Uhf Hdtv

October 31st, 2010 admin Leave a comment Go to comments

Can a tv sat dish pick up the UHF hdtv signals?

I moved into a house that had an old Direct TV sat dish mounted outside. I do not want their service but was wondering if I go to the trouble of connecting it to my TV will I get any UHF digital signals? Where we live now , my indoor UHF antenna is next to useless.

If it works at all, it will only be because you have a random hunk of metal stuck in the air. You could do better with a cable attached to an aluminum lawn chair.

You’ll be happier with a proper outside TV antenna. You could mount it near the satellite dish and use the same RG6 downlead.

Use the web site below to guide you as to what type antenna you need to get the stations in your area.
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Andrew’s answer is quite incorrect. A parabolic satellite reflector and its LNB are designed to accept a specific range of satellite frequencies and reject all others. Any antenna, whether it’s satellite or anything else, only receives unintended frequencies because any piece of metal stuck in the air can capture some tiny level of signal voltage and send it down a connecting cable. Such off-frequency signals are so weak as to be nearly, if not totally unusable. That’s exactly what you should expect in this example.

The answer to your question is the one I’ve given above: don’t count on a satellite antenna for over-the-air TV reception. Get a proper over-the-air antenna.

OTA in the GTA – Ajax – 35 analog and digital channels