Originally Posted by
TheGnome
Would you have a link or something to support this? Just offhand I plain don't believe this.
Most of what you call static is thermal noise generated in the receiver. Very little is picked up by the antenna as you could see when you disconnected it.
Also I think there is only little background radiation from the Big Bang in the VHF and UHF range (up to about 1 GHz) that could be picked up by a TV receiver.
I would be quite interested if you could prove me wrong. That would be one more thing I didn't get.