msmith@topaz.rutgers.edu (Mark Robert Smith) (08/23/88)
Can anyone reccomend a good TV antenna to go inside a dorm room? I am
going to have a TV in my small single, and I'd like to improve the TV
reception in New Brunswick, NJ, USA. (not Canada)
Can anyone point me to a cheap TV antenna that fits in a dorm room
safely? A rabbit ears won't help, the TV already has them.
Thanks
Mark
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msmith@topaz.rutgers.edu Bill and Opus in '88!!!strong@tc.fluke.COM (Norm Strong) (08/24/88)
In article <Aug.22.18.19.23.1988.8888@topaz.rutgers.edu> msmith@topaz.rutgers.edu (Mark Robert Smith) writes: }Can anyone reccomend a good TV antenna to go inside a dorm room? I am }going to have a TV in my small single, and I'd like to improve the TV }reception in New Brunswick, NJ, USA. (not Canada) }Can anyone point me to a cheap TV antenna that fits in a dorm room }safely? A rabbit ears won't help, the TV already has them. I recommend an outdoor antenna on the roof of the dorm. Do not ask permission to put it there; the answer will be NO. (Better to ask forgiveness than permission.) I did this in my dorm as well as 3 apartments I lived in subsequently. I got caught once. Hey, 3 out of 4 ain't bad. The worst that can happen is to have to take it down. -- Norm (strong@tc.fluke.com)
dmk@pilot.njin.net (David Katinsky) (08/24/88)
That isn't the worst that can happen at Rutgers.....
dmk
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dmk@pilot.njin.net {wherever}!rutgers!dmklemke@Apple.COM (Steve Lemke) (08/24/88)
In article <4909@fluke.COM> strong@tc.fluke.COM (Norm Strong) writes: >I recommend an outdoor antenna on the roof of the dorm. Do not ask permission >to put it there; the answer will be NO. (Better to ask forgiveness than >permission.) Another quote: Never take "no" from someone who doesn't have the authority to say "yes". Anyway, in my dorm (ten story building with LOTS of concrete and steel), I had little luck with a FM dipole in the room. I then bought the $13.00 Radio Shack omnidirectional (mast mount) antenna, and hung it from the ceiling which sometimes worked and sometimes didn't - rotating it (funny, it was supposed to be omni-directional) often helped. I also had a FM signal booster but I wouldn't recommend wasting money on one of those - in a fringe area or an area with lots of interference, it just amplifies the static and the interference... Good luck - the best thing I did to improve FM reception was to move out of the dorms at the end of the year and into my own apartment where I could tap the cable and (through a A/B switch) use an antenna conven- iently installed in our attic. ===== Steve Lemke ===== Internet (?): lemke@apple.com UUCP: {sun,voder,nsc,decwrl}!apple!lemke AppleLink: LEMKE GEnie: S.Lemke All opinions are, of course, mine, and could never belong to anyone else!
woolstar@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (John D Woolverton) (08/24/88)
>>>Can anyone reccomend a good TV antenna to go inside a dorm room? > > I recommend an outdoor antenna on the roof of the dorm. Do not ask permission > to put it there; the answer will be NO. (Better to ask forgiveness than > permission.) We have a few renagade antenna on the roof of our dorm. When someone wants to hook up to it, he just buys ~100 feet of 300ohm antenna cable at the stock room and runs it out his window to the antenna. Since there usually are about five to eight people connected to each antenna (in parallel) the reception is not great, but does ok. During a particular windy week, I noticed at one point that my reception had improved. After climbing on the roof and following my cable, I noticed that it had disconnected from the antenna and was just sitting there. I left it like that for quite some time. Actually, living in the LA area, five miles from two of the network transmitters (on Mt Wilson), we had to deal with the opposite problem: too strong of a signal. We'd have to add series resitors or just use half of the signal (leave the other side floating or grounded). The result was one impressive rigged antenna connection :-) Good luck one way or another... -- -------------- John D Woolverton "Yes it's true..." jdw@tybalt.caltech.edu woolstar@csvax.caltech.edu
coltoff@PRC.Unisys.COM (Joel Coltoff) (08/24/88)
In article <7680@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> woolstar@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (John D Woolverton) writes: >stock room and runs it out his window to the antenna. Since there usually >are about five to eight people connected to each antenna (in parallel) the >reception is not great, but does ok. I heard a story from a coworker and don't know how true it is but it is a good way to get rid of the extra load hanging on your antenna. From time to time you disconnect your TV and receiver from the twin lead and plug the sucker into the wall. It doesn't take long for the free loaders to get the message that they aren't welcome. -- - Joel {psuvax1,sdcrdcf}!burdvax!coltoff (UUCP) coltoff@burdvax.prc.unisys.com (ARPA)