One has an indoor digital antenna , the other has an outdoor digital antenna … both work about the same - iffy
Depends on the weather , surrounding trees , traffic etc . And have to regularly rescan at least once a month bc channels drop.
Wouldn’t try to record anything since so much screws with reception but on the whole I get enough channels to watch on a daily basis

I bet this doesn’t answer your question



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The signal is weak no matter where I move the indoor antenna or how many times I scan. It only picks up the PBS stations out of DC/Md, but they freeze up a lot. Oh, and one home shopping channel that always seems to come in crystal clear.
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The tv is a FireTV and the wifi here is also iffy (and it's a hotspot/monthly data limit), so I don't watch much TV. YouTube works great on the iPad, though. It's weird because it uses the same dang wifi so ???

The original is what I use in the garage. Gets more channels than I need to watch football.

This is the one I built for the house.
https://web.archive.org/web/20110518064934/http://clients.teksavvy.com:80/~nickm/gh_n_uV/gh10n_6V9_14u65_r.html

If you can find nikiml's Antenna Pages somewhere ( Nikolay Mladenov ), they're excellent plans. The wayback link above is not as good as his original site, but hover over each line and it shows dimensions.

and I get the Chicago channels crystal clear
and I'm about 50 miles northwest. No DVR though.

The only thing I ever watch on broadcast TV is sports - baseball, football and auto racing - so just having an antenna works out well for me.