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Frugal and Energy Efficient Living

GoCubsGo

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4. That's really cool!

Reply to Fumesucker (Original post)

Sun Mar 4, 2012, 02:55 PM

Mar 2012

I may have to try that one of these days. I made one of the coat hanger antennas with 4 bows a few years ago. It works fairly well. I was looking at your other post that had second version with only 3 pairs of bow ties that are spread farther apart. For the hell of it, I went and spread apart the bows on my antenna. Since the coat hangers I used were slightly warped, they don't touch each other. Lo and behold, I am now able to get fairly good reception for some stations I couldn't get in very well! I guess I have a hybrid between the two now. Wish I had done that long ago. I like this Stealth Hawk antenna better. It's nice and clean.

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High performance TV antenna from one piece of wire.. [View all] Fumesucker Feb 2012 OP

What is the little gizmo that the copper is attached to? OffWithTheirHeads Feb 2012 #1

In that case it's a small plastic electrical box from the hardware store.. Fumesucker Feb 2012 #2

Wow! It's sure simpler looking than the Antennas Direct DB8 Multidirectional HDTV Antenna RKP5637 Mar 2012 #3

That's really cool! GoCubsGo Mar 2012 #4