TV Antenna's (Kinda non-free Software)
Hi Everyone, I Recently purchased a TV Antenna USB Stick online from China. Here is the link to the device I purchased: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Digital-USB-TV-FM-DAB-DVB-T-RTL2832U-R820T-S... One that I could muck around with, as it has many great uses for experimenting with SDR as well as Digital Television. One thing that really sucks though, is the antenna it came with it extremely week and doesn't pick up anything other than some FM channels. So I was thinking of getting an Indoor TV antenna (that I can hook up to the USB device), but not sure which is the best and most affordable. I already have purchased the coaxial to MCX converter cable for it, as it is needed to plug in a normal TV aerial to the USB TV Antenna device. I don't want to spend any more than I have to on an indoor antenna, so $50 is kind of the limit. And if possible, I don't want to have to use an external power source for it either. Anyone on this mailing list got any suggestions? Kind Regards, -- Andri Effendi <fusionman133@gmx.de> GPG fingerprint: 8438 138D ECDA 05E0 591F F2B4 4721 0F03 AC24 DF73 Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted.
(ugh, resending with reply to list) Depending on the frequency range (thus the size), you may want to have a look over discone antennas - pretty easy in a DIY and a good response in frequency from what I'm reading Linkies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discone_antenna http://www.instructables.com/id/Discone/ http://www.rtl-sdr.com/home-made-coat-hanger-discone/ https://hackaday.com/2013/01/28/great-antenna-for-software- defined-radio-is-really-easy-to-make/ http://www.changpuak.ch/electronics/calc_11.php - online calculator On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 12:02 AM, Andri Effendi <fusionman133@gmx.de> wrote:
Hi Everyone, I Recently purchased a TV Antenna USB Stick online from China.
Here is the link to the device I purchased: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Digital-USB-TV-FM-DAB- DVB-T-RTL2832U-R820T-Support-SDR-Tuner-Receiver-Free- Shipping/32661367598.html
One that I could muck around with, as it has many great uses for experimenting with SDR as well as Digital Television.
One thing that really sucks though, is the antenna it came with it extremely week and doesn't pick up anything other than some FM channels.
So I was thinking of getting an Indoor TV antenna (that I can hook up to the USB device), but not sure which is the best and most affordable.
I already have purchased the coaxial to MCX converter cable for it, as it is needed to plug in a normal TV aerial to the USB TV Antenna device.
I don't want to spend any more than I have to on an indoor antenna, so $50 is kind of the limit. And if possible, I don't want to have to use an external power source for it either.
Anyone on this mailing list got any suggestions?
Kind Regards, -- Andri Effendi <fusionman133@gmx.de> GPG fingerprint: 8438 138D ECDA 05E0 591F F2B4 4721 0F03 AC24 DF73 Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted.
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On 16 Dec. 2016, at 09:52, Adrian Colomitchi <acolomitchi@gmail.com> wrote:
(ugh, resending with reply to list)
Depending on the frequency range (thus the size), you may want to have a look over discone antennas - pretty easy in a DIY and a good response in frequency from what I'm reading
Linkies:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discone_antenna
http://www.instructables.com/id/Discone/
http://www.rtl-sdr.com/home-made-coat-hanger-discone/
https://hackaday.com/2013/01/28/great-antenna-for-software- defined-radio-is-really-easy-to-make/
http://www.changpuak.ch/electronics/calc_11.php - online calculator
On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 12:02 AM, Andri Effendi <fusionman133@gmx.de> wrote:
Hi Everyone, I Recently purchased a TV Antenna USB Stick online from China.
Here is the link to the device I purchased: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Digital-USB-TV-FM-DAB- DVB-T-RTL2832U-R820T-Support-SDR-Tuner-Receiver-Free- Shipping/32661367598.html
One that I could muck around with, as it has many great uses for experimenting with SDR as well as Digital Television.
One thing that really sucks though, is the antenna it came with it extremely week and doesn't pick up anything other than some FM channels.
So I was thinking of getting an Indoor TV antenna (that I can hook up to the USB device), but not sure which is the best and most affordable.
I already have purchased the coaxial to MCX converter cable for it, as it is needed to plug in a normal TV aerial to the USB TV Antenna device.
I don't want to spend any more than I have to on an indoor antenna, so $50 is kind of the limit. And if possible, I don't want to have to use an external power source for it either.
Anyone on this mailing list got any suggestions?
Kind Regards, -- Andri Effendi <fusionman133@gmx.de> GPG fingerprint: 8438 138D ECDA 05E0 591F F2B4 4721 0F03 AC24 DF73 Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted.
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