Televes is a Spanish company, and being European, they strive for higher quality
I had first heard of Televes back in 2016. Our company called solid signal was marketing them but couldn't keep up with the orders. I moved on to other brands. My situation was complicated. I have two TV markets Chicago and Milwaukee. Being an OTA enthusiast, I wanted both markets despite some overlapping stations I was able to get local news from both cities. When you have two markets approximately 180° opposite of each other, it's almost impossible to get the full signals from each station because of a phenomenon known as phase cancellation or multi-path. With one antenna aimed at Chicago and one antenna aimed at Milwaukee, I was receiving two sets of signals on each antenna, canceling each other out. That was the first problem which I'll explain later. The second problem was trees. The only way I could receive Chicago stations was to have two pairs of antennas. This created a wind problem. Eventually I lost that set of antennas in a windstorm. I decided I needed single antennas that were strong enough to pick up the Chicago stations. Enter Televes. After doing some very extensive research I settled on the repack ready 148383s. One antenna to cover all three bands. UHF, VHF high and VHF low. This allowed me to replace six antennas with two Televes and receive more stations. Now for the problem of combining two antennas aimed in different directions. As explained earlier, I had already tried combining them with little success. Using traditional combining methods IE splitter in reverse, the weaker stations would cancel out and even the stronger stations had trouble in different weather conditions. The only viable solution was to have a Chicago antenna on one TV input and a Milwaukee antenna on the other TV input. This makes it complicated complicated shifting back and forth between inputs. That is what I settle for until I discovered the Televes Avant-X a high technology solution for combining television antennas. Now for the problem of combining two antennas aimed in different directions. As explained earlier, I had already tried combining them with little success. Using traditional combining methods IE splitter in reverse, the weaker stations would cancel out and even the stronger stations had trouble in different weather conditions. The only viable solution was to have a Chicago antenna on one TV input and a Milwaukee antenna on the other TV input. This makes it complicated complicated shifting back and forth between inputs. That is what I settle for until I discovered the Televes Avant-X a high technology solution for combining television antennas. Previously using other combining methods my maximum station count was 90 to 110. Suddenly, I'm receiving 147 to 156 TV stations depending on weather conditions of course. These TelevesTV antennas are capable of pulling in low power TV stations from 40 and 50 miles away. The technology is amazing as they have built-in preamps that can actually change the amount of amplification depending on what is needed at the time. This combined with a new design tuned to the new FCC frequency also known as "the repack" (the repack has eliminated the upper part of the of the old television frequency spectrum) makes this antenna a technology leader. As mentioned earlier I did a lot of research and found that none of the other American or Chinese antenna companies offer repack ready antennas. Televes is a Spanish company, and being European, they strive for higher quality.
