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Old December 24th 03, 05:16 PM
Jonathan Epstein
 
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Default jury-rigging radio antenna for HDTV use?

Hi,

I'm sorry if I'm in the wrong newsgroup, but you folks seem to know
more about antennas than anyone else on usenet.

The previous owner of my house installed a fairly substantial roof
antenna for radio reception, because his favorite FM radio station was
50 miles away. Here's a pictu
http://epsteinmania.com/jonathan/public/antenna.jpg

I now would like to receive HDTV off-the-air programming at my house.
It turns out that I will need to add about a 60-foot cable run to use
this existing antenna, but it seems that this would be the most
practical method. I'm actually in a pretty good TV reception area ...
when I typed my address into antennaweb.org, it says
that I only need a "small multidirectional antenna":
http://www.antennaweb.org/aw/yellow.asp


So my questions a
1) can I jury-rig this existing antenna for HDTV OTA reception?
AND
2) how do I do it? E.g., to what part of the antenna do I attach an
RG6 cable, and what adapters if any are necessary.

TIA,

Jonathan