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Maker Workshop – DTV Antenna & Steadycam on MAKE: television




Maker Workshop – DTV Antenna & Steadicam on MAKE: television Digital converter box? Check! Great reception? Not so much. John Park shows how to take a fistful of wire coat hangers and make a TV antenna that gives great digital reception. While hes at it, he also makes a video camera stabilizer using metal piping and counterbalance weight; great for at-home moviemaking. Download the PDFs for these projects at www.makezine.tv

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25 Responses to “Maker Workshop – DTV Antenna & Steadycam on MAKE: television”

  1. hey dudes hi to all ???? budies i need instrument information to build a antenna that should capable to catch dish chanels in Pakistan?

  2. GREAT STUFF! But HOW does the Steadycam work if all you’ve done is make the whole apparatus heavier? WHY do the wires on the antenna have to be exactly 5 3/4 inches apart?

  3. @ktmat21 well if worst comes to worst then you’ll just have to bear with it and watch the first part again

  4. 4:55

  5. TheGamingMagician on June 30th, 2010 at 11:53 pm

    you could make your own with just a small peace of pvc pipe

  6. what was used for the handle on the body of the steadicam?… I didn’t catch that in the begining of the video… but it looks like a good part to have on the steadycam…

  7. If your talking about for the antenna
    Radio shacks got them Only a couple bucks.

  8. well that guy wasted his money and time. they dont use steady cams any more. (sarcasm)

  9. where can u get the kind of transformer he has cheaply

  10. Heresathought on July 1st, 2010 at 1:47 am

    I wuold have thought trackwork would have been more practical in most applications than a £15k steadycam, but a very innovative and useful project (and rather cheaper than a homemade track dolly).

  11. your piece of wood is not 3 inches, If you look at the measurement specs on his little computer, it shows the wire should be 2 1/2″ apart, from screw to screw. If you measure in 1/2″ from both sides of a 3″ plank, it makes the screws only about 2 inches apart. you could atleast know what size material you’re using. stoops!!

  12. Also whatever translator program you are useing isnt very good.

  13. Link? Send me a PM.

  14. I realized this project (antenna), but does not work
    I am from rome

  15. Gehinterkopf on July 1st, 2010 at 4:09 am

    freeze @ 5:00 !

  16. I have a question, if the antenna has to be aluminum? or do any of bronze? subjects that is best for the TV signal?

  17. Mastiffluver69 on July 1st, 2010 at 5:53 am

    Well, since the June date, I had lost all but all of one of my channels and that was if I screwed around with my rabbit ears for ten minutes. Just for grins I built this antenna, I am 60 miles from the transmitters. I about fell on the floor when I hooked up my $2 antenna. Thank you for the instructions on building this antenna! Mark

  18. Dude, I am an engineering tech here in the states. If you look closely at the commercial antenna model he displayed you know it was the same design as the DIY finished project. Does the material specs really matter? NO!

    I made one of these before I saw any of the videos and it works quite well. I have no idea of the differences in resistance, capacitance or inductance from the commercial model but who cares?
    The commercial model runs about $40.
    KISS. Keep It Simple Stupid.

  19. Lowe’s or Home Depot around $4-5

  20. Anonymous5125 on July 1st, 2010 at 6:33 am

    kipkays steadicam is better

  21. I just finished building this project using a 1″x2″x35″ board, plastic covered metal hangers and a UHF/VHF/FM matching transformer.
    It found more UHF stations than my old, $20, brand name, UHF/VHF rabbit ears. But the signal strength for my VHF stations dropped by about 15 percent according to my DTV converter box. This is a good diy or educational project and it only cost me $1.25 for new coat hangers; everything else was in my junk drawers.

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  23. chizzychizzy78 on July 1st, 2010 at 7:39 am

    this is scary if u read this this far u will die in 10 days if u dont send to any 15 videos in 2 hour

  24. Well sorry for having an opinion! I actually really enjoy Make’s other articles, but I just find that this aerial is basically a waste of time when a pre-made one could be purchased off the shelf. If you would also take a closer look, I wasn’t hassling the Make, I was defending my right of opinion by two knuckle dragging neanderthals.

  25. JamieJWSmith on July 1st, 2010 at 8:36 am

    DrGomezNZ – Hey you could be a little nicer to the Make, just you are incapable of doing this!

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