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Have been installing for years and now the antenna is getting the spotlight again. The tv ads have been hammering us with the converter box and flashing rabbit ears with it. Well it isnt that easy as many viewers in North east indiana are finding out.I have been using for UHF the televes xg-43 and the performance is amazing. Also the winegard hd-1080 works well also. The new Winegard antennas look promising as well. They finally removed the long low band elements and and now only cover channels 7-51 for DTV. I installed in Downers grove, Il. A U/V antenna 2-69 type and to receive CBS-dt-3 I had to use a Wine gard pre-amp high input type . It worked very well. That low band dt-3 is moving to dt-12 . I believe this will be a major improvenent for Chgo. Wls is moving back to Vhf as well on dt-7. The televes out performs the 8-bow tie Channelmaster and the 8-bay Winegard in the test I ran last summer. I posted the results on another forum. I used a field strength meter for all testing same conditions and mast.Back in the dark ages of antennas we had a 12 bow tie antenna that looked the the C.M. 8 bow tie model but had 3db of higher gain. Someone please bring it back. This worked well to receive S.Bend from Chgo.area when the bear games were blacked out on channel 2. I have antennas stories that could last for hours and I dont want to bore you folks. I love that metal on he rooftops. It is like the cherry on an ice cream sundae. The co-ax cable I use is commscope rg-6 and for lower signal levels I use rg-11 to eleminate amplifiers in the system.