First off, my report:
http://www.tvfool.com/?option=com_wr...8d17e532c89f58
I'm a cable customer who is having to cut cable not for the reason most do, but because I can't afford it. Due to unemployment and other life issues, I have to go to OTA.
I have a one story house in an area that is pretty darned flat - I'm about 10 miles outside of Dallas, a mostly concrete jungle.
My house is nothing special, brick house, and I planned on putting this inside - but not in the attic. The room the antenna will be in does not have a window on the wall it will be sitting by - but there is one elsewhere in the room. Outside, there's some trees around, but we're not talking a forest, like a tree in every other house on the block. Due to mostly cost issues, putting an antenna on the roof is not my first choice. It's most definitely something I couldn't do myself anyway - I'm one of those "can't do it myself, I'll pay someone" type of guys.
Anyway, from my report - all the channels I care about are in the green, which would bode well for me using an indoor antenna. Be nice to get some in the yellow and above areas, but I'm not gonna lose sleep over it. However, just about all of the transmitters are approaching (or a tad over) 30 miles, which seems to be a key mileage number with reception. Would that be a problem for me?
Anyway, the antenna I was looking at was
this one. Read on these forums a bit, and there seems to be a prevailing opinion here that you don't want a powered antenna, you want an unpowered one. I'm not being combative here, but can someone explain that? I always thought the powered ones help when signals are weak.
I have not actually purchased anything at this point, I'm just doing research right now, so there's nothing for me to "try" yet.