[kwlug-disc] Home made indoor TV Antenna

[unsolicited]

Careful with that - one of the things I repeatedly saw in my reading is 
that CKCO is so strong it overwhelms everything else. Amplification will 
only make it worse.

Also from my reading, there are really only two directions that matter 
here, towards the CN tower, and towards Buffalo. So I saw two approaches 
- dual antennas combined together, one pointed each way, and a single 
antenna pointed in the middle - level of success seemed to depend upon 
one's elevation.

I also seemed to get the sense that an internal antenna (outside sized) 
in the garage or attic got many as much as they were going to get. You 
can't catch a signal not there, and getting a better signal of what you 
already get sufficiently well doesn't buy you anything. (Except 
something else to maintain that gets weathered.)

What you (we) really need is some friend who has already done this all - 
so we can evaluate just what all is really needed, and how expensive it 
is/n't, to be able to decide if it has that much value for us.

Andrew K. - you lurking around? You know this stuff better than anyone 
else here, as far as I've been able to see.

Any good links, info, insight, for Khalid?


On 14-03-14 11:54 AM, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
> So, I created this one with an 8 inch outer rim, without a matching
> transformer.
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIpGUb5wsNg
>
> It picks the same channels (Global HD ch6-1, Global SD ch6-2, CKCO HD
> ch13-1). That is when it is facing east-ish. If it faces south, then TVO
> (ch28-1) can be picked but poorly, and intermittently.
>
> This confirms unsolicited's findings.
>
> Next on to amplified antennas.
>
>
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