A more in depth vid of my UHF/VHF coat hanger antenna.
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How to build a VHF marine radio antenna for less than .
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thx man
does it work in Australia? our frequencies here are 65-550 Mhz?
I would like this so much more, it would be so much more helpful if the video were LIT well. It’s so difficult to see the work you’ve done with such poor lighting. Also, when you took apart the UHF/VHF antenna, you didn’t say whether or not it is amplified (it seems to be since there is a blue light on)…
Great job. Looks good.
Could be wrong, but it should work
Thanks for this solution. I tried 4 purchase antennas, and the original coathanger antenna,and was unable to receive VHF. With your version I am able to receive VHF and had a use for my old amplified antenna. Works great. Kudos
OK the idea ! ( and nice the quick final comment ).
does it work for an analog tv with a converter box? i live in cali, nd cant even watch fox 11 my tv doesnt picks it up at all. or channel 13, or 7 wich should be local, nd have the best shows. i cant afford a new tv.. please help? i haven’t watched my simpsons 4 way too long.!!!
god bless u man
nice tatoo man
Again man, I love you. You have a talent in explaining things …..I listened to both of these videos intensely ……. then you said watch Desperate Housewives in HD & I crapped my pants laughing. Whatever Great Video …God Bless
If you splice rabbit ears onto the UHF coat hanger antenna, (A) connect them at the transformer connection point, and (B) make sure they’re treated as separate antennas and not an enlargement of the UHF antenna. This is done by connecting them with a shielded wire (like cable) or a coil (curly spiral wire). Just connecting them anywhere on the UHF antenna throws it out of tune.
Thanks for making this video. I stupidly threw out many antennas over the years, even one last week.
Thanks for giving more details
i just got the ANT-585 so i can try this
Nice work dude!! Keep it krafty!!
What if I only have the rabbit ears? Can’t I just use the end of the two wires and screw them against the coat hangers?
Good job. I like clever things built from common materials.
these kind of projects are always interesting. I may very well build one of these using coathangers and wire at some point. For the moment I am using a 4 bay antenna built using a wooden dowel as a support with 4 Radio Shack Bowtie antennas snapped onto the dowel. Actually I have the wires crossing over from the top and bottom bowties and then of course a transformer in the middle between the bottom and top pairs. I can tell you that it works very well as I receive long distance TV stations.
copper always better and don’t need any amplified rabbit years just attach any rabbit ear antenna and have a signal adapter that can receive two sources of signals.
great video but do you have to have an amplified antenna or does it have to be plugged in to work?
please make a video to show how much channels you recieve and rescan so i can see how many channels u recieve
Cool, but could a regular powered VHF antenna be used instead of the “HD” one?
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Thanks. I really need PBS here in San Antonio. come by tattoo shop at Zarzamora & Fred. rd maybe you can help with crap reception we get
[1/2] Nice on integrating a VHF solution into one of the popular designs. It seems many are not paying attention to their local markets or have an incomplete understanding of where their local channels will end up on the radio spectrum. I’ve seen comments claiming all DTV will be on UHF, which is false, so thanks for bringing that to light, however, I have to disagree about the use of the RCA guts on your antenna…
It will not work probably !… A dipole antenna must have each sides diffentes according to the frenquency. PU5HLU.
That’s what were looking for. Thanks for the feedback Cory.
Now you have a nice electrically and mechanically sound connection. In a marine environment it wouldn’t hurt to fill the connector with some white di-electric grease and put some goop around where the coax jacket meets connector.
The proper way is to put braid and all up through the reducer, then fold it down over the reducer. Then thread the two parts together. you should now be able to see the braid through the four holes. Use the holes to feed in the solder to bond the braid, connector, and reducer together. Then go ahead and solder the centre pin, trim if need be then thread the sleeve over the lot.
So enlighten us on the proper method.
Didn’t say anything about not working, and it’s probably not too bad. BUT your ground doesn’t have a good connection and over time the dissimilar metals will tarnish and voila! burned out radio finals
Especially for a marine type antenna that will be exposed to the elements.
Sucks when you do it wrong and it works anyway.
You didn’t install the PL-259 connector properly
Copy that Uncle Dougger, thanks for the correction.
The conector on the radio is an SO-239. The PL-259 is the one that goes on the coax cable.
@submarineboat Well you might be surprised! Try it BUT don’t forget you need to be on the water in your boat when you do! (ha ha ha)
I am going to build me one today
Thanks for the great how to video
Right, and no, we have not tested it for range. I doubt it breaks any records.
O i see what i missed! You folded it back (the shield) along the coax in the PVC and you made a folded dipole! Have you tried it on transmit? thanks for the video!!!!
@submarineboat OOPS You are correct! i need to watch this again because i missed something! Great Idea BTW
Right, both ends are the same length but that are not taped together. The core goes up, and the exposed braid goes down. Now the braid does go down along side the coax and it’s taped to that. That is not the recommended arraignment but it works.
@submarineboat you made a dipole antenna! That is an antenna with both side the same length! Look it up on Google! BUT then you taped the two sides together to make it one wire! !! Why?
I did what? Speak English.
What did I miss/ You made a dipole then taped it together? /
Grrrrrrrreat Video!