Free HD TV Using Old Fashion Antenna
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- Get many channels in very high quality HD TV using an old fashion antenna mounted in your attic or on your roof. We discuss the benefits of receiving digital signals using the over-the-air (OTA) method our Parents and Grandparents relied on. We discuss handling VHF and UHF signals. More at www.handyguyspo...
All that's really needed to convert an old attic antenna is a matching transformer / balun. Many people recognize these things as the things you used to connect something coaxial to the old TVs with the two wire antennas. It's just converts the 300ohm antenna signal to more modern friendly 75ohm coaxial so that you can scan for channels with a digital tuner on your TV.
The the only difference between analog and digital signals is the digital TUNER on your TV. The antennas are just metal receiving signals.
Now if you want to boost the signal reception you may need a preamp and/or a splitter/booster depending on whether you are feeding one or several TVs. But just for basic conversion many of us already have the adapter we need sitting in a junk drawer or on the back of an old TV.
I think I missed it did they ever say "HOW"
yes. antenna, TV with tuner, and coax to connect them. We do a newer video showing the leaf antenna that works well.
I grew up with this in Los Angeles California...2...cbs...,...4..NBC.....5..WB..
.....7..ABC.....9..RKO.......11..FOX.....13...CW..28....PBS,......Than a Bunch of others on UHF
OTA HDTV broadcasts are in mpeg2, which is a compressed format. OTA broadcasts have a max limit of 19Mbps per channel (6mhz channel spacing/8VSB modulation) An uncompressed HDTV video at 720p is significantly higher than 19Mbps.
Compare to cable they are less compressed
What a waste if time they show you nothing.
A lot of chit chat, and zero useful information. Notice that more than 1/3 of the thumbs are pointing DOWN!
I made it 7 minutes listening to this drivel before bailing out.
Mark Kraabel I cringed when they said ASIC instead of ASTC. If they don't know, they shouldn't speak on it.
I have a roof atenna that came with the house when i bought it. the cable that comes down from the cable is a flat cable and was cut and looks nothing like a coax cable. is there a converter to make it a coax connection?
raul bermudez You want a 75 to 300 ohm transformer.
+raul bermudez I'd replace the whole line with RG6 cable. The twinlead you now have is probably old and deteriorated and will lose signal on the way to the television. Coax has minimal signal loss.
@@dualref9580 Very true. You would want to get that tv antenna down, and if you can, get that twin lead off of it and put all new washers and wingnuts on the connections. When installing the RG 6 cable, number one, be sure you seal out the cable connector into the matching transformer, IF you can even get a matching transformer these days as they are no longer available, and number 2, be sure to have a drip loop on the cable itself in order to keep moisture from getting to the center conductor of your connector, which is also why you need to seal out the connector with plumber's goop sealant to make sure that moisture doesn't get into the center conductor of your connector of the RG 6 connector you've made on the cable itself.
I use my old Atenna on my PlayStation stuff
As another viewer commented, you show the "old-fashioned" antenna in the attic, but you failed to mention whether it was an actual pre-digital age antenna (old analog antenna) OR if it was a newer DIGITAL (HDTV) antenna that just looks like an old antenna. If it actually was an old analog antenna, I doubt it would work as it would not pull in the digital signals (unless of course there is some sort of converter box involved, which you also failed to mentioned). For this particular clip you guys were not so "handy".
purpix1 it is a standard old fashioned antenna. There is no difference to the antennas int eh 1970s or now. They work the same. The difference is in the tuner.
+The Handyguys Actually the antenna shown in the photo was a Winegard HD7698 antenna, a current product. It has been made for a long time by Winegard. It pulls in HI-VHF and all UHF HD digital stations.
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Antennas, ALL antennas work on the matter of what frequency you are trying to get and what pattern you need to get that. They go from omnidirectional to a very tight beam pattern (like a satellite dish that will only pick up one of 2000 satellites). Omni is good if you are close to all the local stations. Like, your car antenna is omni - and you still get stations if you change direction. Remember, "AM and FM" can now be digital too. there is NO SUCH THING as an HDTV antenna. That was as stupid as saying "digital ready" was for a speaker in the 80's! Most audiophiles are still using speakers from the 70's and before - no matter what the source is!
@@TheHandyguys That's not exactly true. It's in the TRANSMITTER too. ATSC is an entirely different signal than NTSC was.
I just discovered you guys and when you whete talking about tuning in to UHF 57 I thought it would be cool if you were from the Philly market. (Philly 57!). Then when you said channel 6 i wad getting really excited...then you guys said you ARE in the Philly market - AWESOME! Where abouts? I'm in Telford Montgomery County by doing research for our place in the poconos. I subscribed!
Timothy Sweeney Thanks for subscribing. We are in Valley Forge area.
Philadelphia is one of a few markets that has a VHF-Lo station, and ABC has not been happy about it. Being so close to New York City, there were few channels available to move stations around in 2009. ABC was on channel 61 prior to June 12th 2009. On June 12th 2009, any stations that had either their analog or digital channel on 52 to 69 had to move to another channel. Any stations that were losing both channels had higher priority for new channels. If the analog was on a channel below 52, but the digital was on 52 to 69 in most cases, we're forced to flash cut the analog channel to digital. That was what happened to ABC in Philadelphia. The FCC told them that there were no available channels on 7 to 51 available without interference from stations in other markets, that they had to make channel 6 work. So except for those with outdoor antennas optimized for 2 to 13 for VHF, people with rabbit ears can not get ABC with rabbit ears, because with digital, VHF signals don't penetrate homes very well, even with power increases. Now with the UHF dial about your shrink again, more stations will be moving to, or moving back to VHF. The digital transition was tested more with UHF than VHF, because in many markets there was little room to test VHF. For the few markets that tested a VHF-Lo channel, like CBS in both Chicago and Kalamazoo Michigan, they both begged the FCC to move them off of 2 to 6. CBS in Chicago moved to 12, after working out a deal with PBS station WTTW, to acquire their antenna for VHF, and initially was going to go to 11, but after the ABC affiliate in Milwaukee Wisconsin decided to stay on UHF, CBS Chicago moved to 12. CBS in Kalamazoo Michigan moved to 8, after the NBC affiliate decided to stay on 7. CBS in Chicago originally had their analog on 2 and digital on 3, where it was reverse in Kalamazoo Michigan.
Check out Danny S Hodges or Southern ideas youtube channels to see how to build your own antenna.
Would connecting two antennas to one TV set improve picture quality?
i don't think splitting the coax signal would help.
It depends on how you do it - and why. If one is strictly for UHF and the other for VHF and you went through the proper filters before combining, you would be fine. Remember a VHF antenna will pick up UHF - but not the other way around. Antennas like these guys are showing are UHF only. Another reason might be a signal in another direction. If it was on thew same band, back in the analog days that would have caused a "ghost" image. Those are pretty much gone in the days of digital though. Go to a place like antennaweb.org and figure out what stations are on what REAL RF channel - and the exact direction (and mileage) from your house!
You can do that if you have tv channels in different directions. Best to run separate tv lines of RG 6 cable into the celler of your home, using a two way or three way splitter, grounding that splitter on a cold water pipe, and running that wire to another ground, a ground block, double grounding the lines then into a 4 way amplifier, then you can run 4 tv sets on one one tv antenna without any signal loss or picture problems.
@@danbasta3677 Yeah, the ground is really important; most people may look over that detail. I serendipitously learned it because every time the TV would freeze or pixelate I grabbed the connector and it would improve.
Seriously guys are you just talking to hear yourself talk? Where is the the how too?
I thought they said that your old-fashioned antenna would pick up HD signals no need to change the antenna or convert it to anything
BS your way through nothing.........................................end.
Don't buy this antenna~rust quickly and lost 65% of within the yr ~I guess this IS why they put it aside so quickly
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This is junk!!!
What, the antenna? YEa, we did not have a lot of success with that antenna from our location. However, The larger antenna is working great in many homes that we have recommended.
Really.