Comments on: Homemade HDTV Antenna http://www.ax697.org/homemade-hdtv-antenna-2008372.html Business, Marketing, Technology, Projects and More Mon, 26 Dec 2011 10:30:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Lawrence Self http://www.ax697.org/homemade-hdtv-antenna-2008372.html/comment-page-1#comment-20199 Lawrence Self Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:54:21 +0000 http://www.ax697.org/homemade-hdtv-antenna-2008372.html#comment-20199 I'm an old, crusty, retired electronics engineer and my experience has been that just a couple of wet fingers will get you a UHF signal if you are close to the station. I live up in the mountains plus having tall trees all around and am a great distance from the new HDTV transmitters, so it looks like the high gain, dedicated antenna designs will be best for my fringe area signals. I am going with either miniature Yagi units or parabolic reflectors behind dipoles. Each must be carefully pointed to its station and digital signal alignment is not easy because the circuitry wants to tell you that you either have a useable signal or don't. An analog signal strength meter would be very handy. Good luck to us all. Larry I’m an old, crusty, retired electronics engineer and my experience has been that just a couple of wet fingers will get you a UHF signal if you are close to the station. I live up in the mountains plus having tall trees all around and am a great distance from the new HDTV transmitters, so it looks like the high gain, dedicated antenna designs will be best for my fringe area signals. I am going with either miniature Yagi units or parabolic reflectors behind dipoles. Each must be carefully pointed to its station and digital signal alignment is not easy because the circuitry wants to tell you that you either have a useable signal or don’t. An analog signal strength meter would be very handy.
Good luck to us all.

Larry

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