indoor antenna, none of these work anywhere near as well as the more powerful outdoor or attic antennas StreamWise Solutions installs day in and day out for 14 years.

Indoor antennas are weaker and do not allow us to point in the correct direction w/o interference. This makes them subject to breakups and dreaded pixelation. Pixelation is the breakup of antenna signals that results in audio lapses and weird little squares on your TV screen.

Solution to fixing indoor antenna reception issues

Please save your time and money and dont buy a bunch of cheap ugly indoor antennas to clutter up your home. Streamwise Solutions gets nothing but 5 star reviews because we install a small yet powerful outdoor or attic antenna up high with our $2,000 signal meter to guarantee reception. This is a solution that will work for life, not a temporary half baked impulse buy that will lead to nothing but frustration.

A more powerful Outdoor or Attic antenna is how we guarantee signal to ensure you are not missing channels or experiencing annoying picture break up in the middle of your local news, Broncos game or favorite show. We wish we could install the cheap indoor antennas, it would be much easier and less expensive. However, in this case you get what you pay for. Unless you are ok with missing channels and constant pixelation when you are watching TV do NOT use indoor antennas.

Other reasons to not use indoor antennas

Indoor antennas also clutter up your home since you need to put one on every TV and they look terrible because they need to be high up on the wall, or blocking your window view with cables running everywhere. A more powerful Outdoor or Attic antenna properly installed by StreamWise Solutions can actually improve reception by 80% or more!

“The Antenna is the easy part, it’s everything else that makes it difficult to get great reception.”

The other problem with indoor antennas is that you will need one for each TV in your home. So, if you have three TVs you will need three indoor antennas. This means that you will spend $60 – $200 on antennas and it is highly probable that each TV will not tune the same channels because the antennas will all be facing in different directions.

Don’t get us wrong – installing indoor antennas is sometimes the only option in apartments. However, we do not install them in apartments unless we are doing a Master Antenna, because we cannot guarantee signal quality and you will always have reception issues. With an outdoor antenna placed high on the roof or in the attic we can ensure that you will have uninterrupted signal on the channels we tune in! Go check out reviews online for indoor antennas and compare that with ALL of the hundreds of incredible StreamWise Solutions reviews…

Call StreamWise Solutions today for a free consultation on your coverage area and how we can assist you on getting the channels you need with the best option of antennas for your TV viewing.