Good idea. In my area, it only picked up few strong signal stations same as using paperclip or old AC adaptor to touch the coaxial wire. They were all slightly worse than my old rabbitear antenna. I used 2 wall and one rabbitear antennas to get every possible channels with/without preamplifers. With all the 3 incoming signal interferences, I could only mostly adjust the rabbitear one with limits (couldn't go up, down and other distances, etc) and no good results for 2-5 channels. People in other videos found that mutiple antennas could increase/decrease a particular channel signal strength. The good thing about this (your) simple antenna is that I used it as the mobile antenna to modulate those weak channels (to go up, down, on the floor, various distance, anywhere the cable can reach!), once the picture was clear it normally stayed. I inserted couple cup cake tin cups before the wrapped tin foil and a clipper on the cable so it could hang on the TV edge or clip on something. Thanks again for making the video.
Hi, I was having trouble out of my store bought (indoor) antenna and I came across your video when looking for possible ways to "boost" the one I have. So, I decided to go ahead and make what you showed, just to see how and if it would work for me. I must say, I am absolutely impressed! I get the same amount of channels that I did with the actual antenna, but the reception is so much better. It is currently raining and windy where I'm located and I could not get the store bought antenna to work at all, as far as keeping a signal. However, when I did this, I have not lost signal one single time!! Thank you so much for putting up this video. I will definitely be telling people about this little trick.
You are probably getting more electrical noise from the wiring behind the audio cabinet than from the airwaves. Move the antenna wire to as better place than near the electrical outlet.
I have a question. My tv doesent have this connector that looks like a needle. It is like the needle one, but there is no screw-in and the "needle" is thicker. Can i use this? If not, can i use an adapter
Sorry for the late response to your question. I’m not sure what kind of connector your TV has, but technically anything should work as long as you are plugging a wire into the “antenna” input for your TV and attaching a cable that makes it more receptive with the ball of tinfoil that I demonstrated in my video. Some coax cables do not have the screw connector and have a “slide on” instead. It is certainly worth giving it a shot if you can find a cable that works for the connector on your TV and then try to duplicate the same thing as shown. I imagine that an adapter would also help if you need one.
It worked and I got 1 channel but after shutting down the tv and turning it back on I lost signals (it took me around 2 hours to get this to work because the tv station would stop broadcasting sometimes and i didnt know that while I was getting the antenna to work)
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That's NOT TIN FOIL.
It's aluminum foil. Take a course in English, and read the packaging.
Thanks for the enlightenment. Will do! 😊
Good idea. In my area, it only picked up few strong signal stations same as using paperclip or old AC adaptor to touch the coaxial wire. They were all slightly worse than my old rabbitear antenna. I used 2 wall and one rabbitear antennas to get every possible channels with/without preamplifers. With all the 3 incoming signal interferences, I could only mostly adjust the rabbitear one with limits (couldn't go up, down and other distances, etc) and no good results for 2-5 channels. People in other videos found that mutiple antennas could increase/decrease a particular channel signal strength. The good thing about this (your) simple antenna is that I used it as the mobile antenna to modulate those weak channels (to go up, down, on the floor, various distance, anywhere the cable can reach!), once the picture was clear it normally stayed. I inserted couple cup cake tin cups before the wrapped tin foil and a clipper on the cable so it could hang on the TV edge or clip on something. Thanks again for making the video.
Hi, Thank you for this homemade antenna, works great on my visio old tv. Got 68 local channels.
Hi, I was having trouble out of my store bought (indoor) antenna and I came across your video when looking for possible ways to "boost" the one I have. So, I decided to go ahead and make what you showed, just to see how and if it would work for me. I must say, I am absolutely impressed! I get the same amount of channels that I did with the actual antenna, but the reception is so much better. It is currently raining and windy where I'm located and I could not get the store bought antenna to work at all, as far as keeping a signal. However, when I did this, I have not lost signal one single time!! Thank you so much for putting up this video. I will definitely be telling people about this little trick.
Thanks for the comment! I’m happy to hear that this works for you too.
Thank you so much. I just made one. I got 32 ch. wasn’t getting but 18 before. Cheap and free cause I already had everything at home
No problem! I’m happy to hear that it worked for you.
I just looked at your video. It word like a charm. Thank you for taking the time to make this video.
Thank you for the comment! Glad I could help you out.
Works great for my brother's college dorm. Get 85 channels now
wow!
It actually works now my dad can watch football
Hey, i've been try use with cable and Tin Foil and to get 135 channels, but NOT anymore.
My tv works without the tin foil, i only need to plug in the cable in and hang the other end anywhere behind the tv
You are probably getting more electrical noise from the wiring behind the audio cabinet than from the airwaves. Move the antenna wire to as better place than near the electrical outlet.
for me i got 20 channels on my roku tv. before on my crappy doller store antenna i got like 2 channels.
I have a question. My tv doesent have this connector that looks like a needle. It is like the needle one, but there is no screw-in and the "needle" is thicker. Can i use this? If not, can i use an adapter
Sorry for the late response to your question. I’m not sure what kind of connector your TV has, but technically anything should work as long as you are plugging a wire into the “antenna” input for your TV and attaching a cable that makes it more receptive with the ball of tinfoil that I demonstrated in my video. Some coax cables do not have the screw connector and have a “slide on” instead. It is certainly worth giving it a shot if you can find a cable that works for the connector on your TV and then try to duplicate the same thing as shown. I imagine that an adapter would also help if you need one.
Your tv probably has this connector en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belling-Lee_connector
What model is your tv?
Its an older Costco model Samsung 75” QLED.
THIS IS HARD
Can I use electrical tape?
Yes, that will work. I only prefer masking tape because it’s easier to remove later on without residue.
GO CATS!!!
It worked and I got 1 channel but after shutting down the tv and turning it back on I lost signals (it took me around 2 hours to get this to work because the tv station would stop broadcasting sometimes and i didnt know that while I was getting the antenna to work)
How tf it take u that long
@@2crayz because he's 3 years old
Try a paper clip. It takes about 20 seconds.
@@redblood911 what the hellll
@Fibrocrossstudios it took me that long cuz it wouldn't work at first for some reason and kept trying and trying then it finally worked
why couldn't you just cut the metal ring off the cable
You probably could, but it would be a pain in the ass and I made this video with the assumption that most people might not want to ruin the cable.
It doesn't work lie😢
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Why didn't you give more efforts to prove this isn't BS?
I stand corrected, I gave it a try and it actually worked, I don't need to go buy another antenna now
Glad it worked for you, thanks for the update!