How To Make A Tv Antenna At Home

Use scissors to cut a 12 inch diameter hole in the bottom center of the plastic can.

How to make a tv antenna at home. And your usual coaxial cable plugged in. Thats pretty much everything for the antenna part. Using a hot glue gun or tape you can finalize and secure the transformer and wires neatly. Use coaxial cable to connect a digital signal ready television or converter box to.

It should be 22 inches. In turn these should be glued to each side of the plastic sheet making sure to line them up. Check out this easy to make indoor antenna to enhance the quality and number of your channels. It should be 1x3 inches 254x762 cm or 2x3 inches 508x762 cm.

One of the best things about the indoor antenna is not climbing up the roofs to set the direction right. Connect these wires to the wires you just attached to the foil antenna. Each should be bent so that each side is 7 inches 1778. Attach the coaxial cable to the balun.

Place heat shrink tubing over the tips of the ears and use a flame or heat gun to shrink it tight to the wires. Step 1 use scissors to cut a 12 inch diameter hole into the center of a removable top of a plastic or cardboard can such as a pringles chip can. Prepare a wooden board. Each section should be 14 inches 3556 cm long.

The build requires two printed copies of the template each glued to a sheet of foil and cut out. Fine tune the settings and enjoy the show. I got all the channels from 60 miles away with the antenna 5 ft high in my front yardthis antenna will out perform any antenna you. This video shows how to make the best tv antenna you can own.

Bend each section of wire. Position the antenna to receive signals. Save the time and expense of buying a rabbit ear antenna if you need a tv antenna for just a few days. Attach the antenna to the tv through the coaxial cable.

With the wires stapled or glued to the legs of the fractal design connect the balun to the antenna.