Thanks, ADTech. I appreciate the feedback.
I may give it a shot - worst case, I'm out $20ish. I think it might work, seeing as the 6" stick antenna that came with the Hauppauge 950Q had no problem pulling in the majority of the higher powered UHF stations. I have a couple pre-amps lying around that I can test with, as well (an older CM-7777 and the RCA TVPRAMP1R), and have a few tuners I can juggle around with, since I use a MediaPortal-based DVR (Hauppauge 2250, 950Q, 1600, and a HDHomerun4). I am also somewhat interested in the ClearStream 5, but there is a little bit of a sticker shock with it's price