Antenna Short Story

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Damasio once told me an interesting story that I thought it's worth sharing with people here.

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In the early 50's Brazil had the debut TV transmission. Back then, Damasio, a youg 'lad' lived in a remote place in the south of Brazil.
TV signal was received in a lot of places in the south region (although not so clear) but no reception in his region.
There were no 'affiliated' or 'repeater' stations as now.

Well this youg man had the idea of building a system employing a 'rombic-conic' antenna and a self made receiver to try to pick up the signals. Everyday he used to climb the antenna structure to change its position and also to scan the receiver for carrier waves, etc.. Nothing. All he had was 'whitenoise'.
Then one day at night, he had the idea which would revolutionize the long range detection forever. He applied it to the antenna, wrote some calculations and made some modifications in the circuit.
A couple of days went by, one more day, nothing. Then of the next day scaning the spectrum, he finally did it.
He got the cleanest ever signal reception from the TV, as if it was being broadcast from his house!
People in his region almost freaked and technicians from the government were called to watch the reception. Later the first 'repeater' station was built there and no need for the structure anymore.
This technology was moved from this apparatus to the 'two box' detectors and LRL Mineoro builds today.