Monarch Indoor FM/AM/DAB/DAB+ Aerial, True 60 Mile Range Multidirectional reception radio antenna

I was so cynical and was about to pay an installer to put in an external aerial for my DAB tuner. I bought this based on "one last throw of the dice" after endless disappointments/ I think we must have tried every type of stand-alone DAB aerial, including amplified versions - all of which have done nothing except cause frustration and gritted teeth. This thing, however, does work. Unaccountably it does so by being a long strip of very ugly black plastic with no amplification that you roll out an attach to a wall (or window). It is not thin plastic like the things you get for a car windscreen - think instead a roll of 1mm or so solid plastic sheeting. But it IS well made - and fits perfectly on standard DAB tuners (the ones that need the same sort of connection as a satellite TV). It also has an adaptor so it can be used on tuners that have the alternative female aerial type socket connection (think TV aerial type leads). So the pluses - (1) chances are you WILL get lots of channels, many of which will be with PERFECT reception. (2) It is very well made/manufactured - it is NOT a piece of junk. The negatives - although it is very well made, it is ugly. You could not put this in a window - it would look horrific and block the light. This is a very large piece of flat plastic attached to a long wire. This said, it does work well on a wall - and if you can hide it behind e.g a hifi so you cannot see it what it looks like will not matter. We have hidden most of it behind some wood panelling. Summary: Functionality: -10/10 Quality of manufacture: 10/10 Practicality/'looks': 1/10 unless you can hide it somehow. For us, the £20 or so it cost pales into the £200 minimum I was expecting to pay for someone to install an external one. Yes - that would have been prettier, but it would have worked no better. In fact, many of these external ones have their own problems when it rains. Bottom line: RECOMMEND - and highly. Note: Amazon and the manufacturer both will accept this back no questions asked and refund you if it does not work for you so there is absolutely no risk here.

It took me some time trying to use this antenna before I realised its limitations and strengths which are: 1. A lot of the signal gain is via the connecting cable. This is fine if you are able to locate the cable discretely, but in my case it kept droppng behind a cabinet, so the signal was lost. 2. The instructions suggested attaching to a window. This doesn't work with triple glazing. I tried it in a different room and the signal gain there was good, but that's not where my radio normally lives so it's going back. By the way, the ad makes it look like a box. It's actually a rubber strip with antenna embedded.

This radio aerial is excellent. It is attached to my window and may not be the best looking item but it works. At first I was disappointed because although it improved FM reception to perfection my Tangent Tuner 2 would only automatically scan local stations on DAB and reception was poor. However , I had one channel that I had managed to tune in with very poor reception with the old dipole aerial which was now playing beautifully. So I tried tuning manually and the reception is now exceptional. I am therefore very pleased and this is a much cheaper solution than having an external aerial installed.

Aerial performs excellently and is totally unobtrusive. I pinned it to the back of my CD stand where it cannot be seen. Signal is impressive. Classic FM was marginal with the supplied aerial, occasionally dropping out and noisy. Crystal clear now. Really pleased with it. 1 star given because the courier dumped outside my front door, which is NOT a designated safe place. He then reported that it had been handed to the resident, clearly a lie because (i) I was out all morning and (ii) fortunately, it was still outside my front door when I returned. This is a rare occurrence in all my dealings with Amazon, but still not impressed.

Well made but stiff 400mm long Black antenna x 100mm wide strip is a eyesore? White be far better, comes with 15 feet of cable with add on coax connector and F connector fitted as standard is very nice However my came it with the FM receiver/ Amp "plastic 'T' aerial" gives a much stronger FM and DAB good Stereo signal already So no matter where i placed the RGTech Monarch aerial on side wall/ front wall/ next to a window wall it at times gave a weak Stereo FM signal (with slight hiss) mono was fine (if you like a mono only radio station DAB signal i gave up with trying worse thing is every time you reposition/ move the RGTech Monarch you need to re tune your FM Radio or FM Receiver otherwise it not work as well Doubt if NASA had much to do with this RGTech Monarch its a bit cheap looking (but its a £20 aerial It was returned to Amazon i was not impressed

At last I can listen to my radio with good reception! I installed this aerial in my house in Spain – this is significant because radio broadcasting in Spain is in a state of anarchy. New stations pop up overnight apparently without a licence and often close to, or actually sharing, frequencies of existing stations creating major reception problems. They are all quite low power and being in a mountainous area poor reception is the norm. This Monarch indoor aerial is very easy to install. It gives great reception with good signal strength and lets me tune in to my preferred stations without any interference and in stable stereo. With my Bang and Olufsen 6500 system I can now scan and pre-select frequencies – impossible with my previous aerials. And for the first time, the B&O “station locked” light illuminates, I get better reception and I can listen without fading, distortion or interference. Amazingly, it doesn’t seem to matter how this indoor aerial is orientated once you have found the best position. You get great reception and excellent signal strength whether it is installed vertically, horizontally, flat or on its edge. Mine is on top of a tall bookcase on the opposite side of the house from the transmitters. The B&O is unusual having a male aerial connector, so I had to use a male-female adaptor – but it still gave perfect reception. I just wish I had found this indoor aerial years ago. I am about to order my second aerial now!

I was looking for an aerial for FM/DAB radio for a newly purchased Taga system that powers the rest of my hifi. The radio always has a dull hiss behind the reception of my favourite local BBC station. The options provided with the Taga don’t quite do it and other aerials for sale here looked to be around the same size and quality as what I already had. So I spent £20 on the RGTech Monarch and was pleasantly surprised. The instructions suggest mounting the flexible black sheet that comes with it in a window. I can’t do that as the only place to site my hifi system in my house is on a cabinet in an alcove in the centre of the property. However, I plugged the end of the long connecting wire in to the unit, held my breath as I turned the unit turned on… no hiss, no crackle! That changed a little as I experimented with placement but I could always find somewhere that it worked as advertised. I have now sited the black plate behind a picture frame so it’s invisible and allowed the thick black connecting wire to coil down beneath the cabinet, still a bit unsightly but perfectly acceptable and it works. What I haven’t done as yet is to retune to look for additional stations (which I’ll never use) but I’m very happy with a much improved sound quality and, for me, it was £20 well spent!

Seems to function ok, when it stays on the wall. Not long, however before the adhesive pads fail and it falls off. I've tried sticking with Blutack, but still comes away eventually. The trouble is the fact that it comes rolled up, and is difficult to unroll and stay straight. The tension created from being curved causes it to pull away from the wall. I'll get there in the end, but it's annoying at the moment.

Funciona bien. No lo he comparado con otras antenas pero como es muy compacto me parece muy funcional

Die dem Technisat Digitradio 143 beigefügte Wurfantenne brachte im DAB+ Bereich durchaus einen passablen Empfang. Im FM Bereich empfahl sich die Mono-Einstellung. Verschiedentliche ausprobierte DAB+ Antennenalternativen brachten keine Verbesserung, eher sogar schlechteren. Hatten häufige Signalfehlermeldungen. Die RGTech Monarch AM/FM/DAB Indoor Aeriel brachte eine erfreuliche Überraschung. Sie überzeugt durch einen guten stabilen Empfang im DAB+ Bereich. Mein DLF Empfang stieg um einen weiteren auf vier Empfangsbalken, der weitgehend gehalten wird. Nähere Sender, wie z.B. SWR1, zeigen vollen Empfang an. Auch im FM Bereich können durchaus Stereo Wiedergaben erfolgen. Das Antennenkabel ist ausreichend lang, so daß verschiedene Antennenpositionen probiert werden können. Meine Antenne ist in der Nähe des Empfängers an der Wand befestigt. Aus optischen Gründen mit einem Tuch verhängt, was dem ganzen einen gewissen Reiz gibt. Geschmackssache. Die Antenne hat einen F-Stecker, zwei Adapter sind beigefügt, z.B. für den klassischen Radioantennenanschluß. Die Leistung der Antenne überzeugt, von daher empfehlenswert. Nachtrag: Eine zweite Antenne erfüllt die Erwartungen auch in einem schwierigen Empfangsbereich im Keller. Klarer, stabiler Empfang im Mono Modus, aber hierbei kam es sogar bei einer Oehlbach-Dipol-Antenne zu Empfangsstörungen. Selbst Stereo rauscht weniger, ist aber unter den Gegebenheiten nicht vonnöten.

Det beror kanske på var jag bor?? Men det ska gå att få in kanaler om man tittar på en täckningskarta. Tyvärr så fick jag inte in en enda så för mig så var det ett väldigt misslyckat köp....

Dopo aver provato mille antenne per migliorare la ricezione della mia radio DAB, ho risolto con quest'antenna. La ricezione è molto migliorata e finalmente stabile.

Ok