Re: WMYD 20.1 gave up the ghost
Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2021 9:26 am
Yeah, you're right. Sad thing is when I lived with my mother just passed the county fairgrounds, I had built my own antenna out of the shell of a long commercial florescent light fixture we had in the kitchen. It just upped and died one day, so while she went to Lowe's to buy a new one, I removed it from the kitchen ceiling, gut and trash all the electrical components and took into my part of the house. Using a 10 foot section of RG4, I bolted the silver outside wire to the fixture and soldered a copper fractal to the inner copper wire, screwed the other end into a old school balancer, and screwed the balancer into a 75ohm adapter that hooked directly to the TV. No amps at all. That thing was SICK! 
All I had to do was lean it vertically against something at ground level and it pulled everything in. The fixture was pretty much functioning as both a dipole and a reflector pumping UHF signal into that fractal. Insane reception, and this was in a part of the house that was an addition the landlord built in the 1960s ... out of cinderblock! I freakin' MISS that homebrew antenna! 
All I had to do was lean it vertically against something at ground level and it pulled everything in. The fixture was pretty much functioning as both a dipole and a reflector pumping UHF signal into that fractal. Insane reception, and this was in a part of the house that was an addition the landlord built in the 1960s ... out of cinderblock! I freakin' MISS that homebrew antenna! 