As a TV Antenna Specialist of over 40 years, this guy must think everyone is stupid. There is NO WAY that would work for terrestrial TV. For a start it is NOT an antenna, just a few bits of metal poorly soldered together. For an antenna to work you can't just solder a few bits together like this, you have to have fairly precise measurements for the length of the elements and they need to be centre isolated, not grounded to get a 'flow' of signal. Even IF this worked, it would have a gain of ZERO, far from the Most Powerful Antenna around. An average antenna for TV has a gain figure between 4 and 9 db. An old wire coathanger cut approx 3/4" either side of the centre will have a gain of 0db with an output impedance of roughly 300 ohms (so use a two wire balun to connect it to coax cable) and will be bi-directional. It will work over a frequency range from around 170 - 220 mHz but centred around 185 mHz. You still need to be close to the transmitter for it to work. I have seen a YAGI antenna made with coathangers and if done correctly it would yield about 3db gain. Booster Amplifiers are unnecessary if you have a good signal and you should always strive for maximum signal from the antenna before adding amplifiers because they will introduce thermo-electric noise into the signal and in some cases may actually make it worse, not better.
Performance is what your argument should be based..as old school attenna wire clothes hanger wire worked fine..there's even gadgets that turn ones house wiring into attenna
This is partially true...as a Ham radio operator I know that what you said about the different measurements to be correct, but ONLY if you are broadcasting. For receiving, the elements can be any length that you wish them to be.....you will still receive a signal no matter what the length of them are, unless you are in an area where you can't pick up tv signals at all due to being in a valley between 2 mountains.
This is a load of crap. You're in a strong signal area so an itty bitty antenna is able to get you some channels. That doesn't mean the antenna is good.
Being a electronics technician for over 40+yrs with some engineering EXPERIENCE This thing he shows as "The most powerful antenna on earth" IS B.S. the size of the antenna he shows is cut for a much higher frequency. Also the best antennas have a rf high gain amplifier located as close to the antenna you can get it. Never put a amplifier at the TV . If the antenna is 50ft. Or more from the antenna the signal is weakened by the long run of coaxial cable .(better coax less loss) You want the signal boosted at the antenna to get a good signal at the TV.
100% agree! This guy must have thought that making diminishing lengths of shiny things would make it LOOK cool and therefore must true. In actuality the elements he soldered on, to an incoming signal, just looks like a larger lump of metal. The parabolic portion (bottom of a can) was a nice touch. Adds to the cool factor. But has nothing to do with enhancing a signal in the bands he purports to be receiving. And hopefully people caught the fact that you never actually SEE him make the connection from his trinket to the TV. You see one end of some coax being connected and then you see him connecting his 'device' to an end of some coax. Obviously someone off-camera is turning off and on a signal from cable or from a real antenna. Overall, just another click-bait video to get money from CZcams. Jokes on him.. I use an ad-blocker on CZcams so he won't make a dime off my view.
As a retired cableguy. Award for worse F-connector install, depending on distance to transmitter, a paperclip could give you a picture that good. No documentation to show what is connected to the TV. The reflector doesn't work for the frequencies that TV signals are broadcast on,, much less the active elements. Total fail.
When I was 10 years old, I did not have a 90's TV dish. I saw a neighbour's antenna and thought that the dish was damaged. I cut the cable wire and took out the copper wire from it and made small circles from it. I also brought an aluminium wire which was for power supply, I cut that wire... I connected circles of copper wire to it. I hung it on the wall behind the TV...but did not make any wire connection to the TV.. A few days later when it rained, that same TV and the channels of the neighbour's TV started coming automatically. My childhood memories are the best on my TV. free tv
I think a coat hanger would work just as well in your area. You seem to be building a directional antenna and you pointed it towards the ceiling instead of the transmitting tower.
@@hipairbrush1053When I saw that he incorporated a dish into his design, I knew that he was full of it. In order for him to see any gain in the VHF and UHF, he would need to have at least a 8ft dish for the UHF and a dish of gigantic proportion for the VHF and a waveguide feed for those frequencies.
It's great, but I think it is more of a proof of concept to show that its not that hard. I think this would be a great design if scaled up for a longer range. Good job
Looking at the lengths of the elements, I'd say the antenna is cut for around 1300 to 1500 MHz, not TV frequencies. It looks like a log-periodic wideband design but has no second boom to complete it. And what makes it 'the most powerful'? For all we know the TV transmitter could be very close, so almost any piece of wire would work!
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It‘s for 900, 1800 and 3600 MHz, so it may be intended as a UMTS/2G antenna.
yeah it looks like a Log Periodic but it's not! Log Periodic are fed from the short elements end with a series of pairs of single elements one up one down alternating polarity spaced relative to wavelengths thay are good for reflection Cancelling in a strong signal area! Mathematics are needed to make one that works properly!
You can do that with a length of wire, as well as talk to the ISS. This is a yagi with a directional dish behind it. It'll go far, but your broadcast area is miniscule.
We live 40 miles from any tower and our antenna blew down. Too dark to set it back up so I though bummer,no ME TV tonight but it was working. I went to the roof and the cable pulled out and there was around an inch of the wire sticking out of the coax and I was getting all the channels with that little bit of coax as I could with my antenna. I guess you dont really need a high priced antenna after all.
Common sense the range might not be so great. But it works and he demonstrated that. Don't be a hater, CZcams is about ideas and possibilities. Especially for d.i.y. ers. So appreciate that someone shared an idea. Don't be so quick to condemn it!
when i was in the us air force 50 yrs ago i was a hf radio transmitter repairman and they had huge rotating log periodic with a yagi array antenna which had a long boom of about 25 ft. and was about 60 ft. high. we also had rhombic antenna.
Me, too. But I was in the Army. We had Yagi, LPs and we even had portable LPs, they were only 40 though, the fixed were 80. We also had loops and of course the old favorite dipoles and all of them. Not 50 years ago for me, just 43, lol
@@grandduke2145 the big antennas were used for radio communications with the B-52s armed and in the air over europe back in the late 60's. i was at a base in turkey.
@@steveperry1344 Steve I had the same job when I was stationed in Turkey. We did the SSB HF to the 5th fleet if I remember correctly. We had a greater array of antennas and equipment in the Special Ops. But we had either 10 or 20 kw transmitters in Turkey. We had an entire field acreage of different antennas. We had a AF antenna guy assigned too.
I have calculated the antenna frequency, it may work somewhat good at 900, 1800 and 3600 MHz, so it may be good for 2G and maybe UMTS but not optimal for television. Edit: Should also work on 2100 MHz. I can imagine, that this design originally was intended as a mobile antenna, not a TV antenna.
It would be to directional to be mounted on anything mobile. Back in the early 90s when the cellular business was just taking off I had a business on the side where the local,cellular company company would recommend me to their customers have mobile problems. People would put real high gain antennas on their vehicles and loose their signal on a hill because of the narrow horizontal beam. My last position before retirement we had 15M satellite antennas.
This antenna would count as an endfed with some tubes hanging on the active element. The size of the parabolic reflector is probably usable for frequencies above 100 GHz or so, but definately not if it is oriented like that. Practically, this is not a working antenna more than any random piece of wire.
My first flat screen TV. a 13" "Michael Scott" type Phillips. I stuck a paper clip into the type f female on the back and pulled in 10-15 local channels picture perfect.
I am not an engineer but indoor antennas are subject to indoor interference. You can move a chair and interfere with your reception, so the best antennae is an outdoor with less interference but a bird could send you on a bad trip........
If you live close to the main transmitter towers within most any metropolitan area you can save yourself a lot of money not having to buy all those RCA connectors. Simply take a short piece of coax strip one and with about 4 to 6in of bare copper. Tape it to the wall or to a window in the general direction of your local television transmitters and do a simple channel scan. You'll probably get the same results and save yourself a lot of time.
Even you hav only 1meter what ever wire you have,,,its very clear if you are in the circle of city...but if you are in province,,it is not working ...promise
Danny Pitman your comment is exactly right ,im using small bare copper wire in the province of Philippines and i have same result .now a days most tv station had a strong RF OUTPUT in every corner we can receive incoming tv channels celpon too can receive tv station using earphones.
If they work that good then you should think about selling them on e-bay. But you would want to give a 30 day money back guarantee just in case somebody isn't happy with it. I would buy and try one though.
@@lynnespringer1513 …and it’s really cool…just saying…there are bigger aluminum cans that can easily be fitted into this genius idea… look at the huge Fosters Lager cans, we called them depth charges at the English Pub I worked for during Uni. Also, I have been to small parties where the host served Heineken Mini kegs at his tableful of alcohol drinks…
Wouldn't it be so much easier to etch the elements onto a PC Board and build a little LNA right on the same copper-clad board at the feed-point of the array, and attach something like an SMA connector onto the board ? That way you could actually use all the little design basics to acquire F/B ratio, Gain, and impedance matching of a half-wave dipole with a reflector behind it, and numerous parasitic directors in front. With proper design software, and a good VNA, I'm betting you could get AMAZING gain and directionality/rejection from an array less than a foot long. That would put the specs of this one to shame... Make that 'reflector' a parabola and place the array at the focal point to tighten the pattern a bit more, and it might just be awesome, but wouldn't you want to point the array BACK at the parabola to have it function that way ? I'm actually considering brewing one of these for Bluetooth freqs so I have less dropouts in my wireless devices. The completed unit could then be encapsulated for ruggedness and protection from the elements. I like the idea of using the telescoping antenna for the elements, but those could also be attached to an etched Copper-Clad board and be MUCH easier to solder and keep aligned, and gain the bandwidth of the round elements... Just a thought...
I like it I have a question why didn't you make the coaxial cable longer on the antenna then using some stuff wire made a spring wrapped around and attached it on the back of TV facing up be portable
He connected his home made antenna, he is indoor and pointed it above and suddenly his TV is receiving a (digital) TV signal. Must be getting his signals from heaven. Lol. Ok, ok maybe the TV broadcasting station is just nearby his house... try this if you are in some remote rural area and let's see if it will still work.
@@SarathRoyal777 I get digital signals pretty good using a similar method in a somewhat rural area. Still not as good as I like but I don't use a decoder
like the man said. we can all say what we want but he got over a million hits. we all know it's stupid but we still watched it out of curiosity. it'll get you every time. lol.
NO CIRCUIT FLOW at elements connected to center dish wire without connecting ground at that point! Not to mention wrong size elements to receive proper local frequencies.
Is it possible to get C band signals of 4 feet into 2 feet dish Coz 4 feet dish can be install on terrace floor only. Whereas 2 feet dish can be install on wall
Can you make a phone antenna for vehicle travel? Easy to make easy to use portable? the frequencies are the difficult part, because the transmitters and receivers have to all be almost on a chip board for antennas nowadays. I like the concept or at least the possibility. The phone antenna for 700 or the most used frequencies would be really a good video
That's you just being next to broadcast antenna, your design can only pick UHF and has very little gain, there's not even a VHF element in this design.
No offense. There must be a digital converter box behind from analog signal if capturing by-air signal thru tv antenna unless some tv broadcast station is still analog. Thank you for the video.
I remember, we were in a remote location in Saudi Arabian desert. 1000 kms from Ras Al Khaima 750 from Qatar. And all we did was to take those pie dishes and put one end of a cable and the other into a 2nd hand old model black and white tv whose name too I don't remember now, and watched movies. The other alternative was the tin wire hangers from the laundry. Worked fine for us.
If this were real he would've carefully calculated a focal point. He just soldered the parts on, and he doesn't know how to solder. Also, when he unplugged the video still ran without the antenna.
In Canada he is right you can do this and get basic tv and not have to pay for it but it's only three channels give or take on where you live I can only pick up two channels you're doing this
@@DigitalSatPro Technically you are correct, but then so would a four-inch nail. Why do you think it is the 'most powerful', when a properly-designed and built Yagi would be much better?
Esta antena só pega os canais dentro da cidade onde tem tores de tv fora da cidade ela não pega canal nenhum porque está antena é pequena e tem pouca potência
As a TV Antenna Specialist of over 40 years, this guy must think everyone is stupid. There is NO WAY that would work for terrestrial TV. For a start it is NOT an antenna, just a few bits of metal poorly soldered together. For an antenna to work you can't just solder a few bits together like this, you have to have fairly precise measurements for the length of the elements and they need to be centre isolated, not grounded to get a 'flow' of signal. Even IF this worked, it would have a gain of ZERO, far from the Most Powerful Antenna around. An average antenna for TV has a gain figure between 4 and 9 db. An old wire coathanger cut approx 3/4" either side of the centre will have a gain of 0db with an output impedance of roughly 300 ohms (so use a two wire balun to connect it to coax cable) and will be bi-directional. It will work over a frequency range from around 170 - 220 mHz but centred around 185 mHz. You still need to be close to the transmitter for it to work. I have seen a YAGI antenna made with coathangers and if done correctly it would yield about 3db gain. Booster Amplifiers are unnecessary if you have a good signal and you should always strive for maximum signal from the antenna before adding amplifiers because they will introduce thermo-electric noise into the signal and in some cases may actually make it worse, not better.
Performance is what your argument should be based..as old school attenna wire clothes hanger wire worked fine..there's even gadgets that turn ones house wiring into attenna
I do believe you...it is not easy to have a good signal w/out using the precise antenna ...the video seems kidding us....
He got digital terrestrial tv reception. Just plug in the cable without the antenna will get the same result if you're near the tranmitter.
@@davechartier6898 those are crap. Waste of money.
This is partially true...as a Ham radio operator I know that what you said about the different measurements to be correct, but ONLY if you are broadcasting. For receiving, the elements can be any length that you wish them to be.....you will still receive a signal no matter what the length of them are, unless you are in an area where you can't pick up tv signals at all due to being in a valley between 2 mountains.
This is a load of crap. You're in a strong signal area so an itty bitty antenna is able to get you some channels. That doesn't mean the antenna is good.
"Load of Crap" Gets a heart from the publisher lol
32mm piece of coax alone can be made into a 2.4ghz antenna
Thank you...you know this was a barrel load of shiggidy
I was able to reach Mars with this antenna(until I woke up!!)!!👍
@@djangelinfinity Strange, I think I heard a radio communication from the galaxy e=mc2, then i woke up.
Being a electronics technician for over 40+yrs with some engineering EXPERIENCE This thing he shows as "The most powerful antenna on earth" IS B.S. the size of the antenna he shows is cut for a much higher frequency. Also the best antennas have a rf high gain amplifier located as close to the antenna you can get it. Never put a amplifier at the TV . If the antenna is 50ft. Or more from the antenna the signal is weakened by the long run of coaxial cable .(better coax less loss) You want the signal boosted at the antenna to get a good signal at the TV.
I was able to reach Mars with this antenna(until I woke up!!)!!👍
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Ken W, I am glad there are guys like you around to Fake Buster! :) Kudos to you, friends.
100% agree! This guy must have thought that making diminishing lengths of shiny things would make it LOOK cool and therefore must true. In actuality the elements he soldered on, to an incoming signal, just looks like a larger lump of metal. The parabolic portion (bottom of a can) was a nice touch. Adds to the cool factor. But has nothing to do with enhancing a signal in the bands he purports to be receiving. And hopefully people caught the fact that you never actually SEE him make the connection from his trinket to the TV. You see one end of some coax being connected and then you see him connecting his 'device' to an end of some coax. Obviously someone off-camera is turning off and on a signal from cable or from a real antenna. Overall, just another click-bait video to get money from CZcams. Jokes on him.. I use an ad-blocker on CZcams so he won't make a dime off my view.
SO DO I NEED TO PUT THE AMPLIFIER WITH THE ANTENNA ON THE ROOF WITH THE ANTENNA ??? IS THAT WHAT YOU ARE SAYING. THANKS.
As a retired cableguy. Award for worse F-connector install, depending on distance to transmitter, a paperclip could give you a picture that good. No documentation to show what is connected to the TV. The reflector doesn't work for the frequencies that TV signals are broadcast on,, much less the active elements. Total fail.
And besides that, this dude is showing digital signal.
That type of antena use's only analog signal 🤬🤬🤬🤬
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Exactly, the way he made those F connections was hard to watch,absolutely terrible. This is how to make the worst aerial ever!
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Is there a way to make a antenna with a paper clip?
Thank you so much. I built this device and now enjoy free Indian Television here in the USA \o/
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Wow! I’m able to vie channels from other galaxies. Thanks
When I was 10 years old, I did not have a 90's TV dish. I saw a neighbour's antenna and thought that the dish was damaged. I cut the cable wire and took out the copper wire from it and made small circles from it. I also brought an aluminium wire which was for power supply, I cut that wire... I connected circles of copper wire to it. I hung it on the wall behind the TV...but did not make any wire connection to the TV.. A few days later when it rained, that same TV and the channels of the neighbour's TV started coming automatically.
My childhood memories are the best on my TV. free tv
I think a coat hanger would work just as well in your area. You seem to be building a directional antenna and you pointed it towards the ceiling instead of the transmitting tower.
If this were real he would've carefully calculated a focal point for the dish. He did not.
@@hipairbrush1053When I saw that he incorporated a dish into his design, I knew that he was full of it. In order for him to see any gain in the VHF and UHF, he would need to have at least a 8ft dish for the UHF and a dish of gigantic proportion for the VHF and a waveguide feed for those frequencies.
@Andy Smythe Understood! But I said it because he put a micro dish at the base.
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I was able to reach Mars with this antenna(until I woke up!!)!!👍
LMAO!
@Andy Smythe Lol!!😂😅
Lol boy !!
Make sure you use a "Regular Coke Can" . Diet or Coke Lite Cans have less reception.
Thank you.
It's great, but I think it is more of a proof of concept to show that its not that hard. I think this would be a great design if scaled up for a longer range. Good job
It is not very important that the terrestrial antenna is strong, what is important is that the terrestrial broadcast signals in your area are strong.😊
Looking at the lengths of the elements, I'd say the antenna is cut for around 1300 to 1500 MHz, not TV frequencies. It looks like a log-periodic wideband design but has no second boom to complete it. And what makes it 'the most powerful'? For all we know the TV transmitter could be very close, so almost any piece of wire would work!
It‘s for 900, 1800 and 3600 MHz, so it may be intended as a UMTS/2G antenna.
yeah it looks like a Log Periodic but it's not! Log Periodic are fed from the short elements end with a series of pairs of single elements one up one down alternating polarity spaced relative to wavelengths thay are good for reflection Cancelling in a strong signal area! Mathematics are needed to make one that works properly!
I was able to reach Mars with this antenna(until I woke up!!)!!👍
Omg, this is nuts. U could attach only a bare wire, and its an antenna!!!
This antenna is so powerful that NASA could use it to communicate with the Hubble Telescope!
Until they get someone to do better graphics for them💕
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You can do that with a length of wire, as well as talk to the ISS. This is a yagi with a directional dish behind it. It'll go far, but your broadcast area is miniscule.
I was able to reach Mars with this antenna(until I woke up!!)!!👍
@@paulheart320 NASA in Hebrew means "To Decieve"
We live 40 miles from any tower and our antenna blew down. Too dark to set it back up so I though bummer,no ME TV tonight but it was working. I went to the roof and the cable pulled out and there was around an inch of the wire sticking out of the coax and I was getting all the channels with that little bit of coax as I could with my antenna. I guess you dont really need a high priced antenna after all.
Common sense the range might not be so great. But it works and he demonstrated that. Don't be a hater, CZcams is about ideas and possibilities. Especially for d.i.y. ers. So appreciate that someone shared an idea. Don't be so quick to condemn it!
when i was in the us air force 50 yrs ago i was a hf radio transmitter repairman and they had huge rotating log periodic with a yagi array antenna which had a long boom of about 25 ft. and was about 60 ft. high. we also had rhombic antenna.
Me, too. But I was in the Army. We had Yagi, LPs and we even had portable LPs, they were only 40 though, the fixed were 80. We also had loops and of course the old favorite dipoles and all of them. Not 50 years ago for me, just 43, lol
@@grandduke2145 the big antennas were used for radio communications with the B-52s armed and in the air over europe back in the late 60's. i was at a base in turkey.
also the big rhombics were for 50 kw long range hf ssb transmitters for radio teletype to other bases in europe.
@@steveperry1344 Steve I had the same job when I was stationed in Turkey. We did the SSB HF to the 5th fleet if I remember correctly. We had a greater array of antennas and equipment in the Special Ops. But we had either 10 or 20 kw transmitters in Turkey. We had an entire field acreage of different antennas. We had a AF antenna guy assigned too.
@@steveperry1344 lol, Steve where at Izmir?
As a old school Ham Radio operator that has built his own antennas I'm laughing at this! Just build a coat hanger antenna. Lol
Give em credit for trying?
I have calculated the antenna frequency, it may work somewhat good at 900, 1800 and 3600 MHz, so it may be good for 2G and maybe UMTS but not optimal for television.
Edit: Should also work on 2100 MHz. I can imagine, that this design originally was intended as a mobile antenna, not a TV antenna.
He's driving all the elements, therefore it's NOT a Yagi.
@@jeffreyhalverson2611 that's what i was going to say !
true, and perhaps the good reception is because he is hiding the HDMI cable under the carpet :D
@@black-pj1mn Or he lives 1-2km from the transmitter.
It would be to directional to be mounted on anything mobile. Back in the early 90s when the cellular business was just taking off I had a business on the side where the local,cellular company company would recommend me to their customers have mobile problems. People would put real high gain antennas on their vehicles and loose their signal on a hill because of the narrow horizontal beam. My last position before retirement we had 15M satellite antennas.
Talk to us about each task as you perform it. Explain what you are doing.
Looks to be an ersatz log periodic antenna with simulated directing and reflecting elements. The parabolic reflector was a nice touch.
Check out the log periodic at Half Moon Bay.
Log periodics need the elements to be split in the middle and fed out of phase. this antenna does neither.
This antenna would count as an endfed with some tubes hanging on the active element. The size of the parabolic reflector is probably usable for frequencies above 100 GHz or so, but definately not if it is oriented like that.
Practically, this is not a working antenna more than any random piece of wire.
At 6:04 there is an editorial cut. Just before the antenna starts working....
Good work ❤
My first flat screen TV. a 13" "Michael Scott" type Phillips. I stuck a paper clip into the type f female on the back and pulled in 10-15 local channels picture perfect.
That paper clip works wonders… I seen done with my own eyes
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It's a toy yagi fit for a dolls house, otherwise an insult to anyone's intelligence.
I know but you have knowledge & technology and congratulations
And that's why you always put a hinge or gimbal on a sat antenna, for mounting on a tripod. Excellent down and dirty job!
I am not an engineer but indoor antennas are subject to indoor interference. You can move a chair and interfere with your reception, so the best antennae is an outdoor with less interference but a bird could send you on a bad trip........
If you live close to the main transmitter towers within most any metropolitan area you can save yourself a lot of money not having to buy all those RCA connectors. Simply take a short piece of coax strip one and with about 4 to 6in of bare copper. Tape it to the wall or to a window in the general direction of your local television transmitters and do a simple channel scan. You'll probably get the same results and save yourself a lot of time.
Yup
You're right overall but those aren't RCA connectors. They're Type F
I did that initially when I got rid of cable. One of my TV sets has the Dish antenna.
Even you hav only 1meter what ever wire you have,,,its very clear if you are in the circle of city...but if you are in province,,it is not working ...promise
I am doing that right now on a couple tv's in our house, we get 8 channels and occasionally more
The military came to my house and wondered who I was trying to spy on?🤔
Wow nice work
Thanks sa BAGong kaalaman
Danny Pitman your comment is exactly right ,im using small bare copper wire in the province of Philippines and i have same result .now a days most tv station had a strong RF OUTPUT in every corner we can receive incoming tv channels celpon too can receive tv station using earphones.
I used a paper clip and it worked fine for about 5 channels, $15.00 attic antenna from Walmart gets 38 channels.
Good technique bro.
💕amazing dear new friend 💕👍
This should come with a WARNING sign, saying this could draw scientists wondering how you could build it??🧐
Mantap sekali tutorial nya,,,kerenn
Very smartly bro . Good job
He ain’t no joke and I’ll tell you right now that he’s bonding all of his terminations correctly and his stuff WORKS! Thx 🙏
The best thing about this video: is all the funny comments it generated!
If they work that good then you should think about selling them on e-bay. But you would want to give a 30 day money back guarantee just in case somebody isn't happy with it. I would buy and try one though.
I was able to reach Mars with this antenna(until I woke up!!)!!👍
This Guy is a great Guy !
Why not start with an aluminum can that has a much bigger diameter? Fosters depth charge or even a Heineken mini keg?
Well, the miniature dish was made from the bottom of an aluminum can~ a 4 oz. pineapple aluminum can.
@@lynnespringer1513 …and it’s really cool…just saying…there are bigger aluminum cans that can easily be fitted into this genius idea… look at the huge Fosters Lager cans, we called them depth charges at the English Pub I worked for during Uni. Also, I have been to small parties where the host served Heineken Mini kegs at his tableful of alcohol drinks…
Lol
Might be good for contacting alien television stations that use cosmic rays for their broadcast.
Wouldn't it be so much easier to etch the elements onto a PC Board and build a little LNA right on the same copper-clad board at the feed-point of the array, and attach something like an SMA connector onto the board ?
That way you could actually use all the little design basics to acquire F/B ratio, Gain, and impedance matching of a half-wave dipole with a reflector behind it, and numerous parasitic directors in front.
With proper design software, and a good VNA, I'm betting you could get AMAZING gain and directionality/rejection from an array less than a foot long. That would put the specs of this one to shame...
Make that 'reflector' a parabola and place the array at the focal point to tighten the pattern a bit more, and it might just be awesome, but wouldn't you want to point the array BACK at the parabola to have it function that way ?
I'm actually considering brewing one of these for Bluetooth freqs so I have less dropouts in my wireless devices. The completed unit could then be encapsulated for ruggedness and protection from the elements.
I like the idea of using the telescoping antenna for the elements, but those could also be attached to an etched Copper-Clad board and be MUCH easier to solder and keep aligned, and gain the bandwidth of the round elements...
Just a thought...
Can you make a video on how to do that?
Very nice and creative. Great ++.
I like it I have a question why didn't you make the coaxial cable longer on the antenna then using some stuff wire made a spring wrapped around and attached it on the back of TV facing up be portable
He connected his home made antenna, he is indoor and pointed it above and suddenly his TV is receiving a (digital) TV signal. Must be getting his signals from heaven. Lol. Ok, ok maybe the TV broadcasting station is just nearby his house... try this if you are in some remote rural area and let's see if it will still work.
Yha it doesn't work wast of money
Comedy bro...digital signal are secured and encoded you must need a same decoder to decode it it's totally a false
It will work, made one and still in use till now
@@SarathRoyal777 I get digital signals pretty good using a similar method in a somewhat rural area. Still not as good as I like but I don't use a decoder
You are better off buying a $30 antenna I get 52 channels with my antenna czcams.com/video/eovWeB5GsIY/video.html
If you're bored out of your mind and you need something useless to do this is the project for you.
This is basically what i did as a kid. Id walk to radioshack and buy random shit and put it together
I was able to reach Mars with this antenna(until I woke up!!)!!👍
like the man said. we can all say what we want but he got over a million hits. we all know it's stupid but we still watched it out of curiosity. it'll get you every time. lol.
Yes, your right. We fall for it. Lessons learned.
A couple of metal darts with a splitter works as well.
A knife & fork would work if the transmitter is only across the road...
Excellent and must congratulate. Will follow the experiment and see how it works.
The cable company told me to take it down! They said it was interfering with their multi million dollar towers!!😒
I can pick up moon noises with my grandfather's mercury antenna.
Very nice trick & video
I was going to drop my two cents on the comments but had more fun reading them.
Yeap. Comments are the best.
if you are in a strong signal area like this guy is in, a freakin metal paperclip will do the same thing....no soldering required!
I was able to reach Mars with this antenna(until I woke up!!)!!👍
Excellent videos ! 👍
Its a dream project for future Tv 😂☺️😂
@DigitalSatPro, wow!
That's very impressive indeed!
Can you please do a video on how to make a 75 Ohm FM Antenna for a receiver?
This antenna 📡 may or may not be the best antenna but it's as good as the second best any other antenna...
I did this and it really works! I’m picking up signals all the way from Uranus👽
How you are changing frequency?
NO CIRCUIT FLOW at elements connected to center dish wire without connecting ground at that point! Not to mention wrong size elements to receive proper local frequencies.
Is it possible to get C band signals of 4 feet into 2 feet dish
Coz 4 feet dish can be install on terrace floor only. Whereas 2 feet dish can be install on wall
antenna is built well just need direction finder
Brilliant. Just brilliant.
I say just brilliant.
Did I mention brilliant ?
yes, I did
a piece of wire would do the same thing. you probably live close to the transmitters. this would not work where i live.
It was only picking up Indian channels. He must have swiped that cable from the Customer Service department.
I use a Paperclip and get so many channels. Simple as that.. no need for such devices.Paperclip into the TV works just as good
I have used yagis for the 700 - 900 band
A discone antenna is really good for TV
Can you make a phone antenna for vehicle travel? Easy to make easy to use portable? the frequencies are the difficult part, because the transmitters and receivers have to all be almost on a chip board for antennas nowadays. I like the concept or at least the possibility. The phone antenna for 700 or the most used frequencies would be really a good video
I Can Show You How To Make That.
I have a question will this kind of antenna work in a low signal reception area?
pretty cool if ya ask me !! thumbs up from Lake George, NY USA....
I'm in the UK, do you have any ideas or advice for improving the reception DAB+ radio?
Carful building this, I got abducted by aliens and got probed by the antenna I built!!😞
Works great for moon bounce on 2 meters with my 1.5kw amplifier.
I was able to reach Mars with this antenna(until I woke up!!)!!👍
@@djangelinfinity Why would you not consider that point as being valid? After all, you where able to bounce a reply off Uranus.
@@LeoTheComm Lol!!😂
Good work. Keep it up👍
Do you still have that alligator-infested swamp land in Florida for sale?
That's you just being next to broadcast antenna, your design can only pick UHF and has very little gain, there's not even a VHF element in this design.
Yes, if the signal around you is strong enough, almost anything will work.
No offense. There must be a digital converter box behind from analog signal if capturing by-air signal thru tv antenna unless some tv broadcast station is still analog. Thank you for the video.
I remember, we were in a remote location in Saudi Arabian desert. 1000 kms from Ras Al Khaima 750 from Qatar. And all we did was to take those pie dishes and put one end of a cable and the other into a 2nd hand old model black and white tv whose name too I don't remember now, and watched movies. The other alternative was the tin wire hangers from the laundry. Worked fine for us.
If this were real he would've carefully calculated a focal point. He just soldered the parts on, and he doesn't know how to solder. Also, when he unplugged the video still ran without the antenna.
It looked to me like when he unplugged, the video froze, and then disappeared. That is normal when a TV loses a signal.
There is no focal point to consider. How does a dish work when its diameter is a fraction of the wavelength of the frequency?
You can really pick up channels a lot of them if you use the SD card out of a phone with what he's using
How
In Canada he is right you can do this and get basic tv and not have to pay for it but it's only three channels give or take on where you live I can only pick up two channels you're doing this
I love your work but you should be explaining names of components you are using ,or writing their names while assembling the antenna.
Pop can, 6-segment aerial, coaxial cable male to female
Botei no meu rádio de ondas curtas e consegui pegar a rádio secreta da Rússia VB 78 com ótima qualidade de som apartir das 17hs. Em 62mts.
love to see a tv scan after you hooked it up
to see how many channels recieved ota
can you mail me one to try for fun ??
I was able to reach Mars with this antenna(until I woke up!!)!!👍
Really useful this please help me
Good Luck !
Looks like it picks up Arabic stations. Can you make one for the hood?
Captures terrestrial broadcasts wherever you are
@@DigitalSatPro Technically you are correct, but then so would a four-inch nail. Why do you think it is the 'most powerful', when a properly-designed and built Yagi would be much better?
ON OFF blur signal is just not good enough ...Nice try, though! 😁
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Old school military style basic survival comunication technology probably used in the field in emergencies, from early from1900's possibly late 1890's
it would work better scaled up, multiply all dimensions by 1000.
I use a large paper clip, bent to a L shape. can pull in 45 -50 channels...
23 is the max in my area
You got the Peterfore crooked
May i know the wire which you been used needel inside coper wire for connecter.
Esta antena só pega os canais dentro da cidade onde tem tores de tv fora da cidade ela não pega canal nenhum porque está antena é pequena e tem pouca potência