got 2 ten foot tubes used for chain link fence. Connected them and placed store bought antenna near the top. Height is what is important. Mounted against the house. Now my TVs get about 50 channels inc'd PBS and all the major networks in 1080 plus CD quality sound in stereo. Screw cable and ATT. I've had this set up for decades except for when 2 hurricanes blew it away til I replaced it. Still, liked this video
I live in NYC where the signal strength is great. So I used an old pair of Rabbit Ears antenna with a 300ohm flat wire lead that goes into a Flat wire to F-connector and 75ohm coax wire to the TV. with this setup I get about 95% of channels at HD 1080. That is about 45 channels with every network station plus extras. I even tried with just a wire for the antenna and most channels were picked up. Signal strength is everything.
@@albertserrano3707 I'm not American so don't freak if this is a stupid question, but isn't cable via, you know, cable? A frequency travelling through the air can be picked up quite easily. Might be some sort of encryption if it has its own set top box or something but the signal is still there and might be possible to decrypt
Sweet :) A simple but effective antenna with a ground plane (the aluminum can bottom). This is, if I'm not mistaken, a directional antenna though. Right now, I am using a 4' piece of coaxial cable with about 15" of the bare copper core exposed, the ground wires just stripped back (no ground plane) hooked up to my 50" Vizio TV with the cable running up the wall behind the unit and pulling in all three available OTA channels in my area. The stations are at least 100 miles away and the nearest repeater is still 60 miles away. Great job sir. Cheers :)
Not to be rude, it is not what you think. It looks like a directional Yagi antenna, but it isn't. It is actually just a monopole antenna. The can serves just as the other pole (ground plane / counterpoise). Very likely a quarter wave Ground Plane Antenna (the one with the sloping radials) will work better.
This worked super well for cell phone calls. I copied what i saw here and added it to an old dial telephone that must be 50 years old and i was able to connect it to my cell tower and call my granny in Australia for free. Thanks man!!!!!!!!!!
For those who has a built in master arial for condo unit. But clarity of the picture is still a major issue. It seems it's good and simple way to built one. Thanking the channel 👌
A while back I made a planar disc antenna for my SDR using two pizza pans that I purchased from Dollar Tree. One day I got curious and tried it out on my TV. It is amazing! It has no problem picking up every local channel. It's the easiest and best performing TV antenna that I have built yet.
@@radioroger1683 I just made another one for my girlfriend's place because she cancelled her dish. I mounted the two pizza pans on a 3' piece of 1 1/2" PVC pipe and painted it dark gray after attaching the coax to the pans and sealing the attachment points with silicone. Currently picking up 43 channels and the antenna is just sitting in the flower bed.
@@T_Burd_75 - If you could get it where its semi line of site in the direction of the transmitters I bet you could get more channels, BUT outside is still better than inside,
Thanks very much. I made one using your method. IT worked perfect! Almost a copy of your antenna - another beer can though!!! I used it indoor. Antenna was kept near the roof close to a corner of a side wall.
I built this antenna EXACTLY as shown. When I first tested it, on a clear moonless night, I scanned for any available channels in my vicinity. Almost immediately, I picked up a faint, but very distinct garbled message. The video was still hazy, but when I adjusted the antenna ever so slightly, the audio transmission started to come in very strong. Excitedly, I input the audio signal into my Dell computer, and started to analyze the message with my highly sophisticated universal translater program. Shockingly, I discovered that the signals originated from the Zeta Reticuli binary star system. After running a detailed analysis, I began to slowly decode a message from a highly advanced race of aliens. But then, my mommy yelled at me and told me it was way past my bedtime. Unfortunately. I was never able to establish contact again. I wonder if they were friendly. 🤔
I have built several of these and they work very well. I mounted one on the top of a mobile home and it pulls in channels from 50 miles away. I live in a rural area of Oklahoma.
I was going to say the same thing that not a single tool he used was sharp the wire cutters couldn't cut the wire they were pretty much pliers , the razor knife not sure that could be sharp but yeah lol
Thanks man this really worked out fine. I used foil paper to make the dome shaped part, because I don't get the chance to obtain a soda can yet. I will get one when I go to the supermarket tomorrow and I will definitely let you know if it works better
Shooots! That's all you got?. I did the same, I got all your packages plus CIA, NSA, M15 and GRU core electronic intelligence data. Oh almost forgot, the FBI's too😊
I bought a commercial directional antenna with an antenna turner (for my living room). It cost about $100, I put it in my attic, and we get about 40 channels. I live in Western Massachusetts, about 90 miles from Boston MA.
I spead this stuff on my garden to make it grow . When I was a kid we had a monster antenna with over a 180+ elements on the roof with an inline amplifier to pick up some of the 1st color programs . Held in place with 6 guide wires. And this thing the size of a Craker Jack's box, is the most powerful, again makes great fertilizer. 😂🤣😂
Ted Papesh - In 1962 in the flatlands north of Saginaw Michigan my father and a telecom friend built a high gain antenna with 300 ohm lead, 60 feet on schedule 80 pipe, we could pick up a whopping 5 stations! up to 200 miles away! Also had a 100 ft of wire wrapped around the pole for AM radio and at night could easily pick up KFI Los Angeles, WOR New York, KOA Denver, KCBS San Francisco and my sisters favorite 690 AM Tijuana Mexico with Wolfman Jack! 690 was running 100K watts, Those were the days!
Once made a 6 bay antenna out of coax, coat hangers and a 2x4. Pulled in HD PBS from over two hundred mile away. These will work much better in a city, but will work sometimes in a rural setting too. Never know until you try.
It's a known facts that even if you put an outdoor antenna up 200 feet above your home, that signal can only pull maxium 80 miles away: The 200 miles is erroneous because the Axis of the earth, if you look that up, you'll find it to be a fact. I can see 80 but, not the 200 mile range 😅😅😅😅
I had a coax cable attached to a screw on the wall socket outlet and the other high up and a coat hanger attached to the copper coax sticking out. Hung it up and it picked all the local channels up. That was 2000
A lot of effort there my friend. Depending on how close to the local transmitter you are (and the strength and quality of the signal) having a length of coaxial cable connected would get you decent pictures.
Looks interesting, I will make this soon. Might I suggest a decent knife for stripping the cables or a real wire stripper and get some sharp diagonal cutters. I am looking forward to seeing my reception. Thank you.
As long as it's aluminum just about anything will work. I made one with a bicycle wheel that got 60 channels. Once I took the aluminum bar out of a stereo with the flaps, stretching them out and cutting it into strips and arranged them into an arrow shape like a regular antenna. No more than a foot long I got 65 channels
@@nayyerkhan7756 Thanks I appreciate your support. I might just do that. I know a little about cable and signals as I was in CATV for 25 years starting as an installer then a lineman on up to system maintenance. Those were the good old days
One could use a drop of water - which will accumulate at the exact centre. A drop of any colored liquid could be used making it easier to see - such as food coloring - and first make a small pilot hole with a 1mm drill or smaller - or punch a hole with a rugged needle in the center of the liquid droplet. Always work to be as precise as humanly possible.
As I remember antenna shape and length very much depends on the frequency you try to fetch,your position, your surroundings,.. at the end ,,an antenna which works for you will not work for your neighbor if you receive a weak signal.
I thank you. These are simple easy designs of proven antennae. I have no need to be mean and judgemental. With reciever amps, and shields... these can draw many more channels.
I suggest this be retitled, "How To Do Wirestripping With a Boxcutter and Somehow Not Land Yourself in the Emergency Room." That was the truly amazing part, and this is coming from someone who always used X-Acto knives dangerously.. Can't wait for the follow up video, "Running With Scissors While Cutting Paper Dolls."
I'm thoroughly amazed that I never looked into what I could use that is quite easily available, right in my basement. Damn that's the easiest thing I could've done that actually works! I guess I over thought it. Lol 😆. I've been doing diy projects for 50 yrs!!! Duh 🙄 ohh well maybe I ain't as smart as I thought 🤔🤔🤔 lol. I can't wait to share this brilliant idea 💡. 👍✌️😎🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
To everyone finding something negative to say about this, find something better to do with your time. For the base/parabolic mirror, I used a slightly larger stainless bowl, but otherwise did exactly as shown in the video. It works great. I live outside of a big city, and with it pointed in that direction, I only have to move it for one out of 21 channels.
I've worked in electronics for many years I remember back when the old conventional televisions had sound separation at the third IF strip. Watched a big part tubes transitioning to solid-state. The antenna above that's being demonstrated works quite well anytime you're dealing with high frequencies it's amazing at little changes or tweaks that will make a difference. I wasn't at all trying to be negative just a little attempt at a sense of humor that didn't turn out so well. I'll be the first to tell you when dealing electronics when designing electrical circuits I've made some of the biggest mistakes going..as a matter of fact I use a similar design with my Wi-Fi for my gaming computer and by manipulating the link's of those elements you can obtain many different variations. You have my utmost apologies if you was offended in any way.
That is a 1/4 wave 800mhz whip with no directional qualities , in other words , a half of a 'rabbit ear' . you are only teaching people how to cut their fingers with a razor blade
If you asked an art student to build a Yagi antenna, this is what you'd get. It looks cute, but any piece of metal would work just as well. Also, a few lessons in soldering and proper soldering iron maintenance would be good advice for this guy.
I was reading all the responses here and did not want to say anything. But since you did. A piece of wire would do as good (at a good length) most likely . They need to google yagi antenna and see it is a directional antenna. That might make a light bulb go off for them. I did not watch much of the video, I saw a yagi and the title and just started reading and laughing. Then hit ^F and typed yagi and saw your reply.. Thanks for the entertainment.
I came across this video while researching FM antenna for my vintage Marantz receiver but I was shocked to see those Moroccan channels at the end of the video. 😅👍🇲🇦
Having the antenna in the line of sight of the transmitter is key to success. You can receive signals from far away if antenna and transmitter are high enough not to be affected by the curvature of the earth/
Depending upon your location and how many stations are in your area, you can simply use an unfolded paper clip and put it in the cable jack on the back of the tv. Larger cities, more channels, smaller rural towns, not so much.
seriously thinking about cutting the cords and screw xfinity, at&t , dish, .... too expensive , but i wouldnt be able to get many channels i do watch by downgrading to an antanea , but it would sure help me financially, i do live in rural area, approx 20 miles from nearest city, great video, looks like an easy DIY if i choose to in the future , thank you
No, it is not a "parasitic array" (actual name). Not even close. This is a click-bait "antenna" which does not even work any better than a piece of wire stuck into the coax connector hole.
and a sharpie, and a sharp pair of dykes, and some better soldering skills and a proper tool for stripping coax.. this video is nothing more than another come on to make money by the provider. It's hokey at best.
You should be able to use the cable coax running thru your attic or structure as an antenna buy using a cable signal booster to boost the signals picked up by the coax. I did that for a number of years to get TV signals from transmission towers that were 75 miles or more away and use it now to boost the signals picked up by a standard flat black plastic indoor antenna I've had mounted outside for the past four years. I'm using a Channel Master signal booster that I purchased at Lowes in 1985 to boost the cable signal in four long runs thru my home's attic to different rooms. It's been plugged into 110v since then and has yet to crap out. Must of been made in the USA!
Yeah I had the whole booster set in antenna and got two channels that was it my area didn't have hardly any channels it depends on where you live if you live in the city there's more towers if you live out in the mountains there's nothing
@@localfirealarm3767 I had cable ran to 7 rooms so might of had the right number of random lengths for tuning in the stations! Was surprised myself when I tried using an old pair of rabbit ears to see if that would bring any in.
@@keithmartin3914 I went ahead and bought a roof antenna with directional motor from Radio Shack to get more channels and wound up pulling in up to 54, depending on where it was aimed and weather/time of year. I'm in rural East Texas where it's hilly with most covered with trees. I lived on high ground so aimed the antenna where there gaps in the trees to get a decent signal. Got more stations when it was windy and even more during the Fall and Winter when the trees had no leaves.
That you are picking up signals is by sheer luck and sufficient signal strenght, not because the antenna does something useful. It looks very impressive with the tapered directors resembling a logper, and the dish reflector, but that doesn't do a thing. I think the directors pick up some frequencies because of their varying length. A real antenna which this project seems to resemble has a real feed point on the active element. And yes, the reflector and directors could have a shape like this and even soldered to a common conductor.
It looks like the center conductor of the coax is all that is touching the elements. Some Yagi-Uda antennas have insulated elements but this is a joke.
A simple directional Yagi antenna. I don’t know about being the most powerful antenna, but it will work. BTW, In a lot of cases just a simple length of bare wire will work good pretty good. Nice video though.
A true yagi antenna has the alternate sides tied together for an amplification effect. What you have there is a piece of wire with smaller pieces of wire soldered to it. It's an antenna, albeit a poor one.
I agree. The first thing I noticed is this is WAAAY too small to be a TV antenna. The wavelengths would be much better for 2.4 Ghz wifi. The highest freq on the UHF TV band would need to be about 3 times as long as the biggest elements here - and all of the other channels would need to be even longer. My cable was out the other night and we really wanted to watch Jeopardy. All I needed was a 12" alligator lead clipped to the center conductor of the coax and re-scan for "antenna" and we got 38 channels.
Thats really no better than just doing the center element. Its an omni non directional antenna no matter what you tack onto it. If you want it directional the second longest element is where you connect the coax and the center goes to the left side and the outer braid goes to the right. Not sure if your element dimensions are correct either. It depends on the frequency you are trying to get. There are already designs and you just scale it to the frequency you want ( the center of all the channels you want to watch.) If you know the frequency it is that in HZ divided by 300000000 (300 million) and then divide that by 8 and that's the length of each side of that driven element I mentioned above. If you want to make one just as good as what you just did but way less difficult, divide by 4 and just strip that amount off the end of the coax and you have one as good as any indoor antenna you can buy. Just make sure the outer foil or weave does not short against the center wire. That's the only thing that can go wrong. Then just place in the best spot.
Nice video. Once I made a 2.4 gig parabolic wifi antenna using an aluminum snow sled, and an old 1 lb. coffee can (the wave guide) on a fixed tripod. Inside the can I mounted a 1.25 inch vertical antenna (the active element, with a coax connector), 1.25 inch from the rear of the can. Note: if you don't have the snow sled, make a parabolic dish or get an old Dish Network dish. The element (antenna ) should be in the focal point of the parabolic dish. The focal point math formula is: Radius squared divided by the depth X 4..
If you are using a DirectV or Dish network reflector....keep in mind that while they are parabolic....they are only a section of a full parabolic dish. This means that the focal point is NOT in the center of the dish. Thats why the original feed is offset from the center. Pointing the feed at the correct focal point is very important, as is the pointing of the dish reflector itself. The center of the reflector is NOT where you point...for boresight.
@@huh4233 The most widely used formula to calculate the approximate overall length of wire required for a dipole is: 468 / frequency (MHz) = length of wire in feet.
@Xaphan Vassago The most widely used formula to calculate the approximate overall length of wire required for a dipole is: 468 / frequency (MHz) = length of wire in feet.
Usually cable installers in my area like fresh cable and connectors. They tend to leave behind a lot of cable and components. I have always picked up those discarded items and saved them for "builds" like this.
is this like the over the air HD antenna's you buy at home depot with the 50 mile range? They didn't work on my TV since the nearest broadcast station is further away than 50 miles.
While the concept of the antenna is fine, it has core problems. Right behind the TV it’s not going to do anything. You would need it up higher like on a roof. It would also need to be larger, like 6 foot. If you drive around long enough, you will likely find a house with a proper antenna on its roof. There is a reason they are that size and a lot of actual science behind it.
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got 2 ten foot tubes used for chain link fence. Connected them and placed store bought antenna near the top. Height is what is important. Mounted against the house. Now my TVs get about 50 channels inc'd PBS and all the major networks in 1080 plus CD quality sound in stereo. Screw cable and ATT. I've had this set up for decades except for when 2 hurricanes blew it away til I replaced it. Still, liked this video
I live in NYC where the signal strength is great. So I used an old pair of Rabbit Ears antenna with a 300ohm flat wire lead that goes into a Flat wire to F-connector and 75ohm coax wire to the TV. with this setup I get about 95% of channels at HD 1080. That is about 45 channels with every network station plus extras.
I even tried with just a wire for the antenna and most channels were picked up. Signal strength is everything.
Did nobody else notice the screwed up efect at the end? The cable is passing thru the sreen.
No, but I did notice the typo in your comment.
Don't find fault in everything. Congratulate the guy for the effort he put in....@@greghendel6540
@@shaansingh4670 efect....?
If you don't have cable, forget about 5hose channels. The FCC is selling those frequencies.
@@albertserrano3707 I'm not American so don't freak if this is a stupid question, but isn't cable via, you know, cable? A frequency travelling through the air can be picked up quite easily. Might be some sort of encryption if it has its own set top box or something but the signal is still there and might be possible to decrypt
Sweet :)
A simple but effective antenna with a ground plane (the aluminum can bottom).
This is, if I'm not mistaken, a directional antenna though.
Right now, I am using a 4' piece of coaxial cable with about 15" of the bare copper core exposed, the ground wires just stripped back (no ground plane) hooked up to my 50" Vizio TV with the cable running up the wall behind the unit and pulling in all three available OTA channels in my area.
The stations are at least 100 miles away and the nearest repeater is still 60 miles away.
Great job sir.
Cheers :)
Wow this is incredible 😮
very much so, in fact you'll lose the signal only 3 degrees off at 20 feet away...... lot like a yagi but a lot less forgiving
Not to be rude, it is not what you think. It looks like a directional Yagi antenna, but it isn't. It is actually just a monopole antenna. The can serves just as the other pole (ground plane / counterpoise). Very likely a quarter wave Ground Plane Antenna (the one with the sloping radials) will work better.
your right this is just a simple yagi/uda with a reflector
This worked super well for cell phone calls. I copied what i saw here and added it to an old dial telephone that must be 50 years old and i was able to connect it to my cell tower and call my granny in Australia for free. Thanks man!!!!!!!!!!
For those who has a built in master arial for condo unit. But clarity of the picture is still a major issue. It seems it's good and simple way to built one. Thanking the channel 👌
A while back I made a planar disc antenna for my SDR using two pizza pans that I purchased from Dollar Tree. One day I got curious and tried it out on my TV. It is amazing! It has no problem picking up every local channel. It's the easiest and best performing TV antenna that I have built yet.
Link to your tutorial video?
They finished. Beautiful 😍
Are you using it inside or outside?
@@radioroger1683 I just made another one for my girlfriend's place because she cancelled her dish. I mounted the two pizza pans on a 3' piece of 1 1/2" PVC pipe and painted it dark gray after attaching the coax to the pans and sealing the attachment points with silicone. Currently picking up 43 channels and the antenna is just sitting in the flower bed.
@@T_Burd_75 - If you could get it where its semi line of site in the direction of the transmitters I bet you could get more channels, BUT outside is still better than inside,
Thanks very much. I made one using your method. IT worked perfect! Almost a copy of your antenna - another beer can though!!!
I used it indoor. Antenna was kept near the roof close to a corner of a side wall.
It works in indian TVs
Foarte inteligență procedura.FELICITĂRI.
I built this antenna EXACTLY as shown. When I first tested it, on a clear moonless night, I scanned for any available channels in my vicinity. Almost immediately, I picked up a faint, but very distinct garbled message. The video was still hazy, but when I adjusted the antenna ever so slightly, the audio transmission started to come in very strong. Excitedly, I input the audio signal into my Dell computer, and started to analyze the message with my highly sophisticated universal translater program. Shockingly, I discovered that the signals originated from the Zeta Reticuli binary star system. After running a detailed analysis, I began to slowly decode a message from a highly advanced race of aliens. But then, my mommy yelled at me and told me it was way past my bedtime. Unfortunately. I was never able to establish contact again.
I wonder if they were friendly.
🤔
Same here 😂
@@joshkeen3125 Yeah man ! Me too ! And here I thought it was just me,. Wow,.I'm gonna keep trying again..
Moms always ruin stuff.
😂
@@MikeGervasi Like being not born. I was happy being not born before she went and got knocked up and ruined it.
Just made one for my camper. It works as well as the $100.00 antenna I have on my house. It all stores in a ziploc bag when we travel.
lol
you mean trash bag?
I have built several of these and they work very well. I mounted one on the top of a mobile home and it pulls in channels from 50 miles away. I live in a rural area of Oklahoma.
Wow! It is a very useful! A wonderful idea!
It works 99 percent thanks for sharing bro i got a lot of channel to scan watch it loud and clear
Neat little project do I was cringing EVERYTIME you were using that cutter! There are tools out there that make that job SOOOOO much easier and safe.
the way he solders the wires together .. its no problem to use a Nail cliper
Dollar store tools?
Holy cow, I thought I had the dullest drill bit in existence. You win.
all his tools were dull. Not one of them sharp.
i feared for his fingers
Yeah he had me beat by a Loooooooooong Shot!!!
I was going to say the same thing that not a single tool he used was sharp the wire cutters couldn't cut the wire they were pretty much pliers , the razor knife not sure that could be sharp but yeah lol
☝🤣The dullest tool in the shed.
WOW the signal is received perfectly. The author of the antenna needs to be given the Nobel Prize urgently!!!
I tried it! Great success. It looks beautiful.
Thanks man this really worked out fine. I used foil paper to make the dome shaped part, because I don't get the chance to obtain a soda can yet. I will get one when I go to the supermarket tomorrow and I will definitely let you know if it works better
I can't believe I was watching such crap….🤣🤣
I hear a Classic Coke can works better
@@jeffdwyer6105 could you be less right
You will receive twice as many stations if you use a Dr. Pepper can. 😁
@@brianroberts815 multiply that by itself 7 times and you’ll have the number of channels you receive with a 7-up can.
I did this and i now get netflix, hulu, prime, hbo max, free internet and i can see all my neighbors security camera footage!!! Thanks for the video!!
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Shooots! That's all you got?. I did the same, I got all your packages plus CIA, NSA, M15 and GRU core electronic intelligence data. Oh almost forgot, the FBI's too😊
@@COO415 💯💯💯🤣
Many thanks for sharing your amazing tips with us. Very useful. 🎉
The key to great reception is no obstructions and pointed towards the signal towers the higher the better when it comes to the antenna.
What's really cool is around Christmas time you can hang ornaments on it and put a star on top.
I made a parabolic antenna for my usb wifi adapter out of a mesh food strainer ..actually worked pretty good
I bought a commercial directional antenna with an antenna turner (for my living room). It cost about $100, I put it in my attic, and we get about 40 channels. I live in Western Massachusetts, about 90 miles from Boston MA.
My amazement was seeing a Bic pen work like that...
I spead this stuff on my garden to make it grow . When I was a kid we had a monster antenna with over a 180+ elements on the roof with an inline amplifier to pick up some of the 1st color programs . Held in place with 6 guide wires. And this thing the size of a Craker Jack's box, is the most powerful, again makes great fertilizer. 😂🤣😂
He probably does not care. Over a million views, he's probably made hundreds of dollars. It's called click bait.
Ted Papesh - In 1962 in the flatlands north of Saginaw Michigan my father and a telecom friend built a high gain antenna with 300 ohm lead, 60 feet on schedule 80 pipe, we could pick up a whopping 5 stations! up to 200 miles away! Also had a 100 ft of wire wrapped around the pole for AM radio and at night could easily pick up KFI Los Angeles, WOR New York, KOA Denver, KCBS San Francisco and my sisters favorite 690 AM Tijuana Mexico with Wolfman Jack! 690 was running 100K watts, Those were the days!
WOOOOOOWWWWWW.......EXCELLENT ! GOOD JOB , thank you very much !
I'm impressed and you can get all the channels in HD as you wish for free without paying both cable and dish.
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Once made a 6 bay antenna out of coax, coat hangers and a 2x4. Pulled in HD PBS from over two hundred mile away. These will work much better in a city, but will work sometimes in a rural setting too. Never know until you try.
It's a known facts that even if you put an outdoor antenna up 200 feet above your home, that signal can only pull maxium 80 miles away: The 200 miles is erroneous because the Axis of the earth, if you look that up, you'll find it to be a fact. I can see 80 but, not the 200 mile range 😅😅😅😅
Bet it won't add anything more than a bare wire of the same length to receive available channels however must admit, IT LOOKS CUTE!
Cool!! I just might try this one day.
Very informative very interesting I think I'm going to try this
I’m not sure it’s the most powerful antenna in the world, but it is an antenna. Good job.
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Antenna of sorts, must have strong signals there.
Leider Gottes funktioniert nicht.
Habe genauso gemacht. Vielleicht in der Nähe des Senders aber auf dem Lande kommt kein Signal rein.
I had a coax cable attached to a screw on the wall socket outlet and the other high up and a coat hanger attached to the copper coax sticking out. Hung it up and it picked all the local channels up. That was 2000
2000 local channels?!?
Where in the shit do you live??
A lot of effort there my friend. Depending on how close to the local transmitter you are (and the strength and quality of the signal) having a length of coaxial cable connected would get you decent pictures.
Thank you for sharing this wise message.
This LOOKS like an antenna. That's the best I can say about it.
Wow, even the cat realized the drill was running backwards.
I was so on the wrong track til a huge light bulb appeared on my head!! Duh! Absolute genius! Thank you!
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Salut
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Wow!!! So powerful that working in reverse mode it could throw the ISS off course and convert it in spacial debris!!!
Looks interesting, I will make this soon. Might I suggest a decent knife for stripping the cables or a real wire stripper and get some sharp diagonal cutters. I am looking forward to seeing my reception. Thank you.
As long as it's aluminum just about anything will work. I made one with a bicycle wheel that got 60 channels. Once I took the aluminum bar out of a stereo with the flaps, stretching them out and cutting it into strips and arranged them into an arrow shape like a regular antenna. No more than a foot long I got 65 channels
You should share it with people in youtube as practically
@@nayyerkhan7756 Thanks I appreciate your support. I might just do that. I know a little about cable and signals as I was in CATV for 25 years starting as an installer then a lineman on up to system maintenance. Those were the good old days
And if you’re like me you probably still couldn’t find anything to watch lol
First I have to find dull rusty tools.
not just aluminium works...
If you mount it on your car you'll almost be able to join ghost busters
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Or on your helmet to receive space messages from Clandathu😃
Your power level will also "almost" be over 9000... The cat is a nice touch. Meow
Smart idea man, good job.
Great video everything proven vhs tapes don't stop playing at all like internet does an tv antenna does
I love how you take the effort of using a pen to mark the place where you're going to drill a hole, and then drill a totally off-center hole :P
Drill was in reverse for the most part.
One could use a drop of water - which will accumulate
at the exact centre.
A drop of any colored liquid could be used making it
easier to see - such as food coloring - and first make
a small pilot hole with a 1mm drill or smaller - or punch
a hole with a rugged needle in the center of the liquid droplet.
Always work to be as precise as humanly possible.
As I remember antenna shape and length very much depends on the frequency you try to fetch,your position, your surroundings,.. at the end ,,an antenna which works for you will not work for your neighbor if you receive a weak signal.
New Subscriber. Keep the videos coming
It really does work. I have one of these.
An element of success there. Two antennas got married, the wedding was terrible, but, the reception was great.
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Would be nice if the person talked to make sense of what he's demonstrating.
PLEASE READ THE CAPTIONS; and you can Figure it OUT,as it is Very SELF explanatory
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Awesome and so tiny!!! Thank you! Cable companies hate you lol!
Wow.....now that's a genius techanology style
I thank you. These are simple easy designs of proven antennae. I have no need to be mean and judgemental. With reciever amps, and shields... these can draw many more channels.
And...reciever choke coils
You’re scaring me with your sharp tools!
I suggest this be retitled, "How To Do Wirestripping With a Boxcutter and Somehow Not Land Yourself in the Emergency Room." That was the truly amazing part, and this is coming from someone who always used X-Acto knives dangerously..
Can't wait for the follow up video, "Running With Scissors While Cutting Paper Dolls."
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I'm thoroughly amazed that I never looked into what I could use that is quite easily available, right in my basement. Damn that's the easiest thing I could've done that actually works! I guess I over thought it. Lol 😆. I've been doing diy projects for 50 yrs!!! Duh 🙄 ohh well maybe I ain't as smart as I thought 🤔🤔🤔 lol. I can't wait to share this brilliant idea 💡. 👍✌️😎🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
p.s I thank you for sharing your fantastic video 😃
Buitiful workmanship WELL DONE BROTHER
Works fine as long as you live less than 3 miles from the transmitter!
To everyone finding something negative to say about this, find something better to do with your time. For the base/parabolic mirror, I used a slightly larger stainless bowl, but otherwise did exactly as shown in the video. It works great. I live outside of a big city, and with it pointed in that direction, I only have to move it for one out of 21 channels.
I've worked in electronics for many years I remember back when the old conventional televisions had sound separation at the third IF strip. Watched a big part tubes transitioning to solid-state. The antenna above that's being demonstrated works quite well anytime you're dealing with high frequencies it's amazing at little changes or tweaks that will make a difference. I wasn't at all trying to be negative just a little attempt at a sense of humor that didn't turn out so well. I'll be the first to tell you when dealing electronics when designing electrical circuits I've made some of the biggest mistakes going..as a matter of fact I use a similar design with my Wi-Fi for my gaming computer and by manipulating the link's of those elements you can obtain many different variations. You have my utmost apologies if you was offended in any way.
That is a 1/4 wave 800mhz whip with no directional qualities , in other words , a half of a 'rabbit ear' . you are only teaching people how to cut their fingers with a razor blade
The paper clip plugged into the back of a TV coax connector is a very old trick going back to B&W TV
Finding bad things to say is there time killing thing,,, ease off of their habits
Not so much negative as explaining that there are simpler and equally effective ways of doing this
wow this is brilliant thank you.
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Very useful. Thank you for sharing!
If you asked an art student to build a Yagi antenna, this is what you'd get. It looks cute, but any piece of metal would work just as well. Also, a few lessons in soldering and proper soldering iron maintenance would be good advice for this guy.
listen to you, obviously a pro at everything no doubt .why even bother commenting NO ALL
A sharper drill bit too, that thing had a hard time getting through a tin can.
@@MrMrgcool You mean Know all.
@@drampadreg1386 you mean "Mr Know It All" 😄
I was reading all the responses here and did not want to say anything. But since you did. A piece of wire would do as good (at a good length) most likely . They need to google yagi antenna and see it is a directional antenna. That might make a light bulb go off for them. I did not watch much of the video, I saw a yagi and the title and just started reading and laughing. Then hit ^F and typed yagi and saw your reply.. Thanks for the entertainment.
Very interesting. Thanks for your video.
I came across this video while researching FM antenna for my vintage Marantz receiver but I was shocked to see those Moroccan channels at the end of the video. 😅👍🇲🇦
Having the antenna in the line of sight of the transmitter is key to success. You can receive signals from far away if antenna and transmitter are high enough not to be affected by the curvature of the earth/
I took some cannabis and did not need an antenna.
Depending upon your location and how many stations are in your area, you can simply use an unfolded paper clip and put it in the cable jack on the back of the tv. Larger cities, more channels, smaller rural towns, not so much.
I had tried the paper clip but not sure what or how or why as it kinda did okay till a storm came through than I am unsure if I missed a step or am 🤔
@Black-Handed_Ice_ Gwiazda how does it really work
Atari and NES can be used as well 😘
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Or you could use Dad's rabbit ears. 😁 Really.
seriously thinking about cutting the cords and screw xfinity, at&t , dish, .... too expensive , but i wouldnt be able to get many channels i do watch by downgrading to an antanea , but it would sure help me financially, i do live in rural area, approx 20 miles from nearest city, great video, looks like an easy DIY if i choose to in the future , thank you
Great job. Very creative.
Best dry joints I've seen in a long time! It's called a parasitic aerial.
No, it is not a "parasitic array" (actual name). Not even close. This is a click-bait "antenna" which does not even work any better than a piece of wire stuck into the coax connector hole.
Damn! Looks like its time for a new drill bit!
and a sharpie, and a sharp pair of dykes, and some better soldering skills and a proper tool for stripping coax.. this video is nothing more than another come on to make money by the provider. It's hokey at best.
We used to do about the same with old HBO boxes. Put a piece of Aluminum foil on the coax, and slide it up or down until the signal came in.
Put a plug in tv antenna amplifier right at the antenna connection then the coax cable to it..works great
That sure is one blunt drill bit!
You should be able to use the cable coax running thru your attic or structure as an antenna buy using a cable signal booster to boost the signals picked up by the coax. I did that for a number of years to get TV signals from transmission towers that were 75 miles or more away and use it now to boost the signals picked up by a standard flat black plastic indoor antenna I've had mounted outside for the past four years. I'm using a Channel Master signal booster that I purchased at Lowes in 1985 to boost the cable signal in four long runs thru my home's attic to different rooms. It's been plugged into 110v since then and has yet to crap out. Must of been made in the USA!
That sounds about right.
An antenna is a "tuned" device. Running random wires in the attic will yield random results. For best results just spent $30 retail for an antenna.
Yeah I had the whole booster set in antenna and got two channels that was it my area didn't have hardly any channels it depends on where you live if you live in the city there's more towers if you live out in the mountains there's nothing
@@localfirealarm3767 I had cable ran to 7 rooms so might of had the right number of random lengths for tuning in the stations! Was surprised myself when I tried using an old pair of rabbit ears to see if that would bring any in.
@@keithmartin3914 I went ahead and bought a roof antenna with directional motor from Radio Shack to get more channels and wound up pulling in up to 54, depending on where it was aimed and weather/time of year. I'm in rural East Texas where it's hilly with most covered with trees. I lived on high ground so aimed the antenna where there gaps in the trees to get a decent signal. Got more stations when it was windy and even more during the Fall and Winter when the trees had no leaves.
WONDERFUL IDEA WISH I COULD BUY IT. THANK YOU.
Cool ! Like a professional.
That you are picking up signals is by sheer luck and sufficient signal strenght, not because the antenna does something useful. It looks very impressive with the tapered directors resembling a logper, and the dish reflector, but that doesn't do a thing. I think the directors pick up some frequencies because of their varying length. A real antenna which this project seems to resemble has a real feed point on the active element. And yes, the reflector and directors could have a shape like this and even soldered to a common conductor.
It looks like the center conductor of the coax is all that is touching the elements. Some Yagi-Uda antennas have insulated elements but this is a joke.
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Aluminum foil that we used in the seventies is what I use today. Works great.
Where do you find that now
Awesome invention sir! Can we purchase this from you?
I have done this with just a single metal paperclip.
You can use anything metal, as long as it touches the middle of the connector on the tv.
Depends how strong the signal is.
You can make an antenna with a fork it works just fine
A simple directional Yagi antenna. I don’t know about being the most powerful antenna, but it will work.
BTW, In a lot of cases just a simple length of bare wire will work good pretty good.
Nice video though.
@@321Andrew PROVE IT, LIAR!!
@@321Andrew Yeah, no kidding...dude needs to take a xanax...your comment had ZERO negativity..???
Very cute antenna. Cheers!
A bent wire works as well. But location has everything to do with it.
Been there, done that.
Man that’s one hell of an ink pen 🖊😆
seriously my thoughts watching the entire video
Thank you I'll try it.I was battling no more Dst TV
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A true yagi antenna has the alternate sides tied together for an amplification effect. What you have there is a piece of wire with smaller pieces of wire soldered to it. It's an antenna, albeit a poor one.
I agree. The first thing I noticed is this is WAAAY too small to be a TV antenna. The wavelengths would be much better for 2.4 Ghz wifi. The highest freq on the UHF TV band would need to be about 3 times as long as the biggest elements here - and all of the other channels would need to be even longer. My cable was out the other night and we really wanted to watch Jeopardy. All I needed was a 12" alligator lead clipped to the center conductor of the coax and re-scan for "antenna" and we got 38 channels.
Thats really no better than just doing the center element. Its an omni non directional antenna no matter what you tack onto it. If you want it directional the second longest element is where you connect the coax and the center goes to the left side and the outer braid goes to the right. Not sure if your element dimensions are correct either. It depends on the frequency you are trying to get. There are already designs and you just scale it to the frequency you want ( the center of all the channels you want to watch.) If you know the frequency it is that in HZ divided by 300000000 (300 million) and then divide that by 8 and that's the length of each side of that driven element I mentioned above. If you want to make one just as good as what you just did but way less difficult, divide by 4 and just strip that amount off the end of the coax and you have one as good as any indoor antenna you can buy. Just make sure the outer foil or weave does not short against the center wire. That's the only thing that can go wrong. Then just place in the best spot.
Thank you. Genius.
Need some fresh drill bits and a handle for that blade otherwise appreciate the info looking forward to building it
Nice video. Once I made a 2.4 gig parabolic wifi antenna using an aluminum snow sled, and an old 1 lb. coffee can (the wave guide) on a fixed tripod. Inside the can I mounted a 1.25 inch vertical antenna (the active element, with a coax connector), 1.25 inch from the rear of the can. Note: if you don't have the snow sled, make a parabolic dish or get an old Dish Network dish. The element (antenna ) should be in the focal point of the parabolic dish. The focal point math formula is: Radius squared divided by the depth X 4..
Focal Point Question please, is it
1. (R^2 / Depth) X 4
or
2. R^2 / (Depth X 4)
is it equation 1 or 2?
@@drd1924 Your 2nd option
If you are using a DirectV or Dish network reflector....keep in mind that while they are parabolic....they are only a section of a full parabolic dish. This means that the focal point is NOT in the center of the dish. Thats why the original feed is offset from the center. Pointing the feed at the correct focal point is very important, as is the pointing of the dish reflector itself. The center of the reflector is NOT where you point...for boresight.
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As far as I know, when I was in engineering class it was supposed to be different. I think UHF required a lot more area of antenna
Wavelength = Speed of Light/Frequency. L = C/F
@@huh4233 The most widely used formula to calculate the approximate overall length of wire required for a dipole is: 468 / frequency (MHz) = length of wire in feet.
@Xaphan Vassago The most widely used formula to calculate the approximate overall length of wire required for a dipole is: 468 / frequency (MHz) = length of wire in feet.
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It looks good ,I she'll try it , Thank you very much sir ,
this guy is the real life MacGyver.
Usually cable installers in my area like fresh cable and connectors. They tend to leave behind a lot of cable and components. I have always picked up those discarded items and saved them for "builds" like this.
is this like the over the air HD antenna's you buy at home depot with the 50 mile range? They didn't work on my TV since the nearest broadcast station is further away than 50 miles.
I am so doing this! If it works. Thanks man!
While the concept of the antenna is fine, it has core problems. Right behind the TV it’s not going to do anything. You would need it up higher like on a roof. It would also need to be larger, like 6 foot. If you drive around long enough, you will likely find a house with a proper antenna on its roof. There is a reason they are that size and a lot of actual science behind it.