School me on OTA for Dish
I need to possibly buy/install an OTA for my Dish Hopper. As far as I know I need the antenna and an adapter. Looking to keep it as cheap as possible due to it being a temporary fix to be able to get ...
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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.
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.
