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Great performing Yagi style antenna. Bend the wires into Vs with 7-inch 1778- centimeter sides and a 3-inch 762-centimeter gap between the two legs of the V Attach the wires to the board Attach the wire Vs to the board with screws and washers using a screwdriver.
Make a High Performance TV Antenna From a Satellite Dish and a Few Parts.
How to make tv antennas. Going from left to right with the board laying horizontally mark lines at the 2 inch 508 cm mark the 725 inch 1842 cm mark the 125 inch 3175 cm mark and the 1775 inch 4509 cm mark. Use a marker or a pencil. Mark 2 dots on each line that are evenly spaced.
In order to build one of these you need to have four pieces of foam core board or cardboard. Also you need one sheet of aluminum foil. Also you will need hot glue PVA glue and a stapler.
Certainly you will make sense of all of these ingredients. This is a pretty simple TV antenna to make. Cut 8 pieces of copper wire that are each 17 inches 43 cm.
Get 12-gauge uninsulated copper wire to make your antenna. Measure out 8 separate pieces that are 17. Make a High Performance TV Antenna From a Satellite Dish and a Few Parts.
Picture of Make a high performance TV antenna from a satellite dish and a few parts. In this video I will show you how to make the best DIY TV antenna that you can make. This TV is a all around very good small TV antenna you can make.
Attach the balun to the frame of the antenna. Connect the coaxial cable to the balun. Attach the other PVC pipe to this frame using the PVC angle.
Set up the antenna indoors or outdoors as per your requirement. Connect the antenna to the TV using the coaxial cable and tune your settings. Using a Bicycle Rim Design 3.
Using a Bicycle Rim. Antennas simply plug into your television and start fetching over-the-air channels which broadcasters send over the airwaves from their transmitting towers. You might be surprised by how many.
Cut the wire Using wire cutters cut eight 17-inch 4318-centimeter pieces of wire. Bend the wires into Vs with 7-inch 1778- centimeter sides and a 3-inch 762-centimeter gap between the two legs of the V Attach the wires to the board Attach the wire Vs to the board with screws and washers using a screwdriver. Great performing Yagi style antenna.
Then build this one for almost nothing and get better results. My Yagi style antenna I got from ebay was pulling about 60-85 signal strength on most channels and ALWAYS would have continual dropouts making it impossible to watch Free OTA over the air digital HDTV. It always dropped out at the.
Once youve found it make sure your antenna is facing that way. Connecting it to your TV. When everything is done and mounted youll want to run a coaxial cable from the ohm transformer on the antenna to your TV.
Attach it to the Antenna In jack and turn on the TV. The signal should be now much better. Your TV antenna should be at least 10-20 feet off the ground.
It should be the highest part of your home unless you have a lightning rod installed. Raising your antenna to this height may allow your antenna to clear any nearby obstacles and get a clear line of sight. Try a TV Antenna Signal Booster.
Others have mounted their antennas with lexan and thin plywood insulators to make a flush mount to hide the antenna indoors on a book shelf or to simply hang the antenna on the wall. Place heat-shrink tubing over the tips of the ears and use a flame or heat gun to shrink it tight to the wires. Use coaxial cable to connect a digital-signal-ready television or converter box to.
10 small screws. Ensure they arent long enough to pierce through your board. 6 is what Giacomo uses in the video.
10 washers with a hole large enough that you can fit the threads of the screws through but not so small the head of the screw can fit through. A homemade tv antenna made from 2 soda canscloth hanger and short coax cable with tv antenna connectorThis work only if there are free hd channels in your. Not hard to do here is a video the coaxial cable is shielded to stop rf bleeds.
Its really an antenna by itself but copper is expensive so this is the cheaper alternative.