canadiancowboy1956 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

Read about it last night and built it today. Works great! Made mine with a strip of pine and some leftover suspended ceiling wire (strong like bull). Jumped the wires over each other at the crossings. Mounted it near a basement window in a house 24 miles southeast of Detroit in Canada. Pulled in 12 analogue and 15 digital - some of which are HD. Good Project!

bobsnackattack (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

can anyone assist me? i made the antenna in this video, to the exact specs, using the same materials. it looks exactly like his. i plugged it into my DTV set top box and did a channel search. it did not pick up any extra channels, and the signal strength improvement was negligible. i am not sure what the problem is. i tried different coax cables, and longer ones. i tried repositioning the antenna, and even put it in 2 windows on opposite sides of the apartment. still no joy. :/

swishseven (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

What HDTV Tuner do you reccomend?

swishseven (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

I built this only to lear that my "HDTV" (label on the TV) does not have a built-in tuner. I'm new to this. What external HDTV Tuner should I conisder? I don't have a lot of money. I've seen prices ranging from 150 to 400. Would a $150 box do the trick? Can I go cheaper? My TV is a Polaroid FLM-3201. Thank you.

lazydonovan (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

If you're near the US border (like in Vancouver), there are ATSC signals being transmitted and the major nets are doing their trials right now.

diggingforgold (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

FCC wants to free up the valuable frequencies that are currently used by old analog stations. US companies bid on freed up frequencies. It's all about re-allocating frequencies.

updowns511 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

Conventional analog TV uses a lot of band width that digital TV will free up for lots of other applications.

jdn74 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

For those of you who may live further from the TV station than the guy in this video, this antenna works even better if you mount a wire mesh or foil behind it and get it outside up in the air. This will make the antenna even more directional as well.

jdn74 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

You might consider a whats called a "folded dipole". Find out the frequency of the lowest channel that you need and then design the antenna based on that. Feed impedance is 300 ohms, so you'll still need a 300 to 75 ohm matching transformer (balun) just like the one used in the video above. Good luck.

Clockworkforest (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

"Since when is the government so concerned about the visual quality of our televised entertainment"TV is the one thing most culture pockets in the US have in common, people also think it is an accurate portrayal of the outside world so it helps them tell us what they want us to think and be aware of.