Build a Homemade TV Antenna from Coaxial Cable - DIY OTA TV Antenna
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- Build a Homemade TV Antenna from Coaxial Cable - DIY OTA TV Antenna. How to make a simple TV antenna from a scrap piece of coaxial cable. Built for receiving UHF channels 14-36, but it works well to receive some VHF channels too. If you want to make your own antenna for a specific TV channel, see the two links below:
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My 12 year old son didn't think I could build a antenna. We wanted to watch the playoffs. I followed your video. He said well I guess its ok to be cheap if you can make it work. Lol 😆
Thanks for the help showing my son you don't always have to throw money at everything.
Awesome! So glad you built one to enjoy the game. A valuable lesson for your son, too!👍
Here from MrBeast's latest video!! I had no idea it was so easy to make your own!
Antennas can be pretty simple, yet effective. Thanks for watching!
Same
Thanks! Went from 18 channels with an old rabbit ears to 37 channels your way. Couple tips: you don't need to strip the center conductor, and I hot glued mine to a 12" scrap of wood, tape will work. I hang it from the window blinds. Test will be tomorrow morning when the morning sun pours in that window, I'll see if the hot glue holds.
Thanks for the tips, and for watching my video. I’ll be interested to hear how everything turns out. Keep me posted.👍
It was astonishing how easy this was, worked an absolute treat!
Worked a treat. Carefully used a stanley knife and got dozens of channels on the TV in the basement. Luckily only two miles from the main antenna in the city. Also the quality is way better than i got from the cable box i recently got rid of.
Excellent!
stanley makes knifes now?!
Thanks, this truly is the most simple, easy and free method to get OTA tv. Also, did everything in this video with only a pair of scissors, no real tools required.
Been using Chromecast dongle but BBC streaming app is so temperamental. My wife wouldn't let me run a cable into the kitchen so I made your coax device and stuck it to a piece of cardboard and stuffed it behind the chest of drawers. We are only 20miles from a transmitter. PERFECT reception of digital programs. THANK YOU.
That’s great to hear! Thanks for watching!
From all the homemade antennas videos I found this is the best, great explanation, very simple, and work like a charm! thank you very much
Thanks for watching!
Here in the metro Detroit area I made one of these, 6" length as you described. I get digital 62-1 (CBS) from my basement TV perfectly clear! Enjoying the March Madness tournament now. Thanks so much for sharing this tip!! If you're a HAM, 73s....
Thanks for watching, glad to hear it works for you! Not a Ham, but 73!
I did something like the opposite once as a kid.
I connected the coax cable that was attached to my TV for cable tv to my stereo (an older Electrolux stereo with turntable and 8-track player) via a 75-300 ohm adapter.
I was then able to pick channel 2’s audio at 97.3FM. Oddly enough, I also picked up channel 36 (was MTV at the time through my cable company) at both 88.5 and 107.7FM.
I was just 13 years old in the late 80s. It was cool to listen to TV audio that way.
Ah, yes! We had that too here in Canada. FM cable. You could pick up audio feeds of TV channels. We had the coax connected (with 75 ohm transformer) to the home stereo receiver. Picked up MuchMusic (like MTV in Canada), and the movie networks.
Awesome! Worked perfectly for us! We actually went 3" and it works, at least for the channel we needed! Great tutorial!!
Great to hear, thanks for watching!
Did same but made mine almost 12 inches aandd i got 33 channels. All in clearly! Grreaat job.
Just made one of these for my bedroom, works just as good as my $100 indoor/outdoor unit I use for my living room.
Glad to hear, thanks for watching!
Wow, I just did this in like 15 minutes and my TV picked up around 100 channels, a few of them in 4k. Thanks for this!
Edit: maybe not 4k, but it was as good as a store bought antennae I got later that advertised 4k quality.
Glad it worked,thanks for watching!
Bro there’s no such thing as a “4K” Channel
What a liar😡
It's not much of a lie. So when are the "4k" stations going to start broadcasting in 4k?@@brianbc9
Thank you! I needed to move my HDTV antenna to another TV, and the 19" HDTV I use infrequently in my office needed a new antenna. Instead of buying a replacement, I make such an antenna using wood skewers and spare wire. The result was MORE than adequate for what I needed. I found more channels than I expected in my suburban home. For this set, I actually got more than the 40-mile rated flat HDTV antenna did, which was previously installed.
That’s great to hear! Thanks for watching!
Thanks it works better than any store bought one I have purchased.
Excellent! Thanks for watching!
Worked for me out on my ranch. Saved me some money.
Thank you!
That’s great to hear! Thanks for watching!
This works like a charm!! I just dumped cable and got a Roku but I still needed 2 antennas for local. You saved me about $60.
I "cut the cord" both literally and figuratively because I got the coax cable ends from my now useless cables. LoL
Thank you so much, for sharing your knowledge! I tried a couple of mid-range factory made antennas. Lousy reception, so I decided to try your trick. My channels come in clearly than they did, with the purchased versions. Thanks again! 👊🏽
Excellent! I’m so glad it’s working for you. Thanks for watching!
@@NorthcoasterHobby ~ Thank you! You’re awesome! 🫡
@@weeyee60 Thanks again!
Great video, thanks!
Thank you! Worked great, appreciate you sharing this.
Glad to hear that it worked for you- thanks for watching!
FYI, watched the MLB all star game last night with your antenna idea and had a noticeably better picture than a highly rated digital antenna that I used to own. It really works-thanks again.
@@charliestrickland2417 Awesome!👍
I’m around 25 miles from a tower, and I’m getting 31 stations, thank you!
Awesome! Great to hear and thanks for watching!
thanks!! worked perfectly!
Thanks mate didn't think it would but I must admit to everyone it certainly does work Hooray from Aussie
Glad it worked. Thanks for watching!
Thank you for not calling it a "HD" or "digital" antenna, like so many questionable manufacturers and TH-cam videos do.
An antenna is an antenna! Thanks for watching!
This really works. I just did it myself 🙂
Great! Happy to hear that. Thanks for watching!👍
I was having trouble getting local channels on just one tv with a simple rabbit ear indoor antenna. I have 3 tv towers located 25 to 26 miles away all in the same direction from my house. My roof is metal and my walls have metal mesh and plaster, so i opted for an outdoor antenna. I made this simple antenna just to get local channels on one tv. I attached it to my chimney about 17' above ground. I now receive 16 local channels with no noise or inteference, so i hooked the output of this antenna to an old un used satellite dish 4 way splitter and i now receive these 16 channels on all 4 tv's. The 3 tv towers were all located in an arc from 325 degrees to 345 degrees so i just rotated the arms perpendicular to the 335 degree line of sight. I taped the arms of this antenna to a fiberglass rod and slid two pieces of black rubber hose on each. i then ran the cable down through a 2' section of 1/2" pvc and glued the top part to the pvc and attached the pipe with small pipe clamps to an anchor.
Awesome! Thanks for sharing your experience with us. Glad to hear that the antenna is working well for you!
Picking up 21 channels just fine, good enough for me. Goodbye Spectrum.
Awesome!
As a telecommunications technician with a manufacturing consumer electronics background, believe me when I say major network throttling the signal feed deliberately.
More Elements = Better Reception = More Channels with good quality reception and that's what you get with the "more fancy and expensive" antennas. They put more into what they make and they work better and they are also easier to put up and use in any situation. All that you need is a mounting base pole to put it on.
I have a $100 "fancy" unit on my balcony that performs just about as well as the antenna shown in the video....
I just made one of these for my bedroom, and get practically every channel my "fancy" unit gets and I spent maybe 10 minutes total setting it all up, I haven't even looked for a better spot for the cable yet.
simple and usefull
thank you so much
If you leave the plastic over the center conductor and strip away all the shielding copper. You won't have trouble with it shorting. You can tape the antenna to a bit of wood to hold it in its shape.
True. I figured bending the centre conductor with the dielectric on it might risk breaking it. I’ve made other antennas out of wood but wanted to keep this as simple as possible.👍
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Thank you for this how-to. I was wondering: can I design my own multi-element dipole that includes parallel dipoles of lengths tuned to different frequencies?
I’m sure you could do that, or try a Yagi antenna design centered around a particular frequency.
www.rfwireless-world.com/calculators/3-element-Yagi-Antenna-Calculator.html
Thanks for watching!
Works great. Got about 10 channels. TY. Can explain why some antenna designs require the 75 to 300 ohm transformer and your design does not.
Glad it worked for you. To answer your question I’m not exactly sure why, though coaxial cable itself has an impedance of 75 ohms, whereas using two wires would likely have a higher impedance and need a 75-300 ohm transformer. Also since the cable itself is the antenna I didn’t see a need for a transformer. It has to do with the resistance to the transfer of signal between the elements and the cable. Here’s another antenna I made that might shed more light on the subject:
Build a Homemade DIY TV Antenna from copper wire - dipole OTA TV antenna for local channels
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Window antenna!
Thanks for this. I'm lucky that where I live has straight line of site to our areas tv antennas, about 10-12 miles as the seagull flies, up on 2000 ft ridge (I can see them with binoculars). There's some neighbor hedges partially blocking in front of my window but aren't stopping the signal for whatever reason. So have no idea if what I did will work in other situations.
Made this antenna and got channels 13-35. Could only get 3 which is NBC, only very rarely for an hour or so on a perfectly clear day. Researched, learned about low VHF needing longer antenna, started running numbers. Then realized the window was aiming the antenna through was aluminum framed, so attached wires from each end of your antenna to separate places on window frame and get channel 3 clearly along with all the others. Surprised and going to make this setup with more solid materials and be done.
Thanks for sharing your experience, and for watching!
It worked for me in Montreal
Awesome! Great to hear!👍
Does the quality of the coax cable make a difference? My condo has a wall jack for an external TV antenna. I plugged in an old coax and got 50 channels. I do have to flip channel by channel. Is that normal? I’m new to cord cutting.
RG6 is the best coax cable to use, as it minimizes signal loss. Sounds like the building you live in has a master antenna system, or perhaps an in-house cable system. Most areas can pick up some over the air channels, 50 is a very good amount of channels.However some areas can pick up 150+ channels! I only get 3.
Great videos 👍 do you have a link to buy that rg6 rg59 tv coax strippers. is that a klein brand tool
The tool in the video is made by Ideal. Here is a link for it:
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Also here are a couple of videos I made featuring Klein tools. Links are in the description.
Klein Tools Coaxial Cable Stripping Tool for RG6 Coax Cable
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Thanks for watching!
Thanks Bro, I just made a Homemade TV Antenna and the thing really worked. You have a good TH-cam channel there and now I have some good TV channels here.@@NorthcoasterHobby
@@lionelmcvinyl9027 So happy to hear that! Thanks again for watching!👍
i just made this last night to watch the NFL game with out lag for betting... i used an xatco knife and an old cable wire so all for free took 6 minutes and 4 were waiting for the search... making a bunch more for family tomorrow...
Awesome, thanks for watching!
I've seen models of antenna where copper and braid are basically touching, not directly, but on different parts of the antenna (solid metal antenna, they eventually make connection because of this). what's up with that?
The braided shield and copper conductor will short the signal if they touch.
I use a coax cable with a splitter and jump the splitter and it gives me 85 ch. In PA.
What do you mean jump the splitter?
I was making these in 1972 ...
And yet, they still work today!👍
I live in a highrise near the MoSun Connecticut.
Reception is normally awful for indoor antennae. unless I align it with Long Island Sound. I cant use an outdoor. But I have a 3x3 ft hot spot in my apartment.
Using a $20 antenna with an amp I got NYC! But only for a few hours. I receive most CT TV stations. CBS won't come in, but I have Paramount Plus. Good bye $130 Directv bill!
what is the point of a dipole when the braided portion is grounded? I made an antenna by eliminatiing the braided end at the antenna and attaching the center wire directly to an aluminum foil glued to a piece of cardboard. I am in Central Mass and get 65 channels. The flat of the antenna "faces" east/west. Maybe i'm wrong but I belive that dipoles are not grounded.
With antennas there is no one size fits all. I'd doo whatever works best for your reception situation. I'm not exactly sure about the ground, maybe you're on to something there.
If shorter antennas receive for channels, what’s the point of the high he expensive ones?
Larger antennas have more elements to capture more signal, offer more gain, and a more reliable signal in case of obstructions or bad weather. Also outdoor antennas are built to withstand harsh conditions in the outdoor elements. This simple antenna is for indoor use in strong signal areas.
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Thank you!
Can we use this type of antenna for boosting fm signal ?
Yes, this type of antenna will help FM reception.
i did this right now and it works thanks to you Man......i got 5 channels but the show is the same...is there any solve for this?
Glad you made one. Do you mean the channels are all showing the same program?
@@NorthcoasterHobby yes i have channel 1 , 2, 6, and 14 but it has the same program is there any solve for this?
@@mevlogs194 I’m not sure why that is. Are they duplicate or rebroadcast channels?
@@NorthcoasterHobby duplicate
Tell us what the channel this is? Call letters or channel number and city.
My tv is not working in belize have no channels and no signal
This indoor antenna works only in city please boss
I'm 40 miles from the primary city that carries OTA channels and I got 34 of them just using the center conductor on coax, not even any of the shielding.
is this antenna works as my radio antenna sir?
It probably can.
Can you use a longer coax cable in order to locate the antenna farther away from the tv or does a longer cable reduce reception?
A longer cable can be used.
Most channels I got with coax is 30channels
It didn’t work for me could i have done something wrong
Could be the location of the antenna.
Check here to see what TV stations are available in your area:
www.antennaweb.org
Enter your zip code, check ‘antenna will be installed 30’ above ground’ (even if it isn’t you’ll get a more complete list of channels available in your area).
Try moving the antenna around in different locations, near a window, facing the broadcast towers (the antenna web map will show these if any). Run a channel scan each time you change the position of the antenna.
Hope this helps, and best wishes.
It can work in a simple plasma🤔
A plasma TV? Yes it will.
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tried it out of curiousity, got no channels. could just be my area or the fact that my metal roof is blocking it.
Try placing the antenna in a window. Run a channel scan each time you move the antenna to a new spot.
Try this website to find where the broadcast towers are located in your area to give you an idea of which direction to point the antenna:
www.antennaweb.org/
Enter your zip code.
Click ‘antenna will be installed 30 feet above ground’- this will give you a better listing of available channels.
Press ‘go’.
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What DIY vids should be, thanks, "just the facts.... "
Thanks for watching!
Or just use a paper clip as an antenna..picked up 62 channels.
That can work, too.
Probably if you live really near the emmiting antennas! If so, good for you!
What if you live out in the boonies
You will need a much bigger antenna with more elements.
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Ok
I followed your exact instructions, but was disappointed to discover that this worked worse than the little flat panel antenna that I paid $5 for. .
There is no one size fits all for a TV antenna, unfortunately. Glad the flat panel antenna works for you though.
03:18 To be fair for $15 you can already buy an actual aerial antenna instead of crimping tool that you won't ever need to use besides putting connectors on coax or RJ45 plugs for UTP, hell even for $5 at some flea markets, 30 year old antenna or new one it's all the same.
Don't take it wrong I understand the joy for DIY, I'm just saying these old school VHF/UHF antennas are incredibly cheap and you can also get a cheap amplifier to boost signal as well, you don't need any of that Amazon crap for $100,
Fair enough.
You can buy one for that hassle..5$
The fun is in the doing.
Who sells it
Or... You can make one for free and a few minutes of time....
I messed up like 10 million
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The price of the stripping tool would almost buy a cheap antenna at most box stores.
The fun is in the doing, not the buying.
worked great if not better than an antena
Great to hear, thanks for watching!
hmmm4_4 thx Goood show kinda nice
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