School me on OTA for Dish

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Gdetrailer wrote:
Your "Dish" should already get local CBS, ABC, NBC, PBS stations, those are typically located below Dish channels 100.

To recieve your local OTA channel directly, you do not need the Dish system, plug in a antenna DIRECTLY to your TV sets ANTENNA/CABLE coax input.

Once you have the antenna connected, change TV from your Dish input (HDMI, Component or Composite and select Antenna/OTA/Cable from your TVs menu.

Once you on the antenna/cable input you need to do a channel scan.

Once scan has completed you now can watch your local OTA channels.

Yes, it means you must switch between inputs and yes, you will not have DVR capability but you now get all of the local channels plus the sub channels and it didn't cost anything other than the antenna..

Note: The OP stated it's for his S&B home (not an RV).

As "BB TEX" also stated.......
An OTA antenna connected directly to your TV is easy!

DISH now with locals - but when I had DirecTV - didn't happen often, but during heavy rain (etc.) the sat signal would pixilate. Switch over to OTA for locals worked fine, no interruption of the signal/s.

I used a (IMO - "Clear Stream") outdoor antenna (about $60 at Costco) mounted on the eve of the house (about 15 ft high) facing the direction of my locals - which are at least 50 miles away.

Antenna looks like a single plastic "figure 8" on a BBQ grill (LOL) - about 18" square.

Receives ALL - with great HD picture.
*If* DISH has any probs - it's still ready to do its thing!...:C

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DFord wrote:
Edd505 I don't think you understand the difference between satellite signals that need a receiver to decode and make available for viewing on a TV and OTA signals that come over the air from the broadcast station to an antenna usually on the roof and connect to the TV's antenna port. They need no decoding and you don't pay to receive them. To view them, you need to do a channel scan on your TV and save the results. Nothing from the satellite antenna is ever interconnected, spit or converted before it goes to the receiver. If you tried to spit that cable, the receiver wouldn't work and you'd never see anything from the satellite.

Two separate cables for two distinctly different purposes.

You can split the signal from the OTA antenna on the roof to feed the signal to two TVs. The output of the satellite receiver can be spit for two TVs but the signal from the satellite dish must go directly to the receiver and nowhere else.

Your correct I do not understand. I would abandon the cable & OTA use and use that cable to feed sat signal to second set. Bill says the HDMI could be split to two TV's and a single sat out. I actually have about a half dozen Wally's in my shop my son has acquired.

2 use 2 satellite TV receivers you would need an antenna with a dual output so you could run 2 separate coax cables directly to each receiver. The HDMI output from 1 receiver could be run to 2 different TV's. OTA TV is an entirely separate subject but has nothing at all to do with the cabling used for satellite TV.

Edd505 I don't think you understand the difference between satellite signals that need a receiver to decode and make available for viewing on a TV and OTA signals that come over the air from the broadcast station to an antenna usually on the roof and connect to the TV's antenna port. They need no decoding and you don't pay to receive them. To view them, you need to do a channel scan on your TV and save the results. Nothing from the satellite antenna is ever interconnected, spit or converted before it goes to the receiver. If you tried to spit that cable, the receiver wouldn't work and you'd never see anything from the satellite.

Two separate cables for two distinctly different purposes.

You can split the signal from the OTA antenna on the roof to feed the signal to two TVs. The output of the satellite receiver can be spit for two TVs but the signal from the satellite dish must go directly to the receiver and nowhere else.

Bill.Satellite wrote:
If you add an HDMI splitter and output both to 2 TV's (assuming both TV's have an HDMI connection, that all you need. Not sure what you mean by unscrambled.
Getting a 2nd coax into your RV is often a simple job. You just need to be creative and figure out a simple route from outside to the 2nd receiver. It does not need to come in the same place your current connection exists.

I meant if I use the single antenna into a coax splitter I would need a second box to do what ever it does to make the signal viewable. If I get an HDMI splitter I still need to get that run to the second TV. I tried to replace a coax and it's attached some where I can not see. If I had the antenna with 2 out I might be able to use the coax from the cable connection. I don't use it with the satellite signal available.

If you add an HDMI splitter and output both to 2 TV's (assuming both TV's have an HDMI connection, that all you need. Not sure what you mean by unscrambled.
Getting a 2nd coax into your RV is often a simple job. You just need to be creative and figure out a simple route from outside to the 2nd receiver. It does not need to come in the same place your current connection exists.

Out puts HDMI on the Wally. I could add a splitter in the coax in but it would need unscrambled at the second TV. An antenna with two out means I need two coaxes in. My RV has satellite connections on the roof and in the wet bay so even using both of those I have coax hanging outside. I use the wet bay connection and come in beside the water hose.

If you want to watch satellite TV from 1 receiver on 2 TV's you just have to add an splitter and figure out how to route the cable from the receiver to the 2nd TV. As I said, most antennas also support 2 receivers. The Tailgater has only 1 output for a 2nd receiver but the Tailgater Pro has 2. Most other domes also have 2 outputs.

Bill.Satellite wrote:
Nearly all DISH receivers can be connected to multiple TV's (same channel on each) or a 2nd receiver can be installed to connect to the 2nd TV. Nearly all portable antennas will support 2 receivers.

Dish tailgater & Wally, how do you do more than one.