Easier to install than most outdoor antennas, it shares the cabling and grounding already installed for your satellite dish. The box comes with everything you need (except a ladder!) Its built-in amplifier ensures the received signals will remain strong through long satellite cable runs. The included patch cables are only about 1 ft long, but that should be enough to hook it to your satellite receiver per the included instructions.

This is a multidirectional antenna, so ghosts can be a problem on analog broadcasts. If you have many trees in your neighborhood, the wind will sway the branches, shifting the ghosts on analog broadcasts and causing dropouts on digital broadcasts.

For obvious reasons, this antenna can't be mounted any higher than your satellite dish. If you're too far out, you may need a mast-mounted antenna instead to get high enough for clear signals.

If you hook it up per the instructions, you'll need to switch your satellite receiver to "TV" mode to tune to the local channels. If your TV has a composite and/or S-video input, you can just leave the receive in TV mode, but if it only has an RF input, you'll have to switch back to satellite mode to watch the satellite channels. You can avoid the hassle of switching back and forth with a specialized signal combiner such as a JoinTenna, but these can be hard to find.

A very good VHF and fair UHF antenna if you have a compatible satellite dish and don't want to pay the satellite company for free TV channels, but live just beyond the useful range of indoor antennas.

I live 30 miles from the TV transmitters in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area, and this antenna receives all but one of the local digital broadcasts, although dropouts are a problem. Analog broadcasts are good on VHF channels but a bit snowy on UHF channels. Due to the trees in my neighborhood, ghosts are a problem on several analog channels (both VHF and UHF).

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The only other TV antennas I've tried are indoor antennas (both amplified and unamplified), but the signal strength in my neighborhood is simply too weak for any indoor antenna.