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Digital TV Antenna Design
On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 21:59:13 -0800 (PST), Bill Bowden
wrote: Anybody have a good antenna design for the new UHF digital TV stations? I get reasonable results from my old VHF/UHF antenna (55% signal strength) , but it's big and ugly, and I want to replace it with a smaller, more efficient UHF design (maybe a Yagi) I can construct at home. Rule of thumb: The bigger and uglier the antenna, the better it works. Anybody know the dimensions of such an antenna, Various commercial digital TV antennas: http://www.hdtvprimer.com/ANTENNAS/comparing.html with Eznec NEC2 files at: http://www.hdtvprimer.com/SIMS/ probabaly in the frequency range of 400-800 Mhz ? There are going to be some DTV stations in the VHF range. You might want to check the new channels for your area: http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-07-138A2.xls List of frequencies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_broadcast_television_frequencies Note that the upper end of the UHF TV band will be channel 51 at 698Mhz. -- Jeff Liebermann 150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558 |
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