TV antenna with weather vane

The antenna is made of two 0.5 liter beer cans, secured with four M5 screws with two nuts on each to a wooden plank. To get inside the cans when bolted, a U-shaped technological window is cut through the top of the cans with a knife, then it is bent. After installation, the technological windows are bent to their original position, and 1 hole is pierced from the bottom of the cans with an awl, protecting the cans from the accumulation of rainwater. The gap between the banks is 5 centimeters.

On the back side of the bar, a jumper made of a piece of aluminum wire (wire diameter 3 mm), bent like an accordion, is attached to the bolts farthest from the center. Old disks serving as reflectors are attached to the same bolts. In the disks, you must first drill (burn) a hole with a diameter of 5 mm. We attach the TV cable to the bolts that remain free. We attach the entire structure to a round wooden stick (possibly a piece of a shovel handle). We will secure this stick with a metal clamp to some structure. If necessary, the antenna can be rotated with this mount for tuning.To make a weather vane, you need to take a 1.5 liter PET bottle, cut off the bottom, and randomly shaped fragments were cut out in the front part (for better airflow). The tail section is made from a plastic clothing tag.

A hole is made in the bottle cap and, using an M5 bolt and nuts, a propeller taken from a children's toy is secured. If desired, it can be easily cut from thin tin or sheet aluminum. The weather vane is secured to the end of a round stick in the middle of the bottle using a long screw. This antenna has shown excellent results in signal reception, and it can also be used to constantly determine the direction and strength of the wind. It is located in the country and also performs the function of scaring away birds to protect the crop from pecking. When there is wind, the propeller makes sounds that frighten the birds.