In message , Richard Clark
writes







When the band shift comes, rabbit ears could work quite well. Don't
take the plunge into elaborate designs until you have some basis of
comparison is all I am suggesting.

I would start with sticking a screwdriver in the TV antenna socket.

While a properly designed and constructed DTV antenna, mounted in the
right place, will undoubtedly work well, some of the homebrew designs
you find on the internet are probably even less efficient than a
screwdriver.
--
Ian