I thought I would post this writeup I did on making an antenna for use to pick up HDTV over the air signals out in the fringe areas. I know plenty of people here live out in the sticks and may find this cheap DIY (and bulletproof) solution agreeable.

After looking on the web for antennas to pick up local channels out in fringe areas I basically was discouraged to see the options available to me were all north of 100 bucks, with no guarentee they would work at the 70 mile range I needed. I dug around a bit more and found some online plans to make clones of the more popular models, notably DB4 and DB8.