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Its fairly small and picks up everything with full bars! I live ~50 miles from most stations and even the VHF, blue, and violet zones come in full bars.

Purchased this antenna a few months ago. Placed it on the floor of the attic pointing to Mt. Wilson. Received more than 30 stations. Very satisfied!

Easy to assemble. No tools required - really!
Great UHF reception from within an attic. ... but I had forgotten that some channels switch to VHF in June. Argh! Make sure you really only need an UHF antenna.

Antennas are difficult to rate in reviews because everyone's installation is different. But I can say this antenna seems to be well made, durable for the outdoors, and installing it was easy. It picks up signal very well, but again that's specific to my location, the transmitters range, etc. I looked around and this seemed to be the best medium range, unidirectional non-amplified antenna on the market for ATSC. the beam width is spec'd at a few degrees but I have found it to be much wider and more forgiving than that. I easily pick up transmitters 45 degrees off axis.

This is a great antenna. It went together fairly easy, the mast takes a little elbow grease but overall fairly easy. The instructions aren't entirley accurate as this does not have a 'clip' to fasten the antenna cable to the mast with as the instructions depict. No big deal however, I mounted this antenna on the same mast that I removed the sattelite dish from and it was extremely easy. I went to antennaweb.org and obtained the compass direction that the antenna needed to point in order to recieve the best reception. I used a regular compas with degree markings and 'aimed' the antenna. Once I got the cable hooked up to my HDTV, I was amazed at the reception of the digital channels. Even though this is a UHF antenna, it still picked up the regular, analog TV channels as well. I live about 30-40 miles from the city where the broadcast stations are, and a few more stations are in other direction about 50 miles away. Still no problem getting reception. I suggest mounting it high, on the roof as opposed to the attic, and use a compass. You'll be impressed, my girlfriend thought I had got cable hooked up.