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    I recently added a TV tuner PCI card in my CarPC and now I am looking for a suitable antenna.
    The antennas that are sold in car stereo shops for the usuall car tv tuners (Clarion, Alpine etc) are nice and they seem to perform well, but cannot be used in my setup 'cause they use diversity antennas and have four (4) connectors for the receiver.
    I searched the forum for answers and found out that some of you are using the car's radio antenna. I don't like the idea for two reasons:
    1) I doesn't sound technicaly right since, UHF TV stations use different frequency=wave length than FM stations, so the length of the antenna obviously is not optimal.
    2) Is not easy for me to run the radio antenna cable to the trunk.

    So, what I need is either some kind of adapter/mixer that will compbine the signal from the commercial diversity antennas into one output that will plug in my TV tuner card.
    OR, just a decent compact antenna for car use.
    Radio Shack has one that's bumerang shaped (the kind that limos have) but I can't find it in stock (and is too flashy for my taste!).

    Could anybody help?

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    Just try the car radio antenna, you might be suprised.. , you'll get quite a good reception on some channels, but not as good on others..
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    yah i use the radio antenna and i split the signal to FM and VHF/UHF for my USB TV tuner. Like mp3kid said, some channels come out good...some doesn't. BUt its not like I watch tv much in the car hehe
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    You just need to get a powered TV antenna. Just search for it on google.
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