[DavGoodlin]

One antenna configuration I highly recommend is a 4-bay bowtie. Its nothing new and one can be built using 1"x2" screen or chicken wire. This is an old UHF design and measures about 20" wide, 30" high and 6" deep. It fits in a closet real well and it has a reasonable gain on highband VHF despite its smaller wavelength dimensions. It beats most of the other stuff I have tried, especially rabbit ear-loop combos, by a long shot. Outside, its excellent.

I have seen the Clearcast unit advertised in the paper here also and my first thought is how it is "electrically small" for our VHF channels 8 and 10, with half wavelengths of about 31 and 29 inches respectively.

If you don't have any metal (like refrigerators) in your signal path, a closet is the only way to hide it. Second, if you do not have any obscenely powerful FM stations nearby, one of those 10dB "silver box" boosters from the hardware store may make the difference between getting a steady reliable signal. Connect close to the antenna with a 30" piece of coax from the matching transofrmer and you could run about 50 feet of coax to the TV.

BTW, RTV has been running paid programming in the early AM and may be on the way out. MeTV, This and Antenna TV seem to be getting some fun shows, at least when I'm able to watch.