Jury rig digital TV antenna

Easiest would be to buy an antenna plus mounting stuff from Bunnings and put it up yourself, it's not rocket science. The question then is what's the added value in the installer. If he does the job right he'll attend properly to grounding, but my guess is that that isn't always done.

If you really want to bash something together yourself for fun, then there's plenty of info on building antennas on the web, but you may find it a surprisingly fiddly exercise.

Cheers Bruce - $130 from Bunnings for Antenna/cable/bargeboard mount/connector plate. Installed & works well. Probably as good as the what I would have received for the $200 I expected to pay an installer.

The bargeboard mount is a bit crappy - it needs some guy wires, that can be a job for tomorrow when I work out how to run them in under the roof tiles....

Thanks for the suggestion.

If it's going to be permanent, attend to the grounding. It's a safety issue.

Having not followed the thread I have to ask what do you wish to ground ?

Half wave dipole for approx 200 MHz - ie 2 wires 38cm a side on a bit of wood - connected to coax feedline.

Thanks - I'll try that next time - I went the bunnings route.

On 8/04/2011 10:57 PM, Dennis wrote: about 1/2 metre then bare and twist the end

A simple way is strip back some figure 8 about a metre bare and twist one end then tape it to the wall or a support in a diamond or square fitting a plug to the other end and the twin will act as a feeder the loop as a quad , usually works although may need some orientation side on