Can I use any random antenna to receive broadcast signals?

17 views  May 9, 2023
No. Quoting Shakespeare’s King Lear, Nothing will come of Nothing. By choosing a poor antenna, or an antenna whose frequency operating range is not appropriate for the location receiving scenario, the signals received will probably be impaired, noisy or fuzzy and an amplifier or signal booster will not be able to fix them, as the amplification of noise only produces additional noise. Even though the signal strength may be dramatically increased by an amplifier, this will never ever be able to get rid of the signal noise in the input, so the output signals will always be impaired regardless of the amplifier used.

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