Coat Hanger HDTV Antenna, how-to video

"JBDragon" wrote

It's diagonal aperture wavelength spectrum is exactly .00000000000001 of
the distance from the earth to the sun.

Does that convert into hectares per fortnight?

On Mar 23, 1:17*am, UCLAN wrote:
GMAN wrote:
But who the hell still has wire clothes hangers laying around anymore?

Me, and anyone who uses any of the cleaners in my area. They return the
cleaned clothes on hangars. Wire hangers. I have a closet full of them.

Moi aussi. Some are decades old.

On Mar 23, 7:45*am, "Kalarama" wrote:
"JBDragon" wrote

It's diagonal aperture wavelength spectrum is exactly .00000000000001 of
the distance from the earth to the sun.

Does that convert into hectares per fortnight?

No, furlongs per hogshead.

Per GMAN:
But who the hell still has wire clothes hangers laying around anymore?

We've got plenty.

My suspicion is that, left in a closet, they breed.
--
PeteCresswell

On Mar 22, 4:36*pm, TJ wrote:
Kalarama wrote:
-"Amazing how good it is"

-"Wow. I finished making mine a few days ago. I'm 40 miles from
the nearest
TV towers in Dallas and this antenna gets them all! It is
outstanding!"

-"This is great! It even works in our basement. Totally kicks
butt over the
rabbit ears"

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/762088/
coat_hanger_hdtv_antenna_better_...

That's pretty much the same one I was talking about in another
thread.
The one I saw had a plywood-and-foil reflector behind it, thus
improving
the directionality and therefore the gain.

TJ

So it's a Channel Master 4221 - home made. Outside of $36, why bother?

G²

wrote:

So it's a Channel Master 4221 - home made. Outside of $36, why bother?


How sad.

If you have to ask, you'd never understand.

TJ

On Mar 25, 5:38*am, TJ wrote:
wrote:

So it's a Channel Master 4221 - home made. Outside of $36, why
bother?

How sad.

If you have to ask, you'd never understand.

TJ

I built this

http://haskey.com/johnh/organ/organ.html

I also did the analog section and servo of this machine.

http://www.telecine.com/nova.html

I understand

G²

On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 13:58:47 -0400, "Kalarama"
wrote:

-"Amazing how good it is"

-"Wow. I finished making mine a few days ago. I'm 40 miles from the nearest
TV towers in Dallas and this antenna gets them all! It is outstanding!"

-"This is great! It even works in our basement. Totally kicks butt over the
rabbit ears"

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/762088...ght_ amazing/


I subscribe to cable and get some local stations with the TV.
The other stations would be nice, but there is only one place to plug
the CATV connection. It is not worth getting a splitter box.

On Mar 22, 12:58*pm, "Kalarama" wrote:
-"Amazing how good it is"

-"Wow. I finished making mine a few days ago. I'm 40 miles from the nearest
TV towers in Dallas and this antenna gets them all! It is outstanding!"

-"This is great! It even works in our basement. Totally kicks butt over the
rabbit ears"

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/762088...ntenna_better_...

Have many people here built one of these? If so, how well did it work
and how close are you to the broadcast towers?

Thanks!

On Apr 3, 9:59*am, swangdb wrote:
On Mar 22, 12:58*pm, "Kalarama" wrote:

-"Amazing how good it is"

-"Wow. I finished making mine a few days ago. I'm 40 miles from the nearest
TV towers in Dallas and this antenna gets them all! It is outstanding!"

-"This is great! It even works in our basement. Totally kicks butt over the
rabbit ears"

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/762088...ntenna_better_...

Have many people here built one of these? *If so, how well did it work
and how close are you to the broadcast towers?

Thanks!

That was a cool video. I think I might try building one of my own.
So far the best results I've gotten on different tv''s throughout the
house are with old rabbit ears attached to a 300-to-75ohm transformer
plugged into the back of the zenith dtt901 converters.