[mythtv-users] HDTV antenna quandry

Rich Osman rich at osman.com
Thu Apr 26 03:23:57 UTC 2007


Thus spake Mark <fairlane at springcom.com>:

> 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

<< Deletia >>

>> 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
>>

The best source of construction data IMNSHO are amateur radio  
operators.  The articles usually rely on readily available materials,  
etc. The down side is that most of the artilces are tailed to the ham  
bands.  There are several sites with online dimension calclators;  
enter the center frequency of the channel and get the dimensions back,  
like this:

http://www.dxzone.com/cgi-bin/dir/jump2.cgi?ID=11183

Googlese: "VHF Yagi construction"

here's a link page

http://www.dxzone.com/catalog/Antennas/Yagi/

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