TV Antenna Diagram

I have been in the Chicago area my entire life. I messedwith wires and got ALL of Chicago stations on tv. Who knows of a good home-made indoor tv antenna drawing that I can try to make from wires and antenna parts from my hands? Or, where can I get a good adjustible directional indoor tv antenna? I think a great analog indoor antenna will pull in more Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan,and other Illinois signals. I already can pull in 47 free stations with configurations I tried using home-made tv wires and such. I think a really old-style indoor tv antenna is what will pull in even more tv stations, including possibly Wisconsin, Quad Cities, NW Indiana and more. Anyone have tips on making the right homemade indoor tv aparatus antenna?
I know you are joking. But, seriously, while the change to digital is not for about 6 months, I find I get more channels free from many loctions, with different (not the same, not re-broad-casted) programs. With a good antenna indoor or outdoors, I can get more variety than I ever did with pay cable. It might sound strange, but nothing beats location signals and local programming. Digital boxes are awesome, and with the right antenna, lots more variety is available thru the free airwaves than anything you pay for, with the right antenna or reception.
In the sw suburbs of Chicago I allready can GET IN, WI, MIchigan, and far away stations. It IS NOT TRUE that with the digital converter that 1) I need cable tv, 2) I needf sattelite or 3) I need an outdoor antenna. I can get Wisconsin, Indiana, and SW lower Michigan NOW with indoor antenna configurations. Therefore, some manufacturer must MAKE a good indoor antenna that's better than wires, coat hangers, or lousy $10 antennas the major retail stores are selling today. So therefore, no answer is even answering my question. I get out of state with "junk" I rig up inside my apartment or in my car trunk. You can get out of state with a strategically placed piece of copper wire even without the digital box converter.

Well, learning4ever, I guess you are going to learn(excuse the pun) the hard way that analog is not the same as digital. An indoor antenna will not work for you on Digital signals from your neighboring states as you state in your question. In any case, I wish you all the luck in your effort in trying to get these "far away" stations with an indoor antenna.

2008-07-24 00:28:27 by learning4ever

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Need a diagram showing how these devices are connected or detailed instructions.
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Thanks,

Your set up should go in this order. antenna>dtv converter>dvd/vcr recorder> rf modulator>older tv.

2008-08-30 22:45:33 by marceline.chapman

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Something like a wire hanger.

Preferably with a diagram.

tinfoil...shape it anyway you want...it works....

2007-09-08 10:38:18 by weatherbuff2007

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My TV is a Sylvania SST4322 with video and audio in jacks on the front and back, an S-video input jack and a antenna coaxial jack on the back. The VCR is a Sylvania SSV6001 with 3 red white and yellow audio and video input jacks on the front and back and an antenna in jack and antenna out terminal (both coaxial). The DVR is a Sony RDR-VX511. On the front it has line 2 in (S video/audio L/R jacks. On the back it has Audio Out L/R jacks, Digital audio out (Coaxial/Optical) jacks, a Component video out, an S video out jack, Line 1 in (Video/Audio L/R) jacks, Line out (Video/Audio L/R) jacks and VHF/UHF In/out jacks. I want to be able to record and view on both the Sony DVD and the Sylvania VCR. Is there a diagram that will show me how to set this up.

whichever one you use for the channel flippin goes first. im guessing the vcr. go sat/cable into vcr, antenna out coax on back to dvr coax in, s-video to tv.

2007-05-26 13:00:31 by sadb1999

I have a mass of wires that you would not believe behind my large screen tv. It is not a digital tv but does have av jacks etc. I have Dish Network with the local channels. I still have a roof antenna though and I want to try hooking up the converter box to see if I can drop the local channel package with my Dish. Lots of diagrams online but I am still very confused. Can anyone help?
All the Dish connections are done by the tech who installed it. I would not want to mess with them and not be able to get the Dish. Can I hook the converter up separatly to the tv and antenna and not mess up the Dish DVR receiver?

>Can I hook the converter up separately to the tv and antenna<

Yes, assuming your TV has an antenna coaxial input as all new sets have (except those advertised as "HD ready"). Just hook the antenna to the antenna input on the converter and then, depending on the specific converter you have, you can either use one of the AV connection types or use the pass through RF connection to run straight to your antenna input.

I would suggest reading up on AV connection types. There are many places on the internet that will describe them and show pictures, to aid in your ability to recognize them. If you don't want to do that, at least consider taking a picture of the back of your TV and the back of your Dish Network receiver, so if something gets unplugged, you can fix it.

2009-02-03 15:06:53 by shylee4