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Originally Posted by wa2ise
I remember seeing in TV Guide and other magazines and papers ads for a plug in TV antenna. "Use your house's electrical wiring as a TV antenna" it would say. It was a small plastic cylindar with a power plug on one end, and twin lead also running out of it. Don't know what was inside, heard there was nothing inside, not even a coupling cap to the powerline. I don't think you'd want to use the powerline as an antenna anyway, there sometimes be noise from sparky furnace motors and such to put spots in TV pictures.
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Someone gave me one of those , and it was a piece of
JUNK I could pick more of a signal up with a coathanger .
I dont know if they were sold in the USA , but here in Canada in the late
1980s there were these fake satalite dish with rabbit ears things sold for $19.95 they were made in China and were really cheap and they had this tuning control that , when turned switched off one of the antenna leads , leading people to believe that it was a fine tuning control when both connections were switched on it . The dish had dipole sticking out in front of it , it was for UHF . These units were on the borderline of false advertising and did not recieve any better than the original singal antenna in most portables .