Comments on: Get better TV reception on old TV before spending money

By: Joanie

Joanie — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:53:58 +0000

I just came in the house after raking my grass…long story. The short story is-this does work! I’m a product of the 50’s, 60’s and you guessed it-the 70’s. My folks used this trick every day. Hey, with six kids-money was tight! And, the cheaper the "foil" -it didn’t matter-this trick still worked. My kids would definately say, "Oh Mom…you’ve got to be kidding us."

By: Dave Lieber

Dave Lieber — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:58:01 +0000

I corrected it for you. I can only imagine a librarian’s angst over a badly-spelled word.

By: Maggie Dwyer

Maggie Dwyer — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:31:38 +0000

While you’re on the subject of aluminum foil:

http://people.csail.mit.edu/rahimi/helmet/

(And I wish I’d proofed that first post before I hit ’send’ — it’s "Perry" not Parry.)

By: Dave Lieber

Dave Lieber — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:17:31 +0000

UPDATE: This has gotten so out of hand with notes from people across America that this works, that we decided to create a Facebook Group to get the word out to more folks: “Karen Lieber’s Idea to Use Aluminum Foil on TV Antennas to Improve Signals.” Let’s give Mrs. Watchdog Nation a little credit here, huh?

And in another development, the Heloise Department of Watchdog Nation also has learned that by closing the telescoping antenna arms, rather than extending them, the signal is better. How’s that? Who cares? It works.

By: Maggie Dwyer

Maggie Dwyer — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 13:26:33 +0000

[slaps forehead!] Well darn, Dave, of course! And it worked! Too late to figure out if it was the milquetoast brother or the bimbo wife who killed the no-good stepson on today’s Perry Mason, but aluminum foil does the trick!