/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>636987
I see your indoor antenna and raise you this one I built and used for over 2 years.

The elements are 3/16" brass rod. The inteconnects are 3/32" brass rod. The insulators were cut from a plastic cutting board. The hardware is all stainless steel, and I used nylock nuts so they wouldn't come loose from the wind. Elements and interconnect rails are all soldered for reliability. The pole is standard electrical conduit. Worked awesomely even without a reflector.

>>572781
I built a full-on outdoor version of that myself and are still using it, works great.

I'd get a gun-style soldering iron because you're going to be working with what amounts to large heat-sinks.

BTW DTV antennas are mainly UHF, few stations use VHF.

>>257984
>Anyone into OTA antennas?
Yes.

DTV antenna.
..and yes, it normally would have a reflector behind the receive elements, but frankly it works awesomely without it, so I didn't bother.

>>141333
>polarization
Receive signal strength/SNR about the same either way.

>wood
As stated above, this was a "proof of concept" for feasibility of dumping cable TV to save money, thus there was no point in spending any more money than necessary to make a working model -- regardless of the ghetto appearance.

>>141303
http://tvantennaplans.com
These are the plans I used as a basis for what I built.
The attached pic is the "production" version that currently resides on the side of my roof.
It's not perfect, but it's the first antenna I've ever tried to build.