Winegard antenna is so square

Sure it's square, but apparently it works too. The Winegard Square Shooter (SS) antenna just received a patent today from the U.S. Patent Office. The SS comes in two models, the 1000, which is passive and the amplified 2000 version.

The Square Shooter was apparently designed to receive reflected over the air signals, indicating to us that you don't need to point the antenna at your broadcast source. This would come in handy for metropolitan areas where tall buildings interfere with line of sight transmissions. At only 15-inches square, Winegard indicates that the SS-2000 can pull DTV signals in from 50 miles away.

Not only is the range impressive, but we were getting tired of looking at all of those round dish-style antennas anyway. We're wondering if the Hack-A-Day crowd could use this to beat the recent record-breaking long-range WiFi burst at defcon. Any takers?