Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I visited several websites that map broadcast towers and your chances of receiving a signal from them. Most of them said I would receive marginal or no signal from the towers 41 miles away in Philadelphia. They also told me which direction I needed to point my antenna. I took a chance and bought this antenna anyway, based on the reviews. I installed it on my roof, grounded it appropriately, ran cable down to my TV, plugged it in and every channel from those towers came in crystal clear with no distortion. Now I have a tip for you. (Probably this is the reason for some of the negative reviews). If you are planning to use a splitter for multiple TVs, DO NOT FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS that come with the antenna. The power adapter must be installed in line BETWEEN the antenna and the splitter, not at the TV set as the instructions tell you. I figured that out after quite a bit of head scratching, thinking I had bad cable, bad splitter, bad karma, thinking I had made a terrible mistake in buying this, several trips up onto the roof to needlessly reposition the antenna, wondering why I had crystal clear signal the night before when I tested it on one TV, and had crappy to nonexistent signal the next day when I completed the wiring. Was it the clouds? Then the light bulb went off and viola... all is well. Crystal clear HD from the reportedly weakest signal channel. My old analog TV looks great too. (You will need to buy a digital to analog adapter for that). Full disclosure: I live on a hill. I'm sure that helps.