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Installed the MS-2000 in my attic on the side of my house facing Houston. Installation was easy and painless. Using a small TV at the antenna, I was able to find the sweet spot between two fringe stations. So the MS-2000 did not prove to be as omnidirectional as I had hoped. After checking the TVs in the house, I found that I was still able to tune the rabbit ears and get better reception than I was getting with the MS-2000. This gave me the idea to take the rabbit ears up to the attic and plug them into the Winegard's power block. I now have fantastic reception throughout the house, although I must admit I wish I had thought of this before spending the money for the Winegard antenna.

The MS-2000 was not as wonderful as the reviews make it out to be. I don't know why, but for some strange reason the one channel with the strong signal with regular rabbit ears is now the one with a weak signal on the MS-2000. The other channels saw a little improvement. Some really distant channels showed up, but they are so weak that they constantly stop. The MS-2000 appears to not work without the amplifier and kind of makes me wonder if the model without one would work better. The good part is that I am off cable. Now to find a switch, so that I can use both the rabbit ears and the MS-2000 and correct that weak signal channel. Reversing a cable splitter and connecting both antennas to it did not work.

This antenna has worked great for me. I tried a Terk outdoor antenna first (the one that looks like a giant sausage) and it pulled two stations in. I think the amplifier it came with may have been faulty. This one, however, worked great first time. It does need the amplifier to work well (it also only pulled in two stations prior to plugging in the amp.) but after that the results have been great. Because it's omnidirectional you don't have to spend anytime fine tuning it's direction. I had to rate it as hard to use because mounting an external antenna outside is not an easy task. That would be true with any permanently mounted outdoor antenna though. I also helped someone else in the neighborhood who had wired the inputs wrong into the amplifier. Once I turned them around he also was able to get all the HDTV channels in the city. I cannot say enough good things about this antenna, and would guess it would work well at least 40 miles away from the towers. I've seen some bad reviews of this antenna and my guess would be they are due to a faulty amplifier. I wouldn't give up on the antenna if you have troubles without swapping out the amp if possible.

I had this item on my patio but tucked away from the elements. It worked great for 2 months then just stopped working.

I was quite pleased at the immediate results that this antenna produced once I installed it. We had given up watching television programming entirely (which in retrospect wasn't such a bad idea) as our rabbit ears didn't deliver reception good enough to hold a signal more than 2 or 3 minutes. Upon installation of the antenna ( on an abandoned satellite dish mount on a lower roof) we immediately got all of the local stations consistently. However, as time passes the reception seems to be declining. Stations that originally gave a strong steady signal are increasingly fading in and out. I plan on moving the antenna to the higher part of the roof and hope that solves the problem. I do remember reading a previous review, before purchase, of the same symptoms. Maybe it is just a fault in the amplifier? There are no other moving parts so that is the only place I can figure the problem can be.