I just had to share this. Partly because I think it's a little funny and partly because I think it's ingenious. We have never had cable or dish TV. We've relied on an antenna on each TV to improve reception. We tried all kinds of antenna: regular rabbit ears, one that looked like a halo and one that looked like bat wings. They worked pretty good for a while but the stations would cut out once in a while so they weren't very reliable.
Now we have upgraded to digital TVs and THIS:
THIS is our new antenna and although it looks a little space-age, it works GREAT!! My husband made one of these antennas for our oldest son's TV in the basement and for our TV in the family room. He soldered wire - copper & electrical,
attached copper wires to a dowel with zip ties,
And added an attachment to hook it up to the TV.
He followed most of the instructions he found on the Popular Mechanics website
www.popularmechanics.com/technology/how-to/tv/build-your-own-digital-tv-antenna
He never really follows all the directions in any project he does - he says he modifies them to make them better. When you look at the plans on line,
the changes he made were that he soldered the wires together instead of placing them on washers and instead of taping the wires so they wouldn't touch, he just wrapped them around the wooden dowel (see pictures above).
I don't know that we'll ever get cable or dish TV. We don't watch a whole lot of TV anyway but it sure is nice when we do watch, that the picture comes in CLEAR!
"Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler." -Albert Einstein
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