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Position and set up of the antenna are important. Know what the RF carriers of your station are. They are probably all UHF, but if any are VHF you will want to set the length of the telescoping rods length to the approx wavelength of the center freq of the weakest receivable carrier and face the broad side of the ant at it. If no VHF is receivable you should contract the rods and mostly ignore them...The loop grabs almost all the UHF signal and the rods when fully contracted are closest to UHF wavelengths. Face the broad side of the loop at the weakest UHF carrier your likely to receive.
Most indoor UHF/VHF ants use loops for UHF and loops are worse than bowties for UHF so if you can find or make a bowtie you'll be better off...If you can get metal cookie tray or a sheet of aluminum foil to act as a reflector and maybe a second bowtie ant you can build one of the better indoor/outdoor UHF ants available. The reflector when placed the correct wavelength fraction away from the bowtie will roughly double the signal from the direction the antenna is pointing.
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