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From: woolstar@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (John D Woolverton)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics,soc.college
Subject: Re: Dorm room antenna
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Date: 24 Aug 88 04:26:30 GMT
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>>>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...

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 John D Woolverton                      "Yes it's true..."
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 woolstar@csvax.caltech.edu