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Homemeade TV antenna
"1D10T" wrote in
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"geoff" wrote in message
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1D10T wrote:
I built this antenna
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joearno...93845/sizes/l/
by watching a youtube video proclaiming it to be as good or better
than most commercially available set-top units. It does fine - I get
as many channels as a friend's $79 RCA antenna with an amplifier.
The problem is that it's too directional and I'd like more 'reach'
for some transmitters that are about 50 miles away. One channel I
want is only fair for analog, but NG for the digital channels they
provide. Would an amplifier help there? I'm a raw newbie in this
area and would sure appreciate any advice or
suggestions. I'd like the satisfaction of doing this myself. Is
there such a thing as paralleling two of them?
Well it really doesn't quite 'do fine' then. At least not for what
you want.
Would the $79 antenna do what you want ?
Or you could make up two antennae, and buy or make a combiner so you
could point each at each source.
Thanks Geoff
I learned yesterday that the one channel I want is only transmitting
digitally at 50% power until 6/12. So... that means my $4 antenna *is*
as good as the $79 one - it doesn't get Channel 7 either. I am going
to make another as you suggest. BTW - the $79 one doesn't get 2
channels that I do, and I've yet to add a 28db amplifier. What started
me on this is that I refuse to pay $40+ for a satellite system that
won't provide locals. Thanks again.
Joe Arnold
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