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Originally Posted by Ellwoodrick
My wife and I have a home in the Northern end on the Marion County side. I am looking at tiring an Antenna with amp in the Attic. Has anyone had any luck with that?
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If you are pointing that at Orlando stations, they would be 60+ miles straight line distance. Might push the limits.
That said I live in DeSoto, Fenny area, and put a large (8 foot) Long Range UHF- HDTV 91 Element Yagi Antenna (Amazon) in my attic and paired it with a Winegard LNA-200 Boost XT HDTV Preamplifier (Amazon). I get all the channels the original poster does.
The large Yagi antenna has the best UHF gain going, which are almost all of the stations you want to watch. Also, I connected the pre-amp once the cable exits the attic and goes into my garage. I was concerned that mounting it on the antenna itself in the attic would fry it in the summer with 130+ degree heat. Doing it that way doesn't appear to have any detrimental effects on signal strength. 3+ bars out of 5 on almost every channel.
I'm sure you would get something with my type of set up, though some stations might fade during storms. Very important, you need to have as little immediately between you and your direction to the transmitters as possible. You already have the attic roof to go through. A tree or another house/rest of your house will have an impact. Also, can't have a foil barrier in your attic.
Use an internet site like antennaweb.org to get the direction to point your antenna from your address, and to let you know what you might expect as far as reception.
Good luck! Between my antenna and a few internet services like Netflix and Amazon, and all of the free stuff on Roku, I have plenty to watch. And way less than cable/satellite.