I rec the email from Dish in mid April, scheduled an install on 4/23, the antenna works well for my locals (Houston DMA), I"m about 35 miles from the tower array, relatively flat ground near the Texas Gulf Coast. I was skeptical, the antenna is small (I didn't write the model # down) compared to the one I had set up about 13 years ago. The installer used the pole I had in the ground (it's a galvanized top fence rail), ran the cable, pointed the antenna using the app on his phone, scanned the locals and I get all of them. I haven't noticed any dropouts in what I"ve recorded or while watching live. I'm still subscribed to the locals thru Dish, figger on dropping those during the summer, just using the ota to record. The dongle was the 2 tuner that Dish supplied, and there was no cost, just as the email said. My ultimate goal is to acquire a 4 tuner ota hd dvr later this year, cancel Dish when the contract is up early January 2020, supplement the locals (prob about 80% of our recordings) with Netflix in addition to Prime & Hulu that we use now.