Dish for HD
Greetings to all. I recently upgraded to HD in my motorhome. I got the winegard dish installed on the roof and it works great. Before I upgraded to HD I used a Kingdome and carried another dish wit...
Forum Discussion
RoyB wrote:
Bill.SATELLITE - I am a OLD SAT TV guy before HDTV came out.
Reading the comments I see you need to point to three separate satellites 99-101-103 to be able to watch HDTV.
Of course here on OTA antennas you only need one signal to be able to watch HDTV.
I guess it is a bandwidth problem or maybe some sort of decoding one has to do to be legal???
Just curious how it all works... I guess I could look it up online but why not just ask the master hehe...
Roy Ken
How many channels do you get with your OTA antenna? How many hundred more are being broadcast via satellite. More channels more transponders. Run out of transponders (transmitters) put up another satellite with more transponders and you can broadcast more channels.
OTA TV is very limited as all of the broadcasts must be transmitted on the UHF and VHF frequencies channels 2-52 (due to be reduced again to 2-36 IIRC. Additionally, few markets even have channels 2-6 available so you will eventually be down to channels 7-36.
