Understanding Amplifiers, At Least a Little.
If you browse through this site, you’ll find a number of articles that tell you that amplifiers cannot amplify that which is not there but that they can help you get your signal to your…
Read MoreIf you browse through this site, you’ll find a number of articles that tell you that amplifiers cannot amplify that which is not there but that they can help you get your signal to your…
Read MoreThis is the last article in the series of bow tie (BT) antenna tests. In this test, the angle used, or put another way, the separation distance between the two ends of the BT “V,”…
The Stealth Hawk Antenna Gedanken (Thought) Evaluation The Stealth Hawk Antenna is made from a single 60” (5’) long piece of wire. The design I used as my template was: [VHF-UHF07-51] The top section was…
Recently I learned that the FCC is proposing to change a few things in the personal radio service. Some History: At one time, the only free personal radio service was the CB (Citizen Band) radio…
With the change to DTV we ended up with “Virtual” Channels what are these? The “real” channels are the channels the TV stations are using to transmit on. Back before HDTV, the channel number told us…
Let’s go over a few things about dipole antennas that I have picked up while being an amateur radio operator. I will start with what is known and go from there. I will then apply…
This antenna was an extension of an idea I had back in 2002, and had an article published about the precursor antenna in Popular Communications, in January 2003: “Phil’s Easy Way To Improve Your UHF TV Reception.”…
I was given an antenna by a family member who didn’t want it any longer: It is the RCA, ANT 140. The label said: Thomson Consumer Electronics, Deptford NJ 08096-2088. I don’t know who the…
The location of the antenna is one of the most important elements of signal reception for radio waves. DTV is using the same frequencies for the stations as before except that channels below 7 are no…
Description: The device is sold for ~ $32 at Solid Signal without any coax. King Controls SureLock SL1000 Digital TV Signal Finder (SL-1000) from Solid Signal The claims are: LED lights indicate where DTV signal…
This article originally appeared in 2013 but has been extensively updated. I will try to give some basic information about what each of these things is, when to use them, and when not to use…
Earlier this month, March 2016, a fellow ham radio operator who is also interested in UHF TV antennas, contacted me to tell about his experiments with his Pennyloop antenna design. His site is, http://www.pennyloopdesigns.com and you can…
If you go online to any number of TV sites (TVFool, antennaweb, or hdtvprimer), you will be told which antenna has better gain and/or which antenna should work in your area. Gain is not the…
I was looking at the “Understanding CEA Antenna Marks for Outdoor Antennas” page on the Solid Signal site, located here: Understanding CEA Antenna Marks for Indoor/Outdoor TV Antennas when I read what seemed to me to…
Back in the winter of 2013-14, we had some very big ice storms here in the Washington, D.C. / Baltimore area, which took out a large number of branches and a few trees as well….