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Originally Posted by villagetinker
Do a search for Tom the AV guy, he seems to be the most knowledgeable on antenna installations. If you are looking as a DIY, I personally do not do attics especially with blown in insulation, but if you are going DIY, I would stick to the attic area over the garage, and cross your fingers to see if you get reception.
IMHO, I would get a nice long range (80 miles or so) antenna, a suitable amplifier, and set it up on a ladder outside and see if it works. This will save you a lot of additional work if it does not work.
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We did the antenna thing a few years back up in MN. Satellite TV was getting waaay too expensive and my one experience with Charter Cable TV was atrocious, so we decided to cut the cord. Or cords. we bought an outside antenna at the local Fleet Farm and proceeded to erect it at one end of our four-bedroom rambler. Looked pretty retro--something like a streamlined skeleton with all those ribs and it was BIG. Maybe 6 feet from one end to the other and a good three feet wide. I bought a couple of 8' steel pipes, connected them together and with the pole that came with the antenna the whole thing was may 25' in the air total. Attracted quite a crowd installing it: the older folks recognized it right away but a lot of the youngsters had no idea what it was. One kid, maybe 8, asked if I was installing radar.
Anyway, it worked great. $99 and an afternoon's worth of work installing the thing and stringing wires pulled in stations from as far as 80 miles away (over 100 in the right conditions) with definition and clarity as good or better than my former satellite reception, and the internet with Amazon Prime gave me all the non-local TV I wanted. We cut our total bill by well over half.