[captain_tinker]

I read about TV Fool on a review of a Winegard antenna on Amazon. So I figured I'd come check it out. It looks like I am about 37 miles from most of the signal towers in my area, and they are all around, but most of them are in one specific direction. Antennaweb suggested I go with a Medium Omni-Directional. So I've been looking at the Winegard MS-2002, or maybe the HD-1080, even though it doesn't look omnidirectional. I am thinking the best place to put it is in the very front of my garage, up in the attic, about 13 ft above the garage floor. I live in a stucco/tile roof home, but the front of the garage is right next to the wall, and no roof directly in the way, so it would only have to go through the stucco wall. I want to tie the signal from the antenna into the cables that are already run into the house. We have three TV's and an HD-Homerun network tuner for my HTPC. So I figure I would likely have to use a pre-amplifier too with all those inputs and long cable runs. I am just wondering, will either of those antennas work ok in the house behind just a stucco wall? It's not like the roof will be in the way too. There is not a really good place for me to put the antenna outside, and the extreme heat in this area of California in the summer, and incessant rain in the winter, I wouldn't expect any antenna to do well for very long.