BigCat's Blog of DOOM » HDTV http://www.bencatlin.com My name is Ben Catlin, and this is where I rock out on topics like my life, technology and faith. Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:30:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Ben-tenna project 2.0 http://www.bencatlin.com/2010/01/18/ben-tenna-project-2-0/ http://www.bencatlin.com/2010/01/18/ben-tenna-project-2-0/#comments Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:44:10 +0000 BigCat http://www.bencatlin.com/?p=1079

On Friday my MythTV server (my DVR software running on my server) had major audio and video artifacts and skipping during Dollhouse. This isn’t the first time this has happened and is particularly annoying since the TV upstairs rarely, if ever, has issues with Fox. Well, this was the last straw for me.
( WTF is broken?!?! )
( How am I gonna fix it )

And finally, before the pics, some links for more interesting info:
Two articles about building the antenna from some RF magazine
http://www.tvtechnology.com/article/68820
http://www.tvtechnology.com/article/68436
And the PDF for the GPLv3 version of the antenna with the rod reflectors/passive elements.
http://www.xmtr.com/articles/RF182-fig1.pdf

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