Sky Dish used for Terrestial TV?

keith_d99 · 13-01-2009 4:16pm #1

Is there such thing as a satellite dish that can also be used as an aeriel - for terrestial TV?

Cheers,
Keith.

rlogue · 13-01-2009 5:05pm

I've never tried to wire up a Chicken Tikka Masala to get BBC 1 but it might be worth trying sometime. How would you get the wires to stick??

keith_d99 · 13-01-2009 5:08pm

Was it really worth typing that? - I'll tell you what I'll edit my original post

Onikage · 13-01-2009 5:14pm

No but you can put a dish and an aerial on the same pole and use diplexors to combine and split the signal so there is only one cable going in to the house. Of course, you are probably better off running a few cables anyway to future-proof for PVRs.

keith_d99 · 13-01-2009 5:59pm

Thanks Onikage, The reason I ask is that a friend of mine has had a new satellite installed and the guy installed it removed the coaxial from the aerial and it is now joined in a junction box to a cable coming from the sat dish. So now he has two cables going coming in from the satellite. Both are going into the sat box. Then the there is a 3 way splitter allowing the coaxial to go back to the bedrooms for terrestrial tv and also the sky feed.

I never heard of this set up and was trying to understand how it worked. How is the terrestrial tv getting broadcast?

Sky Dish used for Terrestial TV?

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