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Need an HDTV antenna without spending any money? A few wires, cardboard, washers and hangers are all that you need – so follow this simple DIY guide and make your own homemade HDTV antenna to prevent signal drop-outs at the wrong time! It will hardly take you an hour or so, to make your personal homemade antenna with whatever is lying around in your junkyard or store room; here’s how you can do it.

1. Pick a small plywood piece (or other weather resistant or weather impervious material) – say 30×16 inches in size, and some grates from an old oven or a couple of metal drying racks.

2. Wrap the piece with the aluminum foil type of high temperature duct tape.

3. Now, cut a 2 X 4 to the proper length and prepare a notch cut in the bottom (so as to be able to mount it in the rotor or on the mast). For instance if your board is 30×16, you may want to keep a 5 inch notch cut…
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