<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 7:44 PM, Michael Lynch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lynchmv@gmail.com" target="_blank">lynchmv@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div>On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Richard Shaw <<a href="mailto:hobbes1069@gmail.com" target="_blank">hobbes1069@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> It depends on what your willing to "look at" everyday in an indoor antenna.<br>
> I have an Antennas Direct DB2[1] and it works very well but may be<br>
> considered "ugly" for indoor use, it's also somewhat directional so it would<br>
> probably be a good idea to go to antennaweb[2] and see what directions your<br>
> signals will be coming from.<br>
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> Richard<br>
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> [1] <a href="http://www.antennasdirect.com/DB2_Indoor_antenna.html" target="_blank">http://www.antennasdirect.com/DB2_Indoor_antenna.html</a><br>
> [2] <a href="http://www.antennaweb.org/aw/welcome.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.antennaweb.org/aw/welcome.aspx</a><br>
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</div>Personally I have had great success with the 'stick' (think boom box)<br>
antenna that came with my Pinnacle USB tuner for OTA reception.<br>
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That being said, I've still got this on my todo list:<br>
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWQhlmJTMzw" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWQhlmJTMzw</a><br>
<div><div></div><br></div></blockquote></div><br>Probable bad netiquette to re-visit a year-old thread, but I just wanted to endorse the YouTube video cited, which shows in details how to build an HD antenna using coat hanger wire. I had all of the parts on-hand, and was able to build the antenna in a single morning. I mounted the antenna inside the house and connected it to the ATSC input of my Hauppauge HVR-1600 card, and ran a channel scan as recommended on <a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Hauppauge_HVR-1600">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Hauppauge_HVR-1600</a>. The card was able to find all 12 virtual channels predicted by <a href="http://antennaweb.org">antennaweb.org</a>, including one that's 34.1 miles away that I didn't really expect to work.<br>
<br>Having said that, this is definitely an antenna you don't want to be highly visible. My ultimate goal is to run coax to my attic and put the antenna up there, but for now it's in an inconspicuous place in my wife's office (inconspicuous to me, anyway, since I'm rarely in there ... 8^)<br clear="all">
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