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For the curious... I went with the HB 33, along with 50' of RG11. It appeared the HB22 would work, and likely the HB44 would be even better (as recommended above), but my wife prefers to not have a 10'+ antenna up there.
Assembly was easy.
Only hitch to installation was the antenna mast - I ordered everything from SolidSignal, including 2 5' sections of their recommended mast (SolidSignal brand, on sale of course), only to discover that its does NOT go together (I called, checked, and mentioned to them that if their 5' masts are 5' and not sections (like every other mast they sell it turns out) that can be put together they really should note it on their web site. So right now I only have it a few feet off the peak of the roof. Thankfully it is still 25' or so up, and we're on a bank over the river so signal wise we're not in a bad spot.
Channel wise we get everything listed in "yellow" and above (35 stations or so), which was a pleasant surprise.
The only channel we don't seem to get, which surprises me as we get them "above" and "below" is channel 7 (virtual 23.1) (Fox). The antenna is actually pointing right at that tower, and we get many of the other stations that are broadcasting from the same tower (admittedly they are UHF instead of VHF, but I"m used to VHF traveling further...).
Thank you all for your help - it is appreciated!
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