On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:46:28 -0400, "John Gilmer"
wrote:


Also, I note that "they" market HDTV antennas that are about the size of a
book. Do these things work? What's inside them?

One thing that has not been mentioned is most of the small HDTV
antennas (at least the ones I have seen) include an RF amplifier. W/o
the amplifier these antennas' performance is abysmal.