[Antennas] Homemade HD Antenna

[Bob Nielsen]

It's robust once the signal is above a threshold and non-existent  
below that (give or take a few dB)

There are many variables and some consumers who haven't yet converted  
to digital will be in for surprises.  I'm only about 10 miles from 3  
of the Seattle towers and if it weren't for trees, I could see them  
from my roof.  Reception of one of those stations is very critical as  
to where I locate the antenna.   A few feet makes a difference and I  
have tried both a 4-bay bow tie and a UHF/VHF antenna with a corner  
reflector for UHF, as well as different receivers/tuners.  The  
location where things are good for that station isn't so hot for some  
of the others.  Fortunately I can get that one via Directv so I  
picked a location which was conventient and worked satisfactorily for  
most of the other stations.  Hills are a factor for a few stations  
which I have given up on.  Maybe I'll try again after some of them  
change frequency in June (hopefully it won't get postponed again).

Bob. N7XY

On Mar 16, 2009, at 2:02 PM, icra at galaxynet.com wrote:

>> It's quite amazing that tossing this in the corner behind the TV
>> gives a
>> good picture.  I guess that's a testament to how robust digital TV
>> is!
>>
> I would never say that digital broadcast TV is robust...in fact, in  
> my case, I would say it sucks
>
> At about 60 miles to the broadcast sites, I get fairly good analog  
> signal on all the 'local' stations
>
> As soon as I switch to the DTV converter, I loose about a third of  
> the stations completely and
> another third are 50-50 at best.........not good at all in my book
>
> Must admit that I do get several new 'channels'....too bad they are  
> nothing that I will ever want
> to watch
>
> Mel
> N7OKL
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