Good (small) indoor antenna for DTV reception?

[OvenMaster]

Originally Posted by kbmuri

Also, the main 2x2 looks kind of metallic (gold). Might just be the photo, or maybe paint. If there's anything metallic about it, the whole antenna's one big short.

The crossed feed lines are curious, but correct. This channel-master looks to be the same design:

http://www.solidsignal.com/prod_disp...om=Large#xview

and the bays are cross-fed similarly. I don't know the math behind it, was hoping one of the experts would chime in...?

Son of a gun, you're absolutely right. Thank you for that.
Now I'm trying to figure out which is better: crossed or uncrossed.
Here's another call for experts to lend their knowledge on this, please!
Tom

[wa2ise]

I've seen commercially made versions of this one
with a few S shaped wire pieces for decoration attached to the reflector grill, with the entire thing gold colored. And the bow-ties made of stamped aluminium, with some decorative cutouts in the middle of the triangles. Looked briefly at eBay, but didn't see anything like this there right now.