Anybody ever heard of this HD Antenna technology
This device is being pushed on the Woot website. Woot's owned by Amazon as most know. How does it work?
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austinjenna wrote:
at home i was able to see all chicago stations except cbs using a straightened paper clip as an "antenna".
Thats because you need an HD paperclip. Fortunately for you I do sell them but not really sure if its legal for me to sell you this as it has the possibilities to overwhelm your tv set with the amount of channels it will pull in. If you want to take the leap then let me know and we can work out a payment plan but dont wait long as this military grade clips will sell fast!
lmao! well, the paperclip was one of those larger ones. i'm a ham and had a TV in the shack and had not yet run the coax to that room. had a paperclip lying on the desk and wondered...gave it a shot as a lark and was stunned when it worked. the house is in the primary service area for chicago tv stations...roughly 25-mi west of downtown. the cbs station (wbbm, ch 2) has since moved ops to the ch-13 freq and who knows, maybe the paper clip would bring in that station now. i'm sure it helped that my set was on rhe second floor against an outside wall.
of course the point of the story was that just about anything can work as an antenna if you're close enough to the txmt site and that the term..HD antenna is pure BS marketing.- I like the Paperclip
The 100 channels claim is about the only legitimate thing in the entire ad for that antenna.. WHY do I say this
Well every TV station has (Somewhere in it's files and often on line) a "Footprint" map.. This is the chart of where you can and can not watch them and also just how much antenna you need. For example where I grew up we were in the "Dark" for all TV stations.. but thanks to a 100' Tower and I think Channel Master's #2 Signal Sucker (Antenna) we got many stations.. What can I say. I installed the mast head amplifier.. at the top of that 100' Tower.. I'm acrophobic so you got to know I had the proper safety gear up there to insure I came down in a nice controlled manner.. one step at a time.. not the 3-second express (SPLAT) way.
So what they did was research and find the one place on earth where you could get 100 "Stations" with that antenna. Took it there, hookd it up and verified. Then they publish the ad.. Ask them they can give you the address where it's true. at home i was able to see all chicago stations except cbs using a straightened paper clip as an "antenna".
Thats because you need an HD paperclip. Fortunately for you I do sell them but not really sure if its legal for me to sell you this as it has the possibilities to overwhelm your tv set with the amount of channels it will pull in. If you want to take the leap then let me know and we can work out a payment plan but dont wait long as this military grade clips will sell fast!philh wrote:
Ron3rd wrote:
Yeah I've heard of all the OTA antennas out there but was wondering if this was something different.
No new amazing technology. My hand made antenna, with a broom stick and bent wire actually worked amazingly well, but I wanted even more distance.
at home i was able to see all chicago stations except cbs using a straightened paper clip as an "antenna".Ron3rd wrote:
Yeah I've heard of all the OTA antennas out there but was wondering if this was something different.
No new amazing technology. My hand made antenna, with a broom stick and bent wire actually worked amazingly well, but I wanted even more distance.- Looked at it. Lots of hype. Not a lot of performance.
Now if you are in a "Dense" area (like perhaps Los-Angles or NYC) you might get "Hundreds of Free (Over the air) stations.
But I guarantee that antenna will not outperform a properly aimed Winegard Sensar IV with Sensar pro. Can not inf act for HEIGHT IS MIGHT at VHF/UHF frequencies and that sucker is designed to go "Down low" (window or shelf)
I have used that general type of antenna in the past. THey DO work. but not all that well. Been around for .. Well since last century at least. gatorcq wrote:
Frequencies never change - UHF where all HD signals are derived from still sue the same old antennas that our parents used. Even those that had a RF amplifier installed.
The broadcast TV channels are spread over both VHF and UHF frequencies. "HD" formatting has no relationship to the channel a station is assigned to. You are correct though, that the same old antennas, both VHF and UHF, continue to work just as well today as they did "back when".
