[HCDX]: Re: Grounding!

[john r dale <jrd-four@xxxxxxxx>]

>wire would work just as well. I've got the same dilemma with my FM/TV
>reception. We live in a river valley so FM/TV reception is poor. I've 
>thought of putting the antenna up on the hill, but I've always assumed
the 
>exhorbitant lead-in lengths (500+ feet) would eat up all the gain
derived >from the extra height.

Four or five years ago "Monitoring Times" had an *excellent* antenna
issue.
Some guy who lived out in Utah or Nevada (I think) got a bunch of copper
tubing and cut it to fit the wavelength of individual TV channels.  Then
he filled the tubing with sand and bent it around small metal tanks to
form loops, such as you see on the back of your TV set.

It took a bit of work and effort, but he then had three or four
single-channel
loops which he then connected to feeder cable, then to his TV.  He
reported a remarkable improvement over the multi-element TV antenna on
his mast.
So for a little effort, he got a lot of improvement.

I realize that most of us do not have the room or the resources to do
something like that, but it may get us to thinking.  By trying to build
something large and then figure out how we can make it smaller to fit our
location, we can improve our reception.

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