Best Roof Mounted FM Antenna


I am considering buying a Ron Smith Aerials outdoor antenna and heard that they are the best on the market. Is this a good choice? Since this is directional, would it be necessary to use a rotor? Thanks.
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I have a roof mounted antenna in my attic crawl space. It is just a TV antenna. For your information, I believe the FM band is between VHF TV channels 6 and 7. Because of this, I have found TV antennas work fine and the fancy FM stuff is not worth the big $$$ expense IMO. ---- The cable TV comes into my house and up into the attic crawl scace. It splits there into multiple cables and down into each room. So all I did was cut the coax cable going to the room with my tuner and connected it to the antenna. The Tuner is just plugged into the cable TV wall socket. Instant great FM. ---- Luckly I live south of Washington DC, so my antenna pointed north gets all the Washington, Baltimore, and surrounding Maryland/Virginia stations with no rotor.
I have one of those $20 Radio Shack roof FM antennas that I've had since 1980. They do work very well !! I do not currently use it because the TV antenna allows me to use a TV in that room as well. There are lots of stations around DC even without cable.