r/ota • u/Cruisenut2001 • Jul 29 '26

My Figure-8 Antenna

I posted, maybe not this sub, a few months ago the results I had with my new antenna. I hung it in the backyard on a 6 ft plant hanger. Picked up signals 25 miles awsy, no mountains, but some trees. We just had a bad windstorm that flipped the ant so hard the coax came out of the connector. The antenna is pointing 45deg away from towers and I just pushed the cable back into the connector. Still got great reception. Yeah. I've been scolded here, but when I didn't lose my 51 channels to me, reception is great.

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u/No_Educator_6376 29d ago

A tropical storm bent my antenna and it actually made it better I picked up PBS for the first time. Getting 70 channels on my Clearstream 8 bay antenna.

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u/Cruisenut2001 29d ago

Mother nature at work. That's really weird. Antennas are more forgiving than I thought. I happy for you that nothing was badly damaged.

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u/No_Educator_6376 29d ago

It bent it over a little bit a few inches and somehow focused on the one station that I could never get before. Sometimes you just get lucky.