Most Powerful Antenna!

[vqlive]

straight Junk.... by a bowtie anttena

[TAurealius]

The company is out of business!!!

[algorithmical]

a "coyaxial" is Engrish for "coaxial"

[Moneymax3001]

We don't have a Home Depot or Ace Hardware to get a ground wire... if I dig deep enough can I maybe find a ground wire in my back yard?? And when is it best to plant these ground wires so i can have a nice little harvest of ground wires next year?? Imma gonna makea... lottz o money selling ground wires on eBay!!!! LOL maxwell

[RubiTrack]

Antennas don't have power......They have Gain

[brianto12]

scarborough!!!!

[Sharptooth100]

Incredible to say. I think I would go for something like that. How about the most powerful HDTV antenna dish at a 1500 mile radius.

[dsarti1]

this is a joke right?

[calcvids]

From ALL TV towers and repeaters? Including the 8 watt FM repeater 40 miles away on the same frequency as a 70kW local broadcast station? I THINK NOT.

[19psi]

"Most powerful antenna" gets a whole 12 channels! HAHA!

My Winegard 9032 on a rotator brings in over 60 channels ranging from 60 to 100 miles away.

Amazing how well ATSC works when you actually buy quality equipment, get on your roof and do the job right.

My FTA satellite dish setup adds about another 1,000 TV and Music channels from all over the world.

Antenna and dish setups, less than $500 combined. Monthly fee $0.

[gekkeabt]

We have 5 of that things and now we can access he world

[maloneable]

this old man knows how the universe work:)

[1MaskedMexican]

If I were older, and could get a job I would buy this.

[chronofusion]

it's COAXIAL CABLE line..I used to work for a cable company..please get it right.lol. when you say " coil" it sounds more coherent to talking about an electrical coil used to make magnets or something of the sort.

[Hellsconsort]

Whole metal fence haha. Pretty good Antenna! =)

[lustyboy9]

I have a metal plate in my head and drilled two holes in to connect a co-ax cable and can pic-up an extra 7 channels including cartoon network eh!

[niccomaker]

I think he is talking about coaxial cable.

[faxmanloveswaffles]

now just use a HUGE old fashion one and you prob get 100 channels LOL

[macattackblabbyit]

I'll stick with my 30 HD channel coat hangar antenna, thanks.

[tracemaster100]

@macattackblabbyit how... i have 3 antennas and a cable box divider hooked through 3 dtv amps and i only get 2 channels. i had 19 back when it was annalog. they may have been HD(Heavily Distorted) but i was just happy they came in. am i doing something wrong? i hope i dont have to go inside my lcd tv.

[macattackblabbyit]

@tracemaster100 Very simple. Some metals just pick up signals better than others. It all relies on how well your antenna's can "catch" signals coming in. Coat hangers just so happen to have a very recitative metal in them. Also, if you wish to increase your signal quality, shorten the length of that ridiculously long cord. Think of electricity. The longer the wire goes, the lesser amount of power is received. Hope this was a help ;)

[tracemaster100]

@macattackblabbyit yes!!! thank you. i finally got 9 channels. thats 7 more than what i started with. im happy. thanx again!!! :D

[chitons21]

@macattackblabbyit Sir, I don't want to disrespect anyone but your statement about some metals picking up signals better than others is nonsense. I love the word you made up, "recitative". If you don't mind, I plan on using that next time I get drunk in a bar to see how many people laugh. I also had to laugh when you suggested that he"think of electricity" regarding cable length. What else would he think of, water? The signal that comes down the wire IS electricity.

[macattackblabbyit]

@chitons21 What surprises me is that this bullshit nonsense actually worked for this fellow.

[nrobsoekim]

from what i can see it is cofee can on linear dish? ok idea, but just not right. parabola make great natural amps but they only work in direct line of site meaning complicaded math and instalation to get 1 station at a time (if ur off a few < u get none ). you would have to get it up high enuff to avoid any obsticals and the curvature of the earth, any time you want to watch another station climb up and fine tune the Azimuth and the skew. hope you good with balence and have no fear of hieghts

[ArtemRomanov]

You named this video false. Better to say: "Most Powerful Antenna in my neighborhood"

[ptf46]

and i forgot if you dial up the flux capacitor you could actualy pull in some stations from the moon the programing there is great mostly the government dosent want you to know about it because they want to keep it all for them selves. your dish uses 13 to 18 volts depending on the transponder and if you can pull in the left and right polarity your set i have even see HBO from the moon station. dont waste your money on these junk antennas just buy yagi with an amp and a rotor,

[ptf46]

I am dish tech. now i had a man tell me at his house in payne ohio he pulled in a local station with his 40 ft antenna from texas. I dont know if its true he said it lasted 1 hour. i have heard of solar flairs carrying uhf vhf signals long distances. but as far as this dish its junk in order to pull in stations you would have to climb up there and turn it every time you wanted a new station

[gccengineering1996]

A great solution for HDTV. Does this work in apartment buildings?

[filmnet]

@gccengineering1996 This is a rubbish solution for HDTV. It uses "spilateral" technology. A made up word. No aerial can be "worlds most powerful" for UHF/VHF (TV/FM) *and* SW. This company advertise in old people's magazines in order to con old folk into buying it. A cheap 10 element Yagi would work much much better.

[gccengineering1996]

@filmnet I checked out the website, the site is down and does not exist anymore. You're right about that. A cheap 10 yagi would work much better.

[crazyfox266]

@Krisemertson xDD

[urbex2007]

@Krisemertson it's a special RF experiment, he has cophased the tree!

[spunker88]

Dishes are made for high frequencies used by satellite TV and not the lower frequencies of UHF and even lower VHF. For UHF the bowtie and for VHF the bunny ears are the proper antenna lengths. Outdoor antennas use both lengths on them.

[DoofNoofem]

Unless the dish diameter is multiples of the target wavelength, there's no point in using a parabola; a flat wire-rod or wire-mesh reflector is better as it has less wind-resistance. The spacing between the reflector and receiving-element should be dictated by the average (if not exact) wavelength being used and not by the design of the satellite dish being cannibalized. I can just imagine what a mess the elements are. This antenna design is a joke...(continued...damned text limit)...

[DoofNoofem]

@DoofNoofem

Also, I'm assuming most, if not all the channels come from the CN Tower, and from Scarborough, just about any antenna pointed the right way will pick those up. Try pointing that gizmo across the lake to the US and see what you get. In Oshawa, I can get all the Toronto stations and most of the Buffalo stations with a "Silver Sensor" clone indoor antenna. Seriously, I'd be willing to bet that just about ANY cheap commercial antenna would outperform that thing in a side-by-side test.

[CCRider100]

@animerewind1980

"And any antenna designer knows that to get the most out of an antenna ya need to have it as high as possible" Wrong, this not a 100% factual statement in ALL circumstances. Yes for LOS, higher is almost always better, but throw a few 1-2 edge signals into the mix, and it gets a bit more complicated. TV signals that have bounced off the earths surface 1-2 times, are not so reliable with regards to the higher is ALWAYS better motto. Sometimes lower is the sweet spot.

[nicoargca]

Go Toronto!!!

[jdb83xl]

ghey !!!

[calmoves]

12 Channels? Don't you think thats too much work for 12 channels.

[afiftv]

can someone tell me what is the black thing on the plate? is it a bottle or somethin?

[cybhunter007]

its a reciving horn. In a nutshell, the Dish is a Parabola, meaning that the signals are all foucused onto it

[tutorial15]

Not need receiver

[msskimbot]

What about satellite transmissions... There you overcome the earth's curvature problem. I remember when I used to get channels all around the world with my gigante satellite dish. Remember those?

[vacuumtubeTV]

Uh, sporadic E and tropo Ducting make Vhf travel hundreds if not thousands of miles.

[edwardrock619]

hey i can intenet my psp

[Dummerd]

Not impossible at all. VHF/UHF world recods are near 1500 miles under the right conditions.

Look up a TV/FM DXing site.

[orange70383]

yep, right skip conditions and you can pick-up other countries. When I was little I woke up one Saturday morning to watch tv and a Canadian station was on, about 900-miles away. perfect picture for a couple hours. DX tv

[jjc032681]

@orange70383 Ya, I'm not sure if CB radio signals travel the same way or not..but, I remember my grandfather (in NY) picking up chatter from South Carolina

[fancysnake1]

@Dummerd Who said anything about him getting anything even more then 100 miles? YOU PEANUT.

[compwiz878]

@Dummerd way back in the mid to late 80s we had a tv antenna to get tv stations but on good conditions we could get a lot of dx tv reception for exampt wtbs atlanta ga was a good station to get but there where alot of other stations that would come in on local stations channels at times  takeing over local stations signals when conditions wheer extremely good . then in the early 90's we got cable on my road and even then at night some ota stations signed off

[compwiz878]

@compwiz878 signed off for the night mostly wheer the public broadcast stations we got on cable one of them is wnpb westvirginia public broadcasting that was on ch 24 via ota a toledo ohio station would come realy clear at times the fade in and out

[1MaskedMexican]

@Dummerd This is not dxing its the xium dish antnnea

[1DanielChristensen]

yes it will work great but will require good aiming and will have to be adjusted for each station and esp. for each city. And 50 miles is nothing. I get almost 100 miles and Syracuse which is almost 60 miles with ANY antenna cause I'm in a good location.

[loboxtech]

its a basic form to have a good gain from analog TV. this is a prime-focus antenna and are great to gain any signal (incluides the wi-fi signals)

[artifactingreality]

Wow you came back from the dead just to sell TV aerials?

[polypolyman]

parabolic is always the right thing to do - channel master had it right with the 4251 - shame they don't make it anymore :(

[ATLien174]

LMAO! I get over 30 channels, and from stations 90 miles away, with the home made antenna I built!!!

[youmanalex]

I get 48 channels!

[1DanielChristensen]

@youmanalex prove it; I want to see that; 48 channels.

[Vagextrol]

1DanielChristensen, 100 miles ??

Earth curvature does not permits you to go further than 60-70 miles.

What planet you live on? ..must be bigger than Earth.

Look on wikipedia.

[1DanielChristensen]

yes, vagextrol; I get Watertown from Penn Yan, New York; look at a map of New York; I drew lines illustrating my local and all the cities I get; it's on my latest video; I can get 50-60 miles with a piece of wire. so fuck you!!!!! lol

[youmanalex]

well i dont have a camera so i cant really make a vid of it but even if i did, i wouldnt make a vid just to to show u

[london1817]

Hey man,,,I need to build an antana. How did you build your antana? Thanks.

[ATLien174]

I built the "Double" hanger antenna. I used the single antenna ideak found hear on youtube, and made a double version of it.

[oblak99]

just watch! don't talk too much..

[Unguidedone]

where can i get one of these becuse i live in the middle of no where and most cable/internet services are not avaible for me

[WalkingHD]

analog wont go off until a little bit yet, there is just far too many people to convert and when they do flip that switch they want to make dam sure that everyone is DTV ready otherwise ratings for shows are going to fall because no one can watch it. Its going to be a slow slow process.

[zongchips]

oh man...oh boy...12 channels...and still proud... i am amazed...haha there's nothing special in this video...he bought an antenna...he attached it to his tv....(a big one) haha and bothered to post it in you tube....i pity you...

[iamxeddiex]

haha 12? I get 37 Full Hd 1080p perfect quality channels in sarasota fl, i do installs.

[robborob1232]

u just need a converter box for like £10 or $15 if you will

[rep0eagle]

that wont work after june...analog is going off

[imarelebored1]

not in canada

up here its gunna go in 2010 sometime

[paranormal33]

What's a "coyaxial coil"??

[ATLien174]

Ya know? LOL

[hanrickjones]

@paranormal33

the regular wire that u connect at the back of ur tv provided by ur cable service provider

[PhobiaGuy]

@paranormal33 maybe something you sodder (USA) or solder in English! it might even be nucular (G W BUSH) powered, lol! people need to be more pacific hahahahahahahahahahaha!

[zeromanthebest]

@paranormal33 google Coaxil cable ....and then google about Antennas so you will understand about Coil part....hope with this you will understand more.. peace

[zac856314]

@paranormal33 Cable line. it is a fancy word for cable wire

[KolerikRocks]

Sir, A Coxial cable can carry a cable or digital cable signal, or if u wanna watch free HD channels scan your tv for free channels. It's the lowest possible connection @ 480 interlaced

[angryadrien]

three important words for the cameraman....GET A TRIPOD!

[lukeslandspeeder]

cool but i want one that can pick up real deep space stuff.

[azxsdcvfgb77]

it doesn't matter how powerful it is.... it's size and direction matters, if you have a powerful one that isn't direct, it will get interference.

[y00n1x]

Not true, I transmit on my antenna all the time. (amateur radio) and the background radio noise I believe is the tv set to which has connected the dish/antenna.

[airwolf2374]

did you buy this antenna or did you make it. if you made it, what all did you use to make it. what it the piece at the end that picks up the single?? thanks

[logistix1111]

This will work good in a metropolitan area until February 2009. That little tv doesn't have a DIGITAL tuner inside it. You'll need to stick a big antenna on your roof and get a signal booster if you live in the country. If the tv doesn't have a DIGITAL TUNER inside it, you can get an EXTERNAL digitanl tuner from Best Buy using a government coupon.

[briansled]

what is direct tv? i know what directv is.

[dnave21]

i suggest taking a ground rod hamering it about 3 feet and run ground cable to it it works great.

[itakeyourphoto]

Sorry to say that your antenna is good for nothing.. those channels you are getting you would get with a wet string tied to your finger hahahaha.. You explained to someone that it works on the cantenna principle? wrong again as that can is nowhere near large enough to accomodate VHF or UHF tv band. At those frequencies that can stops the rf from travelling down the tube to the coil if there is one in there. Any antenna even a simple dipole will whip your antenna, Sorry but thats the truth..

[badmoonrising4]

direct tv or dish net tech, QC (Quality Control)... LMFAO

[techphy100]

I work for Yoda Zeight Blue Za Signalweiy on Carfeignhoy and if you add another cable you'll get R two D two radio talk show.

[heretic30176]

Yes. A metal fence, with stakes into the ground, is in fact a grounding point.

And this is just the television use of a well used concept called a cantenna. Google it and stop spouting your ignorance, it's infectious.

[delijesever035]

its not aproved gounding point for any kind of antenas

[Arow27]

Wrong, Im a Dish Net tech and if I dont grond all the jobs I go fix / Install, Its auto Fail QC and I get backcharged for not Grouding!

[radiorob1]

Coaxial "Coil"????

Its called Coaxial "cable"!!

Also, just throwing a hunk of wire on the roof, and connecting it to that same coax, would work just as well.

Why don't you learn what your talking about, before you start giving out advice?

Don't be fooled folks!

[beaner0000]

radiorob has a good point. And a dish is usually a bad ant. unless you acually use it for a SAT.

[Gamernotnerd]

I have a TV just like that, Sansui? PM me.

[oPeNpLAiNs]

***DONT WASTE YOUR TIME FOLKS!!!***

1st off! If your ground is not bonded to your house electrical. It isn't grounded properly, and now you're getting into insurance matters if something does happen... 2nd I've seen coat hangers work from a couple miles away, and anything more than 5-10 miles depending on terrain, you need a real antenna. This is coming from someone who has professionally installed satellite, cable, and antennas for 12 years! 90% of my job is fixing stuff like this!

[CCRider100]

@oPeNpLAiNs

"I've seen coat hangers work from a couple miles away, and anything more than 5-10 miles depending on terrain, you need a real antenna"

The key words are "depending on Terrain". Good OTA reception is "location" dependent, your homes height above sea level and obstructions between your antenna and TV towers can make all the difference. I get all the local stations (9-38 miles) with speaker wire for antenna. The website tvfool.com provides a great free resource for budding OTA'ers

[gccengineering1996]

Sounds like something that we all need for the DTV 02/17/09 transistion cause most of the DTV signals are very difficult to get. The antenna looks good there. Will there be any plans for this antenna soon?

[peterklate]

THATS SO COOL

[Kargaroc286]

imagine the DXing possibilities!

[BernieLJ77]

I just had a thought about this, as I saw the "Digest" reply message that came to my e-mail inbox, looking at this, he talks about mounting it on the building there, and I was wondering if he just didn't "tap into" the neighbors, if they weren't home ha ha ha...

[rep0eagle]

using an outdoor antenna without proper grounding from lightning is just a disaster waiting to happen. Soon as theres a lightning storm its gonna strike the dish and go straight through the wire to your tv. Then kaboom!

[Douglascs83]

That would be a disaster! Are 12" tvs replaceable?

[rufousme]

even with proper grounding if the antenna receives a direct hit and the tv's connected its still gonna go boom.

[rep0eagle]

Yeah but lightning is like playing the lottery, you never know when its gonna strike. It's still better to be safe then sorry.

I've seen an antenna get hit and the current goes right through the coax all the way to the TV and then you see a blue zap in the screen. Next you'll smell smoke/and or see a fire.

It's better to get it professionally installed unless you know what you're doing....

[BernieLJ77]

Of course, now that I've gone digital, I get 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 9.1, 9.2, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3, 20.4 and 20.5 from Wausau, WI, and channels 13.1 and 13.2 from Eau Claire, WI.

[BernieLJ77]

Notice he stated that the antenna location, the tree, was a temporary location, and I'm assuming that the 12 TV stations that he's picking up are local TV stations, because I don't think that it would work too well where I'm located, around 40 miles from the nearest TV station, and around 75 miles from the next nearest TV station, so I'm using a 90-mile antenna, and a 120-mile antenna just to get TV Channels 7, 9, and 20 from Wausau, WI, and Channel 13 from Eau Claire, WI.

[Kargaroc286]

that's insane. you will need a satellite dish for that.

[BernieLJ77]

Satellite dish for what? What I was talking about were "regular" "Broadcast" "Over-The-Air" TV signals, and my other reply was talking about the Digital TV converter Box," so I don't know why I'd need a satellite dish for that.

I was talking about Digital TV, not High Definition from the Cable TV or Satellite company, and Public TV already has a "DTV" or Digital TV HD or High Definition TV station, and here it's 20.5, on one receiver, 20-5 on my other DTV receiver, connected to UHF antennas.

[BernieLJ77]

Of course, if this guy was talking about satellite TV signals, then that's different, and I'd have to watch his video again, because I thought that maybe he was talking about local, over the air, TV signals, and you might not need much of an antenna if you lived in a big city that has TV stations covering all of the networks.

[capridrifter]

In about a year or so its going to be useless since there all going digital....Unless it can be used for a radio or something...

[Dexmon12]

its coaxial

[Angelisv]

Even Better coaxial cable which consists of the following:

A: outer plastic sheath

B: copper screen

C: inner dielectric insulator

D: copper core

YEahhhhhh team

[satelliteDNScastip]

this is a super excellent video!!! thanks for upload and make more please!!!sir...

[elfranz]

I think you're clearly right, but according to your "-5", people always like being ignorant...

[elfranz]

crap...

[jwicks1989]

a fence is not going to ground a freakin dish retard. coax coil? do you mean coax cable maybe haha.

[BernieLJ77]

It might, if the metal fence has metal posts going deep into the ground, maybe 8 feet or so, but the ground wouldn't be the best, but he's probably demonstrating what you could do to temporarily watch TV out in the yard, if "rabbit Ears" wouldn't work. By the way, I use coax cable to connect to my two-way CB radio, and coaxial cable to connect my digital to analog TV converter box to my TV.

[BernieLJ77]

I one time connected a wire to a metal fence to get great Shortwave signals on my shortwave receiver, which was a 10-band Wards Airline back in the mid-70's and I used a water pipe that went into the ground, through the basement wall to get my ground ha ha ha...It's an "experiment" you might say.

[artisticass]

ezeric....what is that about "or your money back" about are you charging to make us one or the plans, what is the decibal rating?? If is better than 35db, then I am interested.

[izatt82]

what freq is this tuned for or built for?

[motorwizjay]

i would have figured out how to hookup the coax to the tv..how to build the dish would have been usefull...doy...and what does he call coax cable?

[ChempediaTV]

turn the sound off on the tv while your talking! otherwise nice vid though!

[iseemedia]

"Powerful" isn't what you should say - best performance is better - the antenna can't transmit so isn't powerful. Great video tho :D

[EterniaRz]

GReat guide HAIL OLD MAN!

[frogman296]

COOL