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This is an excellent HDTV antennae. Extremely lightweight, easy to adjust, and hardly noticeable on your roof due to its size. It pulls in stations farther away than my previous oversize and long range antennae. Signal is clearer with no distortion. Highly recommend this antennae.

This is the first roof antenna I've installed at my current house so I can't compare to a traditional UHF antenna but I can say it works quite nicely.

My Conditions:
The Antenna is on the roof of a 3 story house in a semi-urban area (Lancaster, PA).
Surrounding buildings range from 3 to 10 stories tall.
All the stations I care about are within about 50 degrees of a center-line.
The antenna is pointed directly at the furthest station I'm trying to reach, which is about 36 miles away (WITF near Harrisburg); Coincidentally there is also a 6 story apartment building directly in it's path, about 3 blocks away.
My cable run is about 70 feet from the antenna to the TV.
For what it's worth, the TV is a new Westinghouse LCD.

Observations:
On initial setup I was quite happy, I received all the channels in the surrounding area. I also unexpectedly pick up some Philadelphia channels off the back of the antenna but in analogue B&W so I'm sure they won't come through after the DTV transition.
There is some noticeable multipath interference on some channels, probably due to the relatively high gain from the back of this antenna (check out the graphs on the antennas-direct website); it's not enough interference to cause issues with digital channels though, just ghosting on the analog channels.
After a couple weeks I noticed that on stormy or overcast days the digital signal for WITF, the station furthest away and behind an apt building, would cut in and out. I tried tweaking around with the antenna angle but to no avail. I have since purchased an amplifier: Motorola 484095-001-00 Signal Booster which I hooked up between the TV and the receiving side of my antenna cable; The signal never drops off anymore.

Bottom line:
It's a really good antenna; When paired with an amplifier it meets all my needs. The stated 50 mile range is probably unattainable without perfectly clear line of sight, but it does 36 pretty well under my conditions.

PS. It's a heck of a lot smaller and less ugly than a traditional antenna also.

I installed this in the rafters of my garage. It still brought in digital channels from 75 miles away, even though it is only rated to about 55 miles out. To top it off, the channels it brought in from 75 miles away were channels 4 and 9 (i.e., VHF channels) when this is listed as a UHF only antenna. I would not hesitate to recommend this antenna to anybody that needed an antenna.

The location of the antennae is 13 miles west of Chicago.

It's mounted on the J Mount and located in the attic.

Using the RG6 cable, the reception is excellent.

Would recommend it. Make sure the tuner mode is on antennae mode

and scan your TV through the channels. Good Luck

I live in South Miami Beach-FL and I was able to install the antenna inside my apartment without any assitance or trouble. The Antenna has a great design and size, however it does not receive any VHF HDTV Channels (such as FOX 7.1 and ABC 10.1 which are less than 15miles far from my apartment) and its specification says it was designed to receive both ranges (VHF and UHF). I contacted the vendor 2 times thru their website and they never returned my email. I am really happy with signal quality of all the UHF channels that I receive and due its gain I am able to watch FOX via channel UHF 29.1 from West Palm Beach but I lost ABC. very disappointed with the manufacturer tech support and customer service.