Good luck with that powered antenna, I think you will need it. I never had any. I moved my antenna location to the attic where it works fine. I've used the Magnum type as well as yagi's (which I still have) and a bunch of others and ended up using a small circular type omni in place of the Magnum (which was used as a directional antenna - in omni not so good). It was very cheap on Amazon. My stations are about 50 miles or less from my house with some very small hills.