Some times our Winegard Crank up would only pull in a couple of channels
So I went down to an ACE Hardware in the closest town and bought a Outdoor TV antenna for $40 or so (it has been a while...IIRC 2011)
Also bought a 5' section of pipe 1" DIA
*stowed it in basement compartment of 5vr. would just fit side to side
Attached the antenna to top of pipe ...connected a length of coax and mounted the pipe in the Flag Buddy Mounts I had on my Ladder
Pointed front of antenna towards the Tower as depicted on the 'antennaweb.org' site (gives direction/distance/channels available info)
Connected the coax to the 'cable' input on rear of 5vr
Changed BOMB to Cable (turned booster off cause not using the OEM antenna) and Auto Scanned for channels
Picked up roughly 12 channels...10 more then Crank up pulled in
I now use that same antenna on Two 10' pipes at my S&B
roughly 25 channels (that we watch) for Free
and roughly 10 others that we deleted
