So one of the Days of Deals sales from Dell was a 32″ LCD TV for $549…and well I couldn’t say no and jumped on the flat screen wagon. A couple of days later it arrived at work and of course must be fully tested….. It comes with a built-in ATSC tuner allowing for receiving HD programming OTA.

This required us to get a bit creative in coming up with a suitable antenna to test the reception.

The following components were used:

• A Paper Clip
• A Slinky
• A Trolley

Unfortunately we didn’t get any signal for CBC-HD, but we were able to tune into some Maury Povich where the topic of the day was “My mom is too fat to dress so sexy”…oh yeah…that’s right kids!

Anyways here are a few shots of the slinky antenna