[BC] Repacking the TV band

[Leon D. Zetekoff]

On 6/29/2012 10:43 AM, James B. Potter wrote:
> Hey, if you really want to go for 'cool' I saw a design in an electronics
> magazine in the 1970s for a Fresnel TV antenna that used carefully arranged
> wooden slats for reflectors.  It was highly directional and tunable. It made
> use of the same phenomenon that produces 'ghosts' on the screen: multiple
> reflections, only in this case in-phase and coherent.  Always wanted to
> build one of those beauties!
>
>> I think I will try building this and see how it does in my apt.
> Everything here is on VHF.
>
> http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-make-a-fractal-antenna-for-HDTV-DTV-p
> lus-/?ALLSTEPS
at this point in my life I dont have the time nor desire to build things 
but prefer to buy off the shelf.  my current antenna is a DX DTA-3500 
active antenna. the one good thing about Lo-V is I canpickup harrisburg 
on many directions. With High V I have one in allentown and one in 
lancaster and two up in scranton. The allentown is religious but has a 
good signal. Lancaster NBC is good but the antenna directivity kicks in. 
All the rest are on UHF all over the place. So if I do replace this I 
need all three bands.

The other pet peeve is how the receivers scan and store. The vizios 
allow you to do a partial search but sometimes it seems even there it 
will erase things previously saved. There's no consistency on this IMHO.

Leon

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