I bought a satellite system at a Circuit City or something like that around 2000 for $99(installed it myself) and for a penny more got an amplified TV top antenna for picking up local stations. I think its a "TERK" brand. It plugs in for the amplification, and has a horizontal, square figure 8 that will rotate horizontally. It doesn't extend or anything
In Nashville where I lived then there was no shortage of local stations, but here in the Oklahoma boonies it's rather limited. I mostly pick up a PBS relay station which for the most part works fine for me, hek, with the numerous stations I got in TN that's where it would usually wind up anyway.
I used a maybe 20' coax extension I'd picked up somewhere and moved it up in the attic and it does fairly well. I can pick up network stations 100 miles away when I want to, and since the HDTV came out I use a converter box too, and even ran another coax cable to the back room where I made a computer breakdown/work room, and put another old TV up in a corner, the only drawback with that one is I've gotta come up front and change channels on the converter box when I want to change channels back there.
There's days when I pick up stations 150 miles away
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