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Message: [QUOTE="curt_dawg2000, post: 32217, member: 3998"]Got to agreeI have been playing a lot of with antennas over the years. The big antennas do pick up better with gain on the close stations. On good nites I can step a pair of rabbit ears just outside my room on the ground and pick up statoins up to 100 miles away. I can even use aluminuma foil to do the same by making it a bow tie. So antennas with a distance rating a 5 to 15 miles can sometimes be just as good as one rated 100 miles. All antenna really is, is something to that can caugh the singal that is already there if the signal is not there the antenna will not be available to caugh it even if the station is only 25 miles away. If you live in a metal buiding will not be able to get the recption that  you would get if you  live in a house made of wood siding or buck.[/QUOTE]