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Maybe this is the wrong name for external TV antennas receiving digital signals, but so be it.
I installed a ChannelMaster Omni 50+ antenna yesterday. We live approx 40 miles from the broadcast antennas located north of Detroit, and similar distance from those loccated outside Toledo, OH.
Installation included a 4G/5G filter, and an external amplifier. Antenna is positioned on a 5-foot mast strapped to our masonry fireplace chimney.
I don't have an outdoor antenna and have to use indoor ones. I use the flat paper types that I staple to the wall. They work well. You either get reception or you don't. The quality is the same whether it's indoor or outdoor.
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I tried one of the flat ones inside our house and got 3 channels only and 2 were pixelated. Outside on our travel trailer we have a roof-mounted round antenna, with a 12 volt power booster and it gets 23 channels, though a few get a bit pixelated in stormy weather.
Well, HDTV-capable antennas have been around long before man invented HDTV. In other words, all TV antennas are HDTV antennas. If you compare the best antenna on the planet with a coat hanger, as long as they send a strong enough signal to the TV, the picture is identical. But when the signal strength is insufficient with a coat hanger or flat paper type, then they don't work very well at all, and a better antenna is needed.
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