A more in depth vid of my UHF/VHF coat hanger antenna.
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A more in depth vid of my UHF/VHF coat hanger antenna.
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does it work in Australia? our frequencies here are 65-550 Mhz?
I would like this so much more, it would be so much more helpful if the video were LIT well. It’s so difficult to see the work you’ve done with such poor lighting. Also, when you took apart the UHF/VHF antenna, you didn’t say whether or not it is amplified (it seems to be since there is a blue light on)…
Great job. Looks good.
Could be wrong, but it should work
Thanks for this solution. I tried 4 purchase antennas, and the original coathanger antenna,and was unable to receive VHF. With your version I am able to receive VHF and had a use for my old amplified antenna. Works great. Kudos
OK the idea ! ( and nice the quick final comment ).
does it work for an analog tv with a converter box? i live in cali, nd cant even watch fox 11 my tv doesnt picks it up at all. or channel 13, or 7 wich should be local, nd have the best shows. i cant afford a new tv.. please help? i haven’t watched my simpsons 4 way too long.!!!
god bless u man
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Again man, I love you. You have a talent in explaining things …..I listened to both of these videos intensely ……. then you said watch Desperate Housewives in HD & I crapped my pants laughing. Whatever Great Video …God Bless
If you splice rabbit ears onto the UHF coat hanger antenna, (A) connect them at the transformer connection point, and (B) make sure they’re treated as separate antennas and not an enlargement of the UHF antenna. This is done by connecting them with a shielded wire (like cable) or a coil (curly spiral wire). Just connecting them anywhere on the UHF antenna throws it out of tune.
Thanks for making this video. I stupidly threw out many antennas over the years, even one last week.
Thanks for giving more details
i just got the ANT-585 so i can try this
Nice work dude!! Keep it krafty!!
What if I only have the rabbit ears? Can’t I just use the end of the two wires and screw them against the coat hangers?
Good job. I like clever things built from common materials.
these kind of projects are always interesting. I may very well build one of these using coathangers and wire at some point. For the moment I am using a 4 bay antenna built using a wooden dowel as a support with 4 Radio Shack Bowtie antennas snapped onto the dowel. Actually I have the wires crossing over from the top and bottom bowties and then of course a transformer in the middle between the bottom and top pairs. I can tell you that it works very well as I receive long distance TV stations.
copper always better and don’t need any amplified rabbit years just attach any rabbit ear antenna and have a signal adapter that can receive two sources of signals.
great video but do you have to have an amplified antenna or does it have to be plugged in to work?
please make a video to show how much channels you recieve and rescan so i can see how many channels u recieve
Cool, but could a regular powered VHF antenna be used instead of the “HD” one?
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Thanks. I really need PBS here in San Antonio. come by tattoo shop at Zarzamora & Fred. rd maybe you can help with crap reception we get
[1/2] Nice on integrating a VHF solution into one of the popular designs. It seems many are not paying attention to their local markets or have an incomplete understanding of where their local channels will end up on the radio spectrum. I’ve seen comments claiming all DTV will be on UHF, which is false, so thanks for bringing that to light, however, I have to disagree about the use of the RCA guts on your antenna…
[2/2] I have two RCA amplified antennas and they have poor or no filtering on them, meaning any local strong signals (pager tower, ham radio, police) will completely black out digital TV reception. This always happened to me until I went back to my non-amplified rabbit ears. If you can manage, an non-amplified outdoor antenna is the best, or if you have to use an amplifier, get one that is known to have bandpass filters for the TV bands.
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