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So, it's not technically wrong to market something as a digital dish/antenna, especially if you're aiming at people that have had their setup for ages. Apart from that it's marketing, of course.
An eBay seller is offering an omnidirectional aerial and alleging 96dB gain!It's a "digital HD TV indoor and outdoor antenna/aerial".Bearing in mind that, by definition, an omnidirectional (= 360 degree) aerial always has a gain of less than unity (<1) even 0.96dB would be optimistic. So suggesting that it's a hundred times higher must surely be fraudulent. Even if it incorporated a high gain amplifier, 100 x (<1) is still less than one - plus a lot of amplifier noise.Amazingly, this seller has NO negative feedback so the darn thing must pick up a signal. It makes me wonder whether I should drop a coil of wire into a plastic deodorant bottle, glue it to a magnetic base and sell it as a 1000 dB antenna."We have a very low antenna returns rate (approx 1 in 17)"That's nearly six percent. If I had that return rate on any product, I'd stop selling it (and I have done so on a few products).Of course they can get away with this because, in many parts of the UK, you can pick up a signal with a coat hanger. However, a coat hanger doesn't cost