{"id":451,"date":"2007-12-20T23:28:05","date_gmt":"2007-12-21T03:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mini.local\/blog\/index.php?entry=entry071220-222805"},"modified":"2007-12-20T23:28:05","modified_gmt":"2007-12-21T03:28:05","slug":"diy-uhf-antenna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/?p=451","title":{"rendered":"DIY UHF Antenna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.biosrhythm.com\/wp-content\/images\/UHF_Antenna.jpg\" width=\"484\" height=\"363\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>Ever since I gave Comcast the boot and FiOS the welcome, I&#039;ve not been using the Miglia TV MiniHD receiver since FiOS doesn&#039;t use QAM modulation.  The USB receiver does however tune ATSC if you have a good antenna and some nearby transmitters.  The included antenna is mostly a joke unless you live very close to the transmitter.  I needed something better&#8211; so I immediately think of DIY.  I found a site that included some instructions on how to build a decent UHF antenna based on the design of ones available for purchase.  It&#039;s really very simple, I didn&#039;t follow the directions, instead choosing to replicate what I saw in finished example of someone who made one.<\/p>\n<p>The reception is quite good, scarily so in fact for something that cost me nothing.  I can say it works because the digital signal basically either comes in clearly or not at all (no snowy picture!) The base of the antenna is a USPS Priority Mail box covered with aluminum foil, screws, washers and copper Romex leading to a matching 75 ohm transformer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lumenlab.com\/forums\/lofiversion\/index.php\/t9613.html\" target=\"_blank\" >Link to how-to.<\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g7\/datobin1\/DIYAntenna.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" >Link to reference photo.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since I gave Comcast the boot and FiOS the welcome, I&#039;ve not been using the Miglia TV MiniHD receiver since FiOS doesn&#039;t use QAM modulation. The USB receiver does however tune ATSC if you have a good antenna and some nearby transmitters. The included antenna is mostly a joke unless you live very close [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}