Coat Hanger HDTV Antenna!

Count me in as satisfied. I bought a scrap piece of wood at Home Depot for 50 cents and the Balun for 1.10 at Fry's. I never could get the PBS channels until now. I found the knife worked best for stripping with sandpaper as a cleanup. Also, don't space the left and rights to far apart since the Baluns have small leads.

hi Babblin5

thanks for your video. I built your antenna - I cleaned the entire coat hangers...you know where the two main vertical lines cross? -- not the bow tie parts but rather the two main verticals that connect it all. does it make a difference if they touch where they cross?

Add me to the list of satisfied users. Just bought a new Vizio today, built this thing while watching the 1st half of Georgia vs Georgia Tech in SD. Watched the 2nd half in stunning HD. Huge difference -- for free! Thanks!

Ther is only 19K of bandwidth available there is no way they will ever be able to do 1989p. 1080i is it and then there is no additional room for subchannels.

There is but the more sub channels they put out it degrades the quality of the main channel thats 1080i

i made one and i get all the philadelphia channels with signal in the 90s from lakewood nj. i tried a n 8 bay and had no luck increasing the signal. added foil strips tried everything but the simple 4 bay works best. i have no amp or anything

I have built many of these now. I have two of them 10ft off my roof phased together and I am getting stations that are 65 miles away. I have built one without the balun and it worked just as good. I used 12ga copper wire since I had some laying around. I also painted the board first, and siliconed over the screws, if the board soaks up rain it becomes a conductor and ruins your signal. I used 3/4" steel conduit to put them up and screwed 2 condit clamps screwed to the board to mount it.

I built one of these this week. Cost me nothing (I had the parts). I live in a small tv market that gets 9 HD stations. I get all 9 crystal clear. One amendment I'd make to the instructions--it can be very important how you position the antenna. It took me a an hour or so, using the signal meter on my tv, but I eventually found a sweet spot that brings in all of the channels. By the way, this works better than a hundred-dollar outdoor amplified antenna I bought.

Just saw this on CBC XD IT WORKED!

sorry, i meant for that to go to Rlnthndr