San Jose Newspaper Reviews RCA Indoor Antenna

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San Jose Mercury News writer Troy Wolverton discusses off-air TV reception with an indoor antenna in his article Tech Test Drive: RCA ANT1500 Flat Multidirectional Indoor Antenna. Wolverton lives in San Jose and has had problems with over-the-air reception.

He compares the $30 compact ANT1500 with a large $99 Philips indoor-outdoor antenna that he called "awful". He was surprised to find the lower-cost ANT1500 provided reception of about 10 channels, as compared with one intermittent channel when using the Philips antenna. He was also happy to find he didn't have to worry about how he positioned the RCA antenna.

A picture is available on the RCA ANT1500 Web page.

Doug Lung
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Doug Lung is one of America's foremost authorities on broadcast RF technology. As vice president of Broadcast Technology for NBCUniversal Local, H. Douglas Lung leads NBC and Telemundo-owned stations’ RF and transmission affairs, including microwave, radars, satellite uplinks, and FCC technical filings. Beginning his career in 1976 at KSCI in Los Angeles, Lung has nearly 50 years of experience in broadcast television engineering. Beginning in 1985, he led the engineering department for what was to become the Telemundo network and station group, assisting in the design, construction and installation of the company’s broadcast and cable facilities. Other projects include work on the launch of Hawaii’s first UHF TV station, the rollout and testing of the ATSC mobile-handheld standard, and software development related to the incentive auction TV spectrum repack. A longtime columnist for TV Technology, Doug is also a regular contributor to IEEE Broadcast Technology. He is the recipient of the 2023 NAB Television Engineering Award. He also received a Tech Leadership Award from TV Tech publisher Future plc in 2021 and is a member of the IEEE Broadcast Technology Society and the Society of Broadcast Engineers.