Showing posts with label antenna. Show all posts
Showing posts with label antenna. Show all posts

Monday, February 9, 2009

Home Build of UHF TV Antenna


The author of this article asks a pertinent question, "Why would anyone even want to build their own TV antenna?" The answer is twofold:
1. lower VHF TV channels are moving up to UHF during the digital conversion
2. this antenna gets a better signal to the TV than most commercially available antennas.

It is built out of easily-available parts and doesn't look like it takes any machine shop to make it happen. Anyone getting the gumption to make it happen, please report back here via comment.

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

WiFi heaven

People are always asking me if they can get amplifiers or some way to extend their WiFi connection or make it reach another building. There are many paths to nirvana in this dimension.

Here is a solution for needing to reach a little farther inside your house or to your patio.

Here is one solution for intermediate distance with a path to either locations in a line or one distant location.

Here is another solution, using the can antenna from the above solution as the launching pad to reach up to 10 miles if one of these antennas is used on each end.

Another, commercial solution is any of these antennas from a commercial company MFJ Enterprises, Inc. They also sell the connection cables to your WiFi box.

I hope this helps your efforts. You must have an external antenna with an antenna connection jack for the last three and the first one requires just an external antenna upon which to hang the directional reflector.