My buddy the electrician swore tin foil on antennae works. He was right.
So I'm trying to watch the local news on my old Samsung TV in the garage, and the picture is all static. I live out near Springfield, about 15 miles from the tower, and my little indoor antenna just wasn't cutting it. My buddy Mike, who rewired his whole house himself, told me to just tape a sheet of aluminum foil to the back of the antenna and point it out the window. I laughed at him, called him a hillbilly, but I was desperate. I grabbed a piece from the kitchen, taped it on, and I'll be darned if I didn't get crystal clear channels for the first time in a year. It looked stupid, like a weird art project, but it worked for three months until I finally broke down and put an attic antenna up. Has anyone else gotten a dumb hack like this to actually work when you were sure it was junk science?