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I recently purchased a large and small flat panel tv's that had digital and analogue receivers built in. The large was a Sony and the small was a Dynex. I built two highly touted digital antenna's. The results were not impressive. Being a pack rat I installed an old UHF antenna for the older tv's. This antenna is simply a circular loop of wire. The chrome coated wire is 0.075 inch diameter and forms an approximate 8 inch diameter circle that can be incrementally adjusted with the loop being anywhere from horizontal to vertical. The antenna for the large tv was installed near east and south facing windows of our bungalow located near Car Canada between Manotick and North Gower. I used the tv channel search option to find tv channel reception. After looking at the signal of the worst channel I adjusted the rotation of the vertical circular loop antenna and performed a second channel search. My result for english channels was 6 analog channels and 5 digital channels. There were 6 french analog channels and 1 (CBC) digital channel. On my older tv's I used rabbit ears with 3 analog channels with decent reception and 3 analog channels with snowy reception. With the new tv's I have 2 analog channels that are snowy. The other analog and digital channels have perfectly clear signals. Better than what we are used to and equal to cable tv reception.The smaller tv has the antenna in a north facing window. The result is similar to the east and south facing windows but I had more difficulty adjusting the antenna to get good reception for SUN TV at 20.1. In future I am going to experiment with larger diameter loop antenna's. I use a 300 ohm to 75 ohm adapter (from pack rat collection) between the loop antenna and the 75 ohm cable feeding the tv antenna input. Trucker, if you don't have access to one of the older UHF circular antenna's then try making an 8 inch loop with a wire coat hangar. You will still need a 300 ohm to 75 ohm adapter to connect to the tv.