mtownsend, Ok I built this antenna while doing my homework to buy a "real" antenna.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDRoTujiAw8
On the first scan we got 22 channels, getting some that I did not know were there? Naples and Ft Meyers Bch on the west coast to name two. The home built antenna is laying flat on a table on our deck which faces south. All northern stations would be shielded from the house right now. I'll wait til it warms up to get up on the roof for a better all around signal. This can actually be kinda fun, might not be buying anything.
Some 5-6 of these channels are useless of course but the networks are there including NBC which I thought was out of the question? Why do we pick up Naples to the SW ... using Google earth it looks to be about 135 miles away??