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Hobbyists Create GPLed DIY Super TV Antenna

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the what-open-source-can-do dept.

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."

3 of 185 comments (clear)

  1. model a better server by SoupGuru · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe they should do some software-based computer modeling of their webserver...

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  2. Re:Bandwidth by More_Cowbell · · Score: 5, Funny

    the basic Hoverman design DOES have the bandwidth to cover it
    However, the server TFA is on does NOT have the bandwidth to cover slashdot.
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  3. Re:Renewed niche for broadcast TV? by noidentity · · Score: 5, Funny

    What makes broadcast relevant again is having the Internet to compliment it.

    The Internet loves to compliment things. Why yesterday, it was complimenting me on how well I was using its bandwidth.