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Thicker coax has less loss. That would be RG6. Twin lead when new, and not wet, has low loss, but it doesn't age well.
As for antennas, Radio Shack's are pretty decent.
As for the old antenna, if it's a Yagi, those "want to work" despite bent elements and such. You might be able to "restore" it, but go easy bending them back. The aluminium rods can bust off if they got bent more than 10 or 20 degrees.
We have an older deep fringe VHF only antenna on the roof. It feeds several TV sets thruout the house via splitters. But we are only 14 miles from the Empire State Building of NYC, line of site, and definately not in a fringe area. Once, when I worked at the old RCA Smirnoff R&D Lab, we measured the signal strength of the NBC station (channel 4) and it was 27000 microvolts.
We won't pay for cable or satellite either.
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