Modern TV Antenna and interference?

[Jeffs]

I had put my five year old rabbit ears on my amplifier and seems it's well done. Started shopping for a new TV antenna, reading there are ones that claim to have 10X the signal range, going to hundreds of miles. As little as l like broadcast TV, it's still nice to have - to keep my better half happy I need to pay for PBS.
More important is keeping RFI to a minimum... and don't even know if the frequency used now makes a difference. Have plenty of tubes in various stages. Many alligator clip pairs to keep looking for most quiet background.
All TV antennae have amps built in?
Cheers!

 

[AllenB]

All TV antennae have amps built in?

No. Many VHF installations didn't use amplifiers. Since then, many UHF installations have separate masthead amplifiers with power fed along the cable.

 

[jackinnj]

The question becomes -- how far are you from the transmitting antenna -- most of the terrestrial TV broadcasting is now well higher than the 3 meter band where it was previously located so a simple UHF antenna bought at Best Buy will do the trick.

For FM broadcast, 88-108MHz -- a yagi antenna is directional and will give great results...you can also DIY a low noise amplifier, or buy one from the usual suspects.

 

[Osvaldo de Banfield]

The 10X gain may be fantaciuos. As long as the amplifier amplfies signal and noise; and adds noise, not always is better solution. Yagis are good as is said above.

 

[Andersonix]

https://www.tvfool.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=66&Itemid=1

I haven't checked this site for years but it tells you which TV stations to expect in your area, and what band they're on.