I did my comparison test here in King George VA with my antenna mount about 12-feet in the air attached to the side of my OFF-ROAD POPUP antenna.
King George is almost located right in the cent of Richmond Va and Washington DC HDTV Towers being 50-60 miles apart...
The Richmond Towers are for the most part all in the same location where as the Washington DC towers are spread apart many miles on the East and west side of the town.
I used the BATWING with the added dipoles and the JACK antenna both powered by the same 12VDC going up the RG cable from the Antenna Panel inside my POPUP trailer...
This was all done with just being able to pick the HDTV channels with no logging in of signal strength readings...
Both antenna picked up all of the transmitting HDTV Digital frequencies. i.e. I scanned in all of the same digital transmiter frequencies on my VIZIO HDTV set.
The problems I encountered was I had to move the KING antenna more precisely to zero in on the transmitted HDTV signals than I did with the BATWING antenna.... Once tuned in they looked the same quality on my VIZIO HDTV set.
I did not have to move the BATWING antenna around to pick up all of the transmitter station. I did have to find the good center position to do this however. I had problems with my CBS station which is the one Ilike to watch the most here. I could zero in on the CBS tower but would lose some of the others. I finally found the happy medium spot where all them worked with one position setting. I also noted that when using the JACK antenna overhead aircraft would sometimes give me pixel break-up in the received signal reception. Never seen any of that with the BATWING antenna.
All of this simple testing made the BATWING the winner for me haha
I now use the JACK antenna here on my house pointing towards Charlotsville and the BATWING Antenna on my off-road popup trailer...
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Actually the best reception I got was using a different 8-bowtie antenna panel but I am sure it would not survive all of the putting up and taking down so it lives on the peak of my house here in King George. This $60 dollar antenna has two banks where you can point to different directions and it really works great pointing towards Washington DC to pick the wide spread of HDTV towers on both side of the local town. I am picking up a good 80 plus OTA TV signal free to the public doing this... All in high def TV reception...
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My plan B for when the local cable company goes down...
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