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Join Date: May 2015
Location: Stafford, Texas
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I built an antenna outta junk parts as per plans off the intarwebs.
Just to pass the time and distract myself from stressing a serious situation. Just need a 300 ohm to 75 ohm balum and it's ready to try. Gonna run it into an old Comcast RF amp into my old tv ![]() Login or Register to Remove Ads |
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Location: Stafford, Texas
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Hope this works better than my Teriyaki chicken did.
Worst meal I've ever cooked. And I followed the recipe perfectly. |
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Join Date: May 2015
Location: Stafford, Texas
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Holy crap this antenna REALLY works!
![]() I got channels I couldn't get before. And some that were 'fringe' are now solid reception. Check out the intarwebs for this one.... If your a cord cutter... Login or Register to Remove Ads |
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Squamish B.C Canada
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Why not if you don't need/want cable or a dish. You can't argue with the price.
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Join Date: May 2015
Location: Stafford, Texas
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Wow! Coincidence!
I just decided to modify the very antenna haphazardly this very night ![]() Anywho. What's funny is this thing does great for general uhf work but my favorite channel in the whole wide airwaves is vhf according to the reference material I've found. Aka the ant is tuned for about 300 mhz and the fav channel is much lower. So... I decided to, without doing any wavelength calculations, to increase the reflector and whisker size over 50%. Considering I'm an e-tech and have lotsa ham radio experience I should be totally ashamed... But I'm not. I'm just a lazy tinker :-p Anywho. Ant is now doing great on my fav channel and the rest down low but I've lost 2 of the weaker ones up high. I'm gonna run it as is for a day or two then trim down the whiskers an inch at a time to see if I can find a happy medium. I've saved the old reflectors and whiskers (bow ties) so I can revert back to original, properly tuned, instantly. Yes the ant is quite directional 5th. But the broadcast ant farm is clustered southeast of me so i can just aim once and pretty much go except for a couple few stations. And directionality is an understatement ![]() This thing is more accurate than a compass once I pulled up google maps of the ant broadcast towers in relation to my house. It's pretty much dead on just by trial and error. Within a few degrees of South East. Last edited by spldart; 08-18-2015 at 11:20 PM. |
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Senior Member
Join Date: May 2015
Location: Stafford, Texas
Posts: 604
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Thinking of trying a yagi next
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