Homemade HD Antenna

Okay, one last iris pic. It's the middle of June, so they are done for this season. The orange lilly's are due to come out next! Not that I'm a big gardener or anything, it's just nice to see anything growing up here in Wisconsin after the long, cold, winter.

I was channel surfing yesterday and ran across a program on PBS called MAKE. They were running a series of MAKE episodes all afternoon. The show is about creative people who combine ordinary items to make things with a completely new function. I always find it interesting to see how innovative people think and solve problems. Many of the projects on the program are not very useful for the average person, because most of these projects are build by people who had an idea and simply wanted to see if it could be done. But you can't help but be inspired.

One of the episodes showed how to make a homemade HD antenna. I found out later that the inspiration for this was a video on YouTube that shows how to make an antenna out of coat hangers. You can search for other HD antenna designs on the web, so I won't list them all here. Most of these homemade antennas look so ugly, that you wouldn't want to put them up where anyone could see them. Some clever DIY'ers have mounted them in their attics. Like most antennas, they work better if you mount them up as high as possible. After seeing what other people have done, I am confident that I could build one that works just as well as any HD antenna you can buy, but for a lot less money.