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Hobbyists Create GPLed DIY Super TV Antenna
Freshly Exhumed writes "Retired and hobbyist antenna engineers working together in the Digital Home forums have taken an obscure 1950s UHF TV antenna called the Hoverman [PDF] and subjected the design to modern software-based computer modeling in hopes of optimizing its middling performance. The result: the new Gray-Hoverman antenna is more powerful than similar commercially manufactured consumer antennas in every category, sometimes by whopping amounts. Best thing yet: they've released the design, diagrams, and schematics under the GPLv3 so that we can roll our own! Quoth one of the testers, a former U.S. Government antenna engineer: 'Boy, this antenna is hot... This antenna is a vast, and I mean REALLY VAST improvement over anything I have used.' The home thread of the Gray-Hoverman development gives the background of their great work."
Maybe they should do some software-based computer modeling of their webserver...
What doesn't kill you only delays the inevitable
Experience teaches only the teachable. -AH
Wow, this new concept of wireless TV might just take off!
For years, the aliens that land in Area 51 have had to make do with cheap, low-grade bobble antennae sticking out of their heads, which is very disconcerting when they run for Congress. The job of a Government antenna engineer is to design antenna that better blend in with the Congressmen's hairstyles, pointed ears, etc. This is why you don't see them any more.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
...but this is obviously impossible. Nobody creates something new, then gives it away for free, that's why we need copyrights.
Or could that tired old argument just possibly be wrong?
No tyrant thrives when every subject says no.
The Internet loves to compliment things. Why yesterday, it was complimenting me on how well I was using its bandwidth.