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You can make a super simple and super fast antenna from a coaxial cable for receiving digital television channels in your hands for about 5 minutes. For this, you will not need absolutely anything except the cable itself. And this is the main plus of this antenna.
Nowhere is it without a TV.
Cable antenna for digital TV in 5 minutes

This design will surely help you out, for example, when you just drove into a house and still managed to stretch the cable or put a stationary antenna. Of course, this is not the only example where this truly simple loop antenna will help.
Now someone will write in the comments that there are antennas even easier, such as whip antennas. For the manufacture of which it will be quite simple to remove two insulation from the cable and everything will work. Of course, I agree with this, but the loop antenna, which I will make of the coaxial cable, will have much greater gain, due to its directivity and resonantly closed circuit.

Coaxial cable antenna manufacturing


It looks like an option made of black cable.
Cable antenna for digital TV in 5 minutes

And now the manufacture of the antenna in order. All we need is less than half a meter of coaxial cable of any color. I took the white one.
Cable antenna for digital TV in 5 minutes

5 cm back from the edge of the cable and remove the top insulation.
Cable antenna for digital TV in 5 minutes

Next, remove the insulation from the central core.
Cable antenna for digital TV in 5 minutes

Now all together we gently and tightly twist.
Cable antenna for digital TV in 5 minutes

Then, we retreat from the edge with the stripped insulation 22 cm and cut a piece of 2 cm of the top insulation and shielded wire from the fae, without touching the insulation of the central core.
Cable antenna for digital TV in 5 minutes

Now we measure out another 22 cm from the end of the cut and make a cut of 1 cm wide only with the removal of the upper insulation. Do not touch the cable screen.
Cable antenna for digital TV in 5 minutes

Next, we take the end of the cable from which we started. And we very tightly wind it at the last cut, forming a circle of the antenna.
Cable antenna for digital TV in 5 minutes

Cable antenna for digital TV in 5 minutes

On this, our antenna is ready to work. Of course this is not necessary, but if you hang the antenna on the street, then it is better to insulate all exposed places of the cable with electrical tape. You can also add a rigid frame, but this is optional.

Antenna Location


We direct the antenna to a repeater or television tower. The direction can be chosen empirically by rotating the antenna.
The best option would be if you place it outside the window, since the walls of the house dampen the high-frequency signal very much.
Cable antenna for digital TV in 5 minutes

The check showed an excellent result.


Cable antenna for digital TV in 5 minutes

Watch the video antenna manufacturing instructions


If you still don’t understand how to make an antenna from a cable, be sure to watch the video below or ask questions in the comments.
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Comments (145)
  1. Alexey Arkhangelsk
    #101 Alexey Arkhangelsk Guests April 26, 2019 8:25 p.m.
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    Made in the garage, a range of about 20 km. The flight is beautiful. Thank you very much.
  2. Guest Max
    #102 Guest Max Guests May 1, 2019 5:59 p.m.
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    Tell me how to connect this antenna to the TV now?
    1. Gregory
      #103 Gregory Guests May 8, 2019 10:20
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      The article describes everything, read it again. The other end of the cable, the one that is farthest from the ring, attach a television plug, as in an ordinary antenna, the central core to the center, the braid to the screen.
  3. Alexander Likhachev
    #104 Alexander Likhachev Visitors May 4, 2019 5:06 p.m.
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    This antenna killed me ....
    I bought a couple of different 1000r. with amplifiers - they work with freezes and interruptions.
    Periodically had to change direction ...
    When I connected this - EVERYTHING worked ...
    the loop just hangs without settings and works ...
    Thanks for the valuable advice !!!
  4. Murat
    #105 Murat Guests May 8, 2019 1:09 p.m.
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    I did the same in 10 minutes, the signal quality is 100%. Thanks to the author
  5. Guest Alexander
    #106 Guest Alexander Guests May 17, 2019 03:37
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    Thanks to the author!
    All 20 channels work great, without freezing and glitches! smiley
  6. Sergey Galaev
    #107 Sergey Galaev Guests May 24, 2019 10:28
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    Hello !
    How to correctly calculate the antenna parameters so that it receives channels and 1 packet (TCE = 24, frequency = 498 MHz)
    and 2 packets (TCE = 37, frequency = 602MHz)?
    1. Guest Sergey
      #108 Guest Sergey Guests May 24, 2019 20:42
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      On the second page, a detailed formula outlines how to make the calculation. you have a shoulder of 26 cm.
  7. Guest Sergey
    #109 Guest Sergey Guests May 24, 2019 12:46
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    I did it in 10 minutes. All 20 TV channels and 3 radios work: S-83%; Q-100%
  8. comrade Sedus
    #110 comrade Sedus Guests May 24, 2019 19:52
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    Works. Permian. Zakamsk. 19 digits, 2 radios, 16 tv.
  9. Guest Vitaliy
    #111 Guest Vitaliy Guests May 29, 2019 09:41
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    This is just unbelievable !! Made at home in 15 minutes. Mosk. reg. the distance to the tower is 35 km. Just threw a loop on the windowsill ,,,, and Oh !!! miracle !! all channels, three multiplexes. Signal 80% Thanks to the Author !!
    P.S. Instead of 22 cm, measured 26.5 cm.
  10. Guest Oleg
    #112 Guest Oleg Guests June 1, 2019 08:16
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    Great antenna. Simple construction, but efficiency is beyond praise!
  11. Rimma
    #113 Rimma Guests June 2, 2019 3:59 p.m.
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    We bought an antenna in the store, it showed only 10 channels of digital television. I found this article and barely persuaded my husband to make such an antenna, he didn’t believe that it would work .. He did it yesterday, and as soon as the fairy tale began to show 27 channels, + there were still 2 channels from the center of the TV and 2 radio channels .. Antenna SUPPER !!!
  12. igor
    #114 igor Guests June 4, 2019 08:19
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    hi antenna is working the first multiplex of channels the signal level is 62% and the signal quality is 100% and the second multiplex signal level is 42% and the signal quality is 100% LG TV
    June 4, 2019. only I did the antenna a little more retranslated for my nearest radiator
  13. Guest Eugene
    #115 Guest Eugene Guests June 28, 2019 19:43
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    The proposed version was working, made in about 7 minutes, did only for the sake of experiment and comparison with his homemade product, namely the eight antenna. The result of the eight is that the signal reception level is higher by an order of magnitude, but to do it longer and more dreary. And so dazzle the antenna in 10 minutes, this is a test!
  14. Guest Sergey
    #116 Guest Sergey Guests June 29, 2019 16:17
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    It works, but only outside the window or on glass. 70/70 percent, but I also have an antenna on a 6m mast with a 90/90 amplifier.
  15. Timur
    #117 Timur Guests July 14, 2019 05:05
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    The antenna, what is needed, catches the signal without interference, before that I tried different ones, none of them worked well, including the factory ones. As they say, all ingenious is simple. Thanks to the master! Now we can watch our favorite channels in Samarkand.
  16. novel
    #118 novel Guests July 22, 2019 5:38 p.m.
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    everything works great thank you
  17. Guest Andrey
    #119 Guest Andrey Guests July 22, 2019 11:11 PM
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    All ingenious is simple ...
    Not just working, but very well working. The son the schoolboy collected in 20 minutes.
    To the TV tower 28 km, the cottage in the fold of the terrain - the floodplain of the river, windows and walls significantly shield. one of the 20 channels works "in large pixels", all the rest are excellent.
    Master great respect. That's why he is talent ...
  18. Natalya Mikhailovna
    #120 Natalya Mikhailovna Guests July 24, 2019 19:43
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    I am a pensioner, at the cottage the neighbors drove a telly without an antenna. It’s unprofitable to buy an antenna, so I found a “loop” here, and there was a cable at home. I asked my granddaughter (15 years old) to help. They did it, they checked it in the city ... WORKS !!! Hurray !!! Tomorrow we’ll go to the cottage and check there. Thank you very much. My daughter did not believe what we did.Thank you all for the feedback, although I doubted a little.
  19. Guest Sergey
    #121 Guest Sergey Guests July 30, 2019 17:19
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    Thank! Effective antenna, 5 minutes to manufacture and the TV shows a signal level of 92%
  20. the guest
    #122 the guest Guests August 11, 2019 18:19
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    Does not work. But I didn’t catch a single channel ... maybe the cable is old? Not shielded.
  21. Guest Sergey
    #123 Guest Sergey Guests August 11, 2019 20:06
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    I did a clean check in 5 minutes. 5 meters cable new white used. Almost all of the tower in the area of ​​5 km through the village. 1 multialex at 754 MHz / 2 multiplex at 778 MHz catches from us. I couldn’t take the antenna anywhere, up to the window 2-1.5 meters on the 1st floor is a brick house. The signal strength is 20-25%, quality is 100%. Thank you very much to the author. I also made Kharchenko catch like this / but this is easier to do. I am writing from 08/11/2019 Ulyanovsk region. Thanks again.
  22. Guest Alexander
    #124 Guest Alexander Guests August 12, 2019 18:25
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    I am amazed !!!! This is genius !!!
  23. rai75
    #125 rai75 Guests August 14, 2019 12:14
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    Thank! Assembled, everything works, 20 channels + 3 radios, but this is on the new LG TV,
    The old Samsung does not find digital channels, although you can select an analog or a digit in the channel search settings. Do not tell me what could be the reason?
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