Final Touch on Our Apacer Antenna

Assalamualaikum and hi all!
Finally, we have come to the final stage of our Apacer Antenna. As what we have mentioned in previous updates, we will do some renovation on our Apacer Antenna to make it more interesting and can have more signal reception. So, here is our final touch on our Apacer Antenna 😎.

Tadaaa!!

We have fully coated our antenna with aluminium foils and as what you can see, it looks so stunning and shimmering! It is not just the look that is stunning but also our Apacer Antenna functioned very well as a homemade antenna to get best signal for HDTV.

Here we will show how the antenna perform when it is to be connected to HDTV, and our discussion from the beginning which included cost, time, material used and many more. Let's watch this video, and we guarantee you that it will worth your 8 minutes time😍😍 !

How do you think about our Apacer Antenna after watching the video😎😎. Told yaa, it is superb and amazing hihi. So now, do you interested and considerate RM 10 to buy our Apacer Antenna?? Hihi, we are just kidding😜😜😜.

And you can click on this link 👉 Report of Our Apacer Antenna to see our report throughout the 'manufacturing' of our Apacer Antenna.

Last but not least, this Antenna and Propagation course has taught us a lot in many terms especially teamwork, creativity, time management, making decision, understanding between group members and it took forever to list them all 💕 We  would like to thank each other for the teamwork that we have attained throughout this assignment process until we have reached to this point. *bro fist*. And of coursee to you, thank you for your time reading our blog since the beginning. That's all from us 💕

Do pray for us to get best mark for this assignment too 💋💋💋

Antenna Design and Fabrication

Assalamualaikum and hi to all.

We are recently in week 13 for our academic lecture. As what we have discussed last week, we wanted to do the finalized design for our Apacer Antenna this week. So below is the progress for this week activities which we make the antenna more stable in which we tighten the attachment of the cans to the hole of the bottle by using suitable dimension of the hole at the bottle as the same as the dimension of the screw to avoid them loosely tied up.

And then, we divide the wire conductor into 2 parts, which 1 part of 2 wire conductors from 2 cans are bind together while the other part with 3 wire conductor of 3 cans. This two part of wire conductors are divided to be connected to coaxial cable.

After the antenna has completed, we try to test the antenna to the HDTV.

From the TV screen, we can see that there are many losses and noise in our antenna that given such signal result. 

For this reason, we think of redesigning our antenna to get more signal reception because it might be the can's material did not receive more signal. We will coat all of our Apacer Antenna design will aluminium foil to receive more signal which aluminium has higher conductivity. Stay tuned!

Apacer Antenna Updates

Assalamualaikum and hi all.
The updates for this week Apacer Antenna project progress, we are in the phase of making the antenna by sticking the 5 cans around the plastic bottle that we have cut last week.

Then, we make the base for our antenna by using a box replacing the plywood that we planned to use in our design before. The idea of this base is to stabilize the position of our Apacer Antenna so that when we get the best signal, it can have the stable position to be placed.

Next, we went to Multimedia Lab to make the holes for our PVC pipe. The upper part of PVC pipe holes will be used to bind the 4 PVC pipes together by using a conductor wire, while the bottom part will be used to bind the PVC pipe to box sheet as in our design in Apacer Antenna Design.

Meanwhile, we are searching for suitable coaxial cable or HDTV cable to be connected to our Apacer Antenna.

In the following week, we will complete our Apacer Antenna and make the video for our presentation. We hope that our Apacer Antenna meet the Dr Alyani's requirements and get the signal successfully. That's all from us for this week. Thank you, bye!

Progress of Apacer Antenna

Assalamualaikum and good evening, this week we are continuing with our Apacer antenna project in  designing and start in making Apacer antenna. Firstly the design of antenna is shown as below as our reference to make this antenna. After that, we start making holes at the bottom of the 5 recycle cans and cut the plastic bottle into quarter. The aim is to screw the 5 recycle cans to the plastic bottle to form an antenna. The design as as below:

HDTV Apacer Antenna

Assalamualaikum wbt. This week, we are going to discuss and decide on which antenna type that we will use for our Apacer Antenna project. After all the discussion and the surveys that we had conducted last week, we have decided to do the HDTV Antenna.

The list of required components for the antenna are listed below:

1. 1.5 or 2.5 liter soda bottle

2. 5 aluminium cans

3. 5 screws with nuts

4. 5 cm of wood

5. Wire conductor

5. Coaxial cable coupler/HDMI cable

6. 12 inches x 12 inches of plywood/box

The steps in making the antenna project are as follow: 

Firstly, the antenna are made with 1.5 or 2.5 liter bottle, 5 aluminium cans, 5 screws with nuts, 1 section of 5 cm of wood, 1 "optional" fan base such as plywood or box to make it as a base of the antenna. the antenna are screw directly onto a wooden stick and put it in a suitable place on your roof.

Next, 1 "optional" coaxial cable coupler can be placed directly to the coaxial cable one side to the mesh and the other to the center. The antenna has excellent reception and easy to install in your home. If you do not have a drill, the holes can be made up with a nail that is of the measurement of the screw.

The reasons why we chose this type of antenna is because it used minimum cost to build this antenna. Apart from that, the required material is easy to get and quite familiar. Next, we have a lot of references on this HDTV antenna that enable and help us to implement this antenna. Finally, this HDTV antenna is affordable and easy to install. 

Introduction to Our Homemade Antenna

Assalamualaikum and a very good evening everyone. We are from Apacer Antenna group would like to present to all of you on our homemade antenna by using recycle material such as cans, bottle and etc.

Group members

Muhammad Amirul Arif Bin Othman
Muhammad Anas Rizal Bin Mustafa
Nur Aqilah Binti Johari
Nor Faizah Binti Abd Kgupor


The references of our homemade antenna is listed below:

http://www.instructables.com/id/Build-a-DIY-Recycled-Antenna-To-Get-Free-TV/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdDpzlZ8zPs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8EYPM912Tw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9hIziZrrK8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkqNPl4_4o0