[kwlug-disc] Home made indoor TV Antenna

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

Yeah, the forums and such all say the same thing.

Yes, CKCO is so strong and will come in on anything, even the old abandoned
satellite dish in the backyard.

The two antennas I tried just provide a baseline. Even the lowly aluminum
dish, without the need to go out and buy anything.

CIII (Global) seems like a Toronto channel and yes, it is coming in when
the dish is pointing east, TVO comes in when it is pointing south-ish.

The issue is that I have a large spruce tree and a neighbor's house too, in
addition to distance, elevation, ...etc.

Andrew Kohlsmith has an external antenna with an amplifier, plus he is east
of Chickopee and getting CN Tower stuff. He is several levels up from what
I am doing. Baby steps ...



On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 12:52 PM, unsolicited <unsolicited at swiz.ca> wrote:

> 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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