This antenna is designed to be "cheap" : ) I have a scanner and it works great with it, but thats not all I also plugged it into my digital TV convertor and some of the channels were the strongest I have seen them, some were down but snipping or adding to the length of the radils/whip would tune it into these digital TV freq. exactly!!!! DANGER! DO NOT MOUNT IT NEAR POWER LINES! The antenna must be in the vertical position, meaning that the tip of the vertical portion away from the coaxial cable must be up towards the sky. The 3 radials are soldered on and bent in 3 equal directions with the angle about 45 deg. down from horizontal, similar to the simple drawing in the video: Material list 1. Coaxial cable. I used RG6 2. Wire for the radials. I used aluminum grounding wire. Final length....About 20 inches each (3 pieces) #12 or #14 works well and is more stiff than smaller wire size. ! 3. Wire for the vertical section. Actually, this wire will come from within the coaxial cable by removing the outer insulation and the shield, make sure to also remove any silver paper, heat helps this silver foil to be removed I found. 4. Soldering gun or iron, solder and sealer for the coax radial junction. This keeps the rain out and is very important. 5. Assorted hand tools, sharp knife for trimming insulation from coaxial cable. . The best ways to construct a scanner antenna is to take your full length of coax and remove the outer insulation AND the shield for about 21 or 22 inches ...
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