Quite literally… this is what I have:
Except I didn’t buy mine, I found it in the bottom of my “box-o-electronic-crap”. I’m 90% sure it came with my magnovox 19" tv I bought about 9 years ago (being a pack rat > *). Had I not had one I think I would have tried a coat hanger and still probably would have got at least some of the HD channels with it.
That could be. If he’s downtown he might be dealing with a lot more multipath issues than I am where all my neighbors houses are about the same height.