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G-squared wrote:

I found this a while back in HDTV Magazine. Definitely check 'page 2
rev 2'

http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~wn17/



Very cool!!

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"Howard Lester" wrote:

Partly right. A lesser quality antenna high and in the clear outside will
generally outperform a better one indoors at ground level. The experimenter
in me would try making a dipole antenna out of the end of the coax.

I live in an apartment complex and it difficult for me
to mount an outside antenna..... I'm not handy...don't
have any tools.... no mast to mount it to.

What I need is some kind of "flexible" antenna that can
be hung up for a tree or even mounted upside a
wall..... then taken down and rolled up when moving

I know ham radio operators on field day often take a
bow an arrow and shoot an antenna wire up into a tree
and then can easily roll it back up when done.

Does anything like this exist for HDTV for someone like
me? Or can I just MAKE one for 100 feet of coax? Maybe
make this dipole? Or just strip off a few feet to
expose bare wire?

I'm just playing around for now..experimenting...if I
need to buy another real antenna I will but not now

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On Thu, 06 Mar 2008 10:09:58 -0600, me wrote:

Does anything like this exist for HDTV for someone like me? Or can I
just MAKE one for 100 feet of coax? Maybe make this dipole? Or just
strip off a few feet to expose bare wire?

When I visited my cousin, I was surprised to see that she could get TV
reception with her antenna connected to a sat dish, It wasn't real good,
but it was there. Redoing her setup and hooking up a cheap STB antenna in
front of the window gave here excellent ATSC reception. Might try touching
the coax to a metal window frame on the side towards the stations if you
don't want to sprung for a $2 bowtie antenna.

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On Mar 6, 5:08*am, "Howard Lester" wrote:
"G-squared" * wrote
I found this a while back in HDTV Magazine. Definitely check
'page 2
rev 2'
http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~wn17/

THAT *is hysterical, and incredibly ingenious. It probably works a
little
better than a dipole, huh? * ;-)

I wonder if that'd qualify as an acceptable rooftop tv antenna in a
subdivision ruled by a homeowner's association (per the FCC ruling
years
ago). *Put a rotator on it and....

I suspect you'd have a _real_ bad time in a storm but if you think
about it, one of those perforated metal commercial trash cans would be
as good electrically but being partly open would be far less of a wind
load. Better yet, a welded wire 'basket' could be less ugly and even
less wind load.

GG

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Howard Lester wrote:
"G-squared" wrote

I found this a while back in HDTV Magazine. Definitely check 'page 2
rev 2'

http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~wn17/

THAT is hysterical, and incredibly ingenious. It probably works a little
better than a dipole, huh? ;-)

I wonder if that'd qualify as an acceptable rooftop tv antenna in a
subdivision ruled by a homeowner's association (per the FCC ruling years
ago). Put a rotator on it and....




You don't tell the HOA it's a TV antenna, you tell the HOA it's a
squirrel trap and let the HOA think you're doing the whole neighborhood
a favor.

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"Jer" wrote

You don't tell the HOA it's a TV antenna, you tell the HOA it's a squirrel
trap and let the HOA think you're doing the whole neighborhood a favor.

Or paint it orange and call it a wind sock...