I had an interesting situation - wanted to see if anyone has experienced this.
Most of the towers are around 25 miles away - I was using rabbit ears, which worked okay for the main channels, but it was not consistent.. So I decided to get a bigger antenna and put it in the attic.
I cut and stripped the cable in the attic, running down to the outlet in the living room - I also hung the antenna in the attic. However, I did not connect the cable to the antenna as I needed to get an f-connector to install on the stripped cable.
I was just curious, so I hooked a cable up to my tv.. and much to my surprise I picked up quite a few channels, actually better than the rabbit ears in the house.. How?? Simply stripping the cable and leaving it in the attic allowed it to pick up OTA?? I was shocked..