Because they have moved most of the frequencies to UHF - the elements are now 8' long.
I also made that antenna yesterday, worked MUCH better inside than the single whip that came with the USB tuner for the laptop. Today I mounted it 32 ft. up on one of the HP loop supports, and got three more channels, all solid reception. I made mine out of aluminum clothsline wire that was left over from quad antenna that I dis-assembled years ago. My wife has stopped asking why I keep all the junk around - it keeps getting re-cycled. On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Luther <benz-n-h...@gulseth.net> wrote: > Why does DTV require a special antenna when it's using the same frequency > as analog TV? This is simple physics, f/234 = 1/4~ length of the antenna, > these things don't change based on the medium of transport (i.e. > digital/analog/morse code/FM/AM/SSB/packet etc). > > Luther -- OK Don W124 Diesels Ubuntu 8.10 KD5NRO -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://okiebenz.com/pipermail/mercedes_okiebenz.com/attachments/20090308/a57e7c29/attachment.html> _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
