I heard a engineering school did tests and came up with the conclusion it
looks like a aerial but that was as far as it got. Then I told this to a
owner that started & owned a aerial manufacturing company, who agreed.


Now personally I don't give too ****s what the out come is, but I wonder who
other people talk too before that make a issue of nothing



"Jerry G." wrote in message
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The basic TV rabbit ears are a simple 300 ohm dual dipole antenna. Look
up dipole antennas and you should have some explanations. A dual dipole
antenna is based on the simple single dipole antenna. The 2 dipoles work
in a parallel type of operation to accommodate having a balanced type of
antenna, to match to the 300 ohms.

If you were to add on a 300 ohm to 75 ohm converter, then you can use a
single dipole antenna (single rod type antenna that most of the newer
sets are using for local indoor use). The TV sets that have the single
dipole antenna have the their RF entry in the 75 ohm impedance design.

On the rabbit ears, each dipole is adjustable (length and angle) to
compensate for frequency, reflections, and directivity.

Many of the manufactures of rabbit ears added on traps, and other gadget
type options to make these more adjustable. Many of these add-ons
worsened the rabbit ear performance, and or made them more complicated
to use.

Most of the sites you will find on the web deal with armature radio. The
impedance for communications equipment 50 ohms (52 ohms) by standard.

Antenna Basics:
http://www.electronics-tutorials.com...nna-basics.htm

Antenna Calculator & Information:
http://www.csgnetwork.com/antennaedcalc.html


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"Eric" wrote in message
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Does anybody know of a technical report of the "indoor aerial" I was
told a
few years ago the there is no resemblance between the rabbits ears and
aerial theory, just I have a few people who want to argue the point, and
hoping there might be a URL around that might show I'm right or partly
right.







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