You have to be almost within "line of sight" for a set of rabbit ears to work. It's more about signal to noise ratio rather than signal strength. Similar to clearly hearing a person talk from across a large still quiet room. V.s you can't hear the person beside you in a noisy bar. Rabbit ears are close to the electronic noise in the house and too low to obtain clean strong signal. A winegard http://www.winegard.com/offair/pdf/HD7694P.pdf HD7694P is a short and narrow antenna with high gain in a very narrow and short package which will reduce wind loading. A 30ft tower with a set on hinges on the bottom will work fine and save tower climbing. The rotor should sit inside the tower and the pipe extend through a "bushing" at the top of the tower. This eliminates side load on the rotor motor. A low powered amp is required.Same goes for an FM trap in noisy areas. Certainly low loss rg-6 or rg-11 cable is required. rg-8 is cheap lossy garbage. Silicone the cable ends water tight after connecting. Water inside a cable absorbs signal.
I have a maxed out antenna system here with currently only an analog tuner for the local Canadian stations for the next 4yrs..There is now more noise than signal due a lots of signal + noise gain and very few losses. Due "noise" from digital TV and the new FM radio tower 3 blocks away. This system won't bring in more than 5 local analog stations now. It used to bring in over a dozen. Next step is a HD HDMI equipped fta box with the terrestrial tuner for digital HD TV . Problem the nearest Canadian digital signal is 70 miles over land. The nearest US digital signals is 60 to 90miles over the lake plus 10 to 50 miles more land. It should still be better than the current garbled signals. Things should improve next month when the US analog channels go down. And when the local transmitter sites go digital.
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