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I mentioned this antenna recently in another post but thought it needed it's own post.
Sorry about the bad picture but you can get the idea. This is the digital tv antenna that I built from 8 pairs of hotdog tongs from the Dollar Tree and a 4 dollar stiff piece of lawn edging from Walmart. I live halfway between Cincinnati and Dayton and I pick up more than 40 local channels. I had dish network until recently but I would turn it off when I couldn't find anything good and watch local tv. A few weeks ago I was watching direct tv and it went out for a few minutes and when it came back on it displayed that a solar flare had knocked it off air. It's just a good antenna for backup or if you want to do away with the cable or dish bill. I'll try to post the link to the Popular Mechanics site where I got the plan from but if it doesn't work you could cut and paste it.
Watch Television For Free - DIY Digital TV Antenna - Popular Mechanics
Cool the link works. The blue area in the PM photo is shrink tubing or electrical tape so the two elements don't touch each other there.

Sorry about the bad picture but you can get the idea. This is the digital tv antenna that I built from 8 pairs of hotdog tongs from the Dollar Tree and a 4 dollar stiff piece of lawn edging from Walmart. I live halfway between Cincinnati and Dayton and I pick up more than 40 local channels. I had dish network until recently but I would turn it off when I couldn't find anything good and watch local tv. A few weeks ago I was watching direct tv and it went out for a few minutes and when it came back on it displayed that a solar flare had knocked it off air. It's just a good antenna for backup or if you want to do away with the cable or dish bill. I'll try to post the link to the Popular Mechanics site where I got the plan from but if it doesn't work you could cut and paste it.
Watch Television For Free - DIY Digital TV Antenna - Popular Mechanics
Cool the link works. The blue area in the PM photo is shrink tubing or electrical tape so the two elements don't touch each other there.