How can I use a coat hanger to get TV reception?

Answer 1

Look if you live near enough to the transmitter then a damp shoe lace works quite good ! if how ever you are in a fringe reception area then no matter how much you paid for the coat hanger it will not work. Read jordon c reply and give him the ten as his answer is 100% correct, he also went to a lot of trouble to type it all !!!

Answer 2

Coat Hanger Antenna

Answer 3

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How can I use a coat hanger to get TV reception?

Answer 4

You use it like an antenna to pick up more signal. Attach it to where the regular antenna should attach. Usually on the back of the tv. It might be better to go look for a better antenna instead. As more and more people are using cable, the broadcast corporations are putting less effort into sending signal out over the airwaves. I don't know how much an antenna will help you these days.

Be careful not to hurt yourself. Wire hangers bite. So does electricity.

Answer 5

For some reason, few people seem to understand the basics of radio and TV reception. This is why you see so many cars with coat hangers pronged where the antenna used to be. Folks think, "Hey, that thing was just a piece of wire. This coat hanger is a piece of wire. What the heck!" This is also how all manner of phoney reception schemes can find ready buyers at premium prices.

What you need to know is that the TV broadcast band runs from 54MHz (channel 2) to 216MHz (channel 13) in the VHF ("Very High Frequency") band. The UHF-TV (that's "Ultra High Frequency") band goes from 470MHz (channel 14) to 806 MHz (channel 69). I point this out because there are a couple of interesting things happening in the TV bands. One thing that's really neat is that the FM broadcast band (88-108MHz) lies right next to the frequency for channel 6. This is why you can tune in the audio of a channel 6 TV station on an FM radio (tune to just below 88 MHz). It's also why any VHF-TV antenna is also a good FM radio antenna. It's built-in!

Some of you old timers may remember when the UHF-TV band went all the way to channel 83 and you may be asking, "Wait a minute, where'd the last 14 channels go?" Well, they were auctioned off to the highest bidder and are now the domain of the cellular phone industry. Yes, the frequencies from 806MHz to 890MHz are crammed with millions of Americans trying to drive their cars and chatter on their cell phones at the same time. Do not attempt to tune in those lost channels on an old manually tuned TV set in an effort to listen to those cell phone conversations because that would be illegal :-)

The object of the TV reception game is to capture as much signal as you can and deliver it to your TV set with as little signal loss as possible. To do this, you need two things: an antenna *designed specifically for the signals you wish to receive* and a feed line or antenna cable which carries the signal. This is why so-called "whole house antennas," which use the wiring in your house as a huge antenna, aren't very effective. The wiring in your house is not cut specifically for any signal you're seeking. In fact, it's a random length wire and prone to drag in more noise from electrical devices on the wiring than radio or TV signals.

Answer 6

make sure the coat hanger is digital ready. some coat hangers
may require a ball of aluminum foil placed at the apex. some tweaking may be required.if its a plastic coat hanger you will have to sit 32 feet away from the tv...
good luck and dont poke your eye out.

Answer 7

well, assuming you have an old TV with a metal antenna; twist off the hook part of the hanger and stick the rest into the part of the antenna that you didn't break off. The broken hanger either goes into the broken antenae or if that's gone, into the hole for the antenna.

You know, TVs are cheap now. You shouldn't be going through this..

Answer 8

I find the best homemade thing is speaker wire or wire from an electrical cord of some kind. Works so good and is so easy. You just have to strip the rubber off and stick it in where the cable wire would go and leave it rather long to receive reception.

Answer 9

I pick up 37 CHANNELS with a coat hanger just rip off the top part and jam it in the coax.

Answer 10

First of all you must use a METAL coathanger. Look in your local Yellow Pages and find the nearest TV mega store. Go to that TV megastore and hang around watching.

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