I live in the Cleveland area, and travel frequently to the the Greater Toronto Area by way of Buffalo, NY. In other words, I drive through several larger areas over a 250-300 mile trip. My Monster has never let me down. I have one main station (91.9) that works almost all of the time. My backups (88.3 & 106.7) kick in most of the other time. The only times I remember having issues getting reception were in Chicago and Dallas. By the way, this is my second cable of this kind. The first one worked awesome for me for 5 years (2005-2010) and finally gave up. When it came time to replace it, I didn't think twice about replacing it with the same exact thing. For the roughly $30 that it's being sold for, you can't go wrong.