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southern MN | You went to the Owatonna show? I looked up his antennas and they don't have the best rating, lot of folk say they are mighty cheap to be outdoors..... As well, I don't understand how one uses a rotor with a digital TV. Nearly all of them you'd need to rescan for channels any time you turned the antenna, what a pain.
Denny's web site has some real good advice and merchandise.
http://www.dennysantennaservice.com/
What you need is a clear view to the station you want to pull in. Higher generally helps with that. No trees, buildings, hill in the way.
Then, the farther away it is, the bigger is better deal.
60 miles or less is easy to pull in, 60-100 miles you have to work at.
Your location is really important, they have maps and stuff that account a bit for terrain and all to see what size antenna you need, what direction to point the antenna.
http://transition.fcc.gov/mb/engineering/dtvmaps/
Generally a booster that has a little Gismo up on the antenna and you have real good shielded cable and then the bottom has the booster that plugs into power. This will really stablize a jumpy signal.
That's the basics.
I'm pulling about 80 miles as the crow flies.
What are you near, Cities, St Cloud, one of the repeater deals?
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Well, got rid of the Direct TV.....
