If you value your free time, just get your HDTV, pay the cable company for all the HD gear, and enjoy. If you are naturally cheap and have weekends to kill, try this. I’m 19-24 miles from all the OTA (over the air) stations in Hampton Roads, and I’ve got a near perfect DTV reception with 10-year-old rabbit ears I put in (not on) the attic. It gets me a signal, but I get signal loss enough to make it unwatchable. I just ordered a ‘best on the market’ antenna to replace it for $60. Sexy over the air HDTV, here I come. All I need now is CNBC over the air (or Vista Media Center Internet TV to carry CNBC) and a HDTV TiVo, and then Cox is out the door….
The antenna you linked to is a UHF antenna. It may not help much on 2-13 if there are channels on them. Then again, you could almost say anything outside the house is better than anything inside…but it depends. Good luck. We watch HD OTA with pre-amplified rabbit ears….IN THE BASEMENT! It works.
I’ve build myself antenna from a beer can http://diyfreetv.blogspot.com/2008/01/how-to-build-tv-antenna-from-beer-can.html
Works charming for 28 miles (Newmarket to Toronto) and some how for 70+ Newmarket to Buffalo