[mythtv-users] HDTV antenna quandry

Mark fairlane at springcom.com
Thu Apr 26 00:10:50 UTC 2007


Daniel Kristjansson wrote:

>The cost of making channel specific antennas is not great.
>But because they are marketed mostly to money-is-no-object
>consumers (local cable monopolies), they are not cheap. A
>channel specific Yagi is one of the simplest antennas you
>can make, just google for the formula if you are interested
>in making one. I've made these myself for 2.4 Ghz signals
>UHF and VHF signals, and the weaker the tolerances for UHF/VHF
>are easy enough that you will succeed on the first try if you
>make one yourself. Studying up on making an antenna will also
>help you understand how the antenna system will actually work,
>all those antennas become one antenna when you combine them.
>Also, if you make the antennas and one of your antennas has a
>side-lobe where another antenna is pointing, you change that
>antenna to move the side-lobe (but with channel specific yagis,
>you probably don't need to do this unless the channels are
>very close in frequency.)
>
>-- Daniel
>
>  
>
Where does one learn to build one?  Have any links or "googlese" I can 
search on?


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