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    I was wanting something simple and cheap for the cottage. Don't feel like spending a couple hundred for a conventional antenna setup.
     
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    Since I've owned a house I've never had cable. We have an HD Frequency Cable Cutter CC-17 antenna. Currently it's just behind the tv in the living room but will eventually be attic mounted. About $80 and we probably get 35 channels. NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox all kinds of PBS and a slew of other crap antenna channels. We do pay for Hulu and Netflix to supplement, but no cable.
     
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    I can't comment on that antenna, but we do get 100% of our tv "OTA" (free) with one of those old school large antennas on a 20' tower. We can get ~40 channels.
    I understand that the new ones are much smaller than ours, guess I would actually have to try one to compare 'em...
     
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    And how far is the furthest station that you can puck up?
     
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    Hmm, I don't how far it would be in a straight line...50 miles or more?
    Better than an hour drive for sure
     
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    That's a good question, as most of our stuff would come from TC, and that's over 70 miles from us, if I remember correctly.
     
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    I'm not sure. We are about 50 miles north of the Cincinnati area and we get a couple channels from there. There are websites that you can plug in your address and it will show channels available, distance and the general direction from where they come from. We are in suburbia so signal isn't much of a challenge here.
     
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    That is the exact antenna I use to pick up distant stations. We live in the middle of nowhere and pick up stations from Mankato and Minneapolis in Minnesota and Mason City, Des Moines, and Fort Dodge in Iowa. Not everything comes in all the time, but this is the only antenna I have found that does this well.
     
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    Now that's exactly what I was looking for! Someone that has one and can tell me how satisfied they are with it. :yes:
    Thank you, thank you. :thumbs:

    Next stop, ordering it out! :ups:
     
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    This thread reminds me, I've had one of those $200 antennas sitting in the basement for 3 years that I've never put up. I only paid $40 new for it at an auction and intended on setting up a DVR system with it once I cancelled cable, but since getting Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime and HBO Go I haven't really "needed" it since I don't watch sports or the news.
     
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    Same here, just use a $10 Big Lots antenna. Funny thing is the channels also come in without the antenna if I have my old Nintendo Entertainment System hooked up. I just loop the wire over the top of the shelf and the channels show up.
     
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    Get one coming? I see it shows out of stock now...
     
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    Not yet, I didn't order it when I said I was going to.
    Crap! Looks like they dropped the price by a couple bucks from this morning and now its out of stock here too!
     
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    Let us know how it works...yup, gooder price!
     
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    I only picked it up yesterday evening and hope to put it together today. Probably no posts until Mon. night.
     
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