...is made of cardboard and tinfoil.



Seriously, this thing outperforms every other indoor antenna I've tried, and the most expensive part is the $3 balun.

(It does get a little help from the old, non-working roof antenna. When it (the roof one) was turned during a storm I lost the two hardest-to-pick-up channels; turned it back, there they were.)

Here's where I got the plans for making it.

I think I'm going to try making one out of some thin wood & flashing, for added sturdiness. It's a bit too flimsy for my cats to be knocking into it a lot.

LeshLush wrote:

Every time a truck drove past out house...

I don't have to worry about that.




(But the wind turbines do screw up the signal occasionally)

LeshLush wrote:

Every time a truck drove past out house, we lost signal for 3 to 5 seconds.

sidewaydriver wrote:

Only downside is that some channels freeze for a sec when a car drives by.

If you guys have attic space ( or build a weather-proof version), to keep it above street level, you should try a Gray-Hoverman antenna:


I built this one for the living room area that gets the worst reception in the house.

Even though it's just sitting on the porch in an enclosed section and has trees and turbines between it and the broadcast towers, it still picks up every channel (the hard-to-reach one I mentioned earlier comes in a tiny bit static-y, still watchable when it's not storming).

Realistically, you're supposed to use exact measurements to pick up the highest-quality signal for the channel range you want to receive, but I just eyeballed the measurements for mine.