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(More customer reviews)I've installed TV antennas in my second story attic for many years with good success. The distance from my home to the mountain where the Los Angeles TV transmitters are is about 30 miles and all line of sight (ignore the smog). After adding some air conditioning duct work in the second story attic, my old VHF/UHF TV antenna just didn't perform as well. I think the extra metal duct work created multipath interference problems. I could have moved the old antenna outside, but after standing on the second story roof and contemplating the fall to the lawn below, I decided to go for a new UHF high gain antenna and keep it in the attic. I read many reviews about another popular brand that had good specs, but it's construction was very poor. That lead me to pick this antenna based on it's high gain (to overcome the loss through the roof) and small height size (not much room in my attic. The mechanical construction of this antenna is very good. It only took a few minutes to pre-assemble it (snap elements to boom) before taking it up in the attic. I mounted it on a 1.25" wooden dowel and had a family member watch the signal strength indictor on our big Samsung LCD TV. It was very easy to know when it was pointed correctly. As would be expected with any high gain antenna, the beam width is very narrow. Moving the antenna just 5 degrees would make a significant improvement (or degradation) to the signal strength.
It has been a few weeks now, and a few rain storms have come and gone. I'm happy to report that we have never experienced poor signal quality with this antenna.
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