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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."

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  1. In other news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    What's the best way to solve America's problems? A: Send every nigger swimming back to Africa with a beaner under each arm. Propz to GNAA

  2. Re:on that topic... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Ahh yes, PBS... The home of six months each of Hispanic History month and Black History month programming squeezed around 16 hours a day of begg...errr...fund raising with the occasional National Gay Men's Chorus concerts thrown in the mix.

    I stopped watching PBS when Big Bird put on his first gang bandanna and used the word 'homey.'

  3. Re:For non DIYers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I think the whole point is that anyone can make a version, even a knockoff. Stupid american, too greedy by far.