How To Install A TV Antenna To Satellite Dish 

The man just reinvented or updated/upgraded tv reception, congratulations!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻To the detractors, it works.

I'm gonna do just like you did, it looks so easy and I know it will work, going to use the dish previously installed on the roof. This is the easiest best video on hooking this stuff up, appreciate it!

Having been an installer for a satellite provider, I about piss myself laughing every time i see one of these. HOWEVER, this is not as goofy as it sounds. I set up an antenna on a dish in the same basic manner, got it aimed in the best signal direction for the channels I wanted, and eliminated all of the interference caused by matching, weaker channels coming from the opposite direction. The dish DOES do a good job BLOCKING unwanted back signals. That's about ALL it does.

I think thera are a lot of mistakes in your antenna installation. I believe you were simply lucky. To check it just install your antenna in the same direction but without the dish. I believe you you will have almost the same result. There are more mistakes but i cannot explain them here. The truth is - and i thank you for that - you gave me an very nice idea! i'll try it!

Glad it worked. The only thing Ill add is the satellite in the sky and the local tv antennas are in 2 totally different spots (most of the time), unless the satellite companies are lying to us. But seriously they are pointed in 2 different directions usually. I have plans on using my satellite pole to mount mine to as well. But the dish is pointing south west and the antennas here are south east from my location. So this is a good idea to get your antenna up high with good reception and a free mount but I do believe the directions will be different in most cases.

I just cancelled my satellite service and bought an outdoor antenna. I will be giving your design a shot and I will update my comment to indicate the results. Thank you for the video.

My husband and I did exactly the way you showed. I am thrilled. Thank you.

Thanks man, I've seen these ads before but never knew how they did it. Again THANKS.

Just awesome, I recently dropped dish and been looking at options. Going the route you took, Thanks for sharing

Pull the dish off and use the existing J pole to mount the antenna, it's just a few nuts to loosen and it slips off. The metal dish will affect the reception of the TV channels and not in a good way. Use Antennasdirect locater tool to aim the antenna. The "better tv antenna" linked is junk as it's mostly plastic and plastic doesn't pull in RF, plus plastic gets brittle and falls apart in a few years. The first one is ok. Personally recommend the "Amazon Basics HDTV Digital Outdoor TV Antenna" (Not the plastic amplified one). The Antennas Direct 2, 4, or 8 element antennas works great for pulling in signals from far away, however they are much more expensive and if you have any VHF channels (lower frequency) in your area you will need the VHF Kit.

Thank you for trying. I am glad that it worked for you. I am anxious to get rid of this $262/mo. Direct TV bill.

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I’ll be doing this tomorrow! For the time being, I stripped about 12 inches from a piece of coax cable and did a channel scan and picked up 72 channels. I can’t wait to see what I get when I get an actual antenna on the roof.

Thank you for posting this. I was searching for a video to hook up my antenna to existing wires from my dish. I am not familiar with any of this so watching your video proved a valuable find for me 😁 I am so tired of paying the fees when I don't watch that much.

This is very interesting! Btw, your living room wall behind your tv, yep.. great minds think alike! Same here!

This idea works great for me. I rent a house and not allowed to mount a antenna outside but because this old satellite dish on a pole remains I can however mount an aerial antenna to the dish and since that has a wire feeding into the house I won’t have to drill any holes for a new wire to go into the house. i’ve been using a window antenna and it does not work at all Half of the time but this work out great! Thanks

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Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe the satellite dish is pointed at a particular satellite orbiting the earth your new metal antenna will need to be pointed at the strongest TV station frequency which most likely won't be facing the sky

Awesome video going to do this with my antenna I got from Amazon can’t wait

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Bunch of negative nellies here. My next door neighbor did this and attached a similar antennae to her DirecTV dish. The coax was already in the house and connected to her TV so no need to run all that mess. The dish simply served as a mounting point, nothing more. Yes, they had to find tune the antennae to point in the correct direction of the over the air signal, not satellite signal which the dish was pointed at. There are multiple apps that you can put on your phone to search for signals and position the antennae that way. I guess some people are not old enough to remember the days of no cable and all you had was an old antennae that when you hooked it up it was nothing like this. You only got 3 local channels because that was all there was. VHF(ABC, NBC) AND UHF(CBS). I live in Tennessee and can get 45+ channels with my indoor antennae hooked to my TV's, however depending on which way my TV is facing it gets different signals. This idea is so much simpler and same signal will go to all TV connected. Just because he did not show you how he did something is no reason to say this is total BS. Go watch some other RU-vid videos and some of them have that detail.

It's more important to point the antenna at the broadcast towers than the direction your dish is pointed. You got lucky that your broadcast towers are likely south of you. My towers are north and west of me. If I pointed my antenna south I wouldn't pick up any stations, because there are no broadcast towers at sea.

Awesome man great idea. I know what I’m doing on the weekend. Thank you for the tutorial.

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Im doing it Itsa great idea , although you should aim the antenna at the direction of known TV Towers.

the dish is positioned according to satellite position in space , not broadcast towers on the ground.

Thanks man! I will try on my camper with the dish on the house.Just got rid of Dish.They ripped me off.I bet I will get more channels and good mounting point.I also see on other videos you can remove the 3 bolts on stick of satellite stand and you can move dish 360.Off the grid in woods it should help.💯💥

Thank you for your channel you sure blessed my life thank you again

The dish as nothing to do with the antenna's reception. It just makes a convenient place to mount it.

The aerial on its own will pull in from your local TV transmitter WITHOUT the dish. The LNB you took off picks up signals from the dish from the satellite. Two different methods of broadcast. There are three types for TV. Satellite, Cable and Terrestrial / over the air. Satellite and terrestrial work on different frequencies

Amazing I hope that my local area has that many channels on the air? but thanks, you are a genius.

great video man!

Such a great idea! I wonder if pointing at the TV towers might be better than pointing at the satellites? No matter for you though - 83 channels (and still nothing to watch).

Interesting way to do it. I had to install a J pole on the opposite side of the house from where the satellite dish was located, because the signals all come from the other side of the house. When they point a dish, it has nothing to do with local channels, and everything to do with where the satellites for their service is located.

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Hey I work on satellite dishes like this, I have a few notes. Firstly, this goes without saying but you should only do this if you are no longer using that dish for TV service. This would cut of the signal from the satellite. The dish is pointed to the specific position of the satellites in orbit and not pointed towards the towers that the local channels come from. The OTA signal for your local channel stations come from a tower on the ground somewhere in your city. Generally speaking satellite dishes in the US will be pointed to the south. The OTA local channel towers are generally in the middle of the city you live in. So if you live on the south side of town you'd probably want swing the dish around to the north. The best thing to do is look up a map online of there the local channel towers are and just point that direction. You should be able to use the existing wire from the satellite to your TV, but you want to avoid any diplexers or splitters that are specific to the satellite company. you might want to replace any those those with a barrel connector or standard cable splitter. Best thing to do is trace the wire down and make sure you have as direct of a connection to the tv as possible.

Placing the antenna in the same direction as the satellite has nothing to do with OTA signal.

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I like that this guy actually commented on questions that are TRUE scientific facts... Satellite dishes are pointed to guess what? Omg satellites...... Let's then turn this 🎶 music up.... Sorry some know the song so play it! I like it! Anyway tv antenna don't work that way ..BUT Wait! Don't move the satellite dish that's stupid not yet anyways..... See what you get for channels first then figure out where your most populous city is close to you and that's that antennas are usually on the hills around those cities but don't do that first I think the satellite dish itself gives a lot of reception behind the antenna ... More metal works

So does the dish actually focus transmissions onto the antenna to enhance reception or is it just being used as a a mount? You absolutely must aim the antenna at the borodcast antennas.

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I'm very glad it really worked for you Sir in getting a whole lot of TV Channels & I live in New Zealand & the SKY Satellite Dish is not Facing toward our VHF / UHF Signal as the SKY Satellite Dish is completely facing the opposite way & I would have to do a modify the mounting pole so the TV Antenna would be in line with the VHF/UHF TV Signal or wouldn't matter & my UHF Antenna is a very very long & it is the longest UHF you can get & I used to work for TV Antenna Company & that's when I brought my 2 UHF & 1 VHF Antenna but later down the track the TV Antenna Company Closed Down which was a shame & my big VHF Antenna got damaged & one of the Very Very London UHF Antenna got damaged to & so I only have One good UHF that is work good & my son Regan works with a Double Glazing Company & takes the old Aliuminum windows & doors out of houses & replacing them with Double Glazed Windows & Doors & he brings the old Aliuminum windows doors home for me to strip down & some of the old Aliuminum windows that I strip down & I have got flat a good Aliuminum pieces to repair the broken reflector on the UHF Antenna replace with Flat Aluminum Pieces instead of trying to repair the mesh that was a reflector on the UHF TV Antenna & having Flat Aliuminum Pieces should work better than having a metal Mesh Reflector & the problem I'm going to have to do to the Aliuminum Pieces I will have to get a tin of paint stripper to get the powder coat paint off the Flat Pieces of Aluminum &.once I have done that I can start making up the 2 reflectors one for top reflector & one for the bottom of the reflector & I also have to make up some elements & get a box & I already have a New balum & quite a bit RG6 Coaxial Cable to screw the RG6 to the Diaplexer & the other end to the F connector & screw that to the balum & the UHF TV Antenna should work again like a New UHF TV Antenna & if I should get more Flat Aliuminum Pieces I will make up a fairly large VHF TV Antenna & have all the other bits & Pieces to put it all together & have it working well again & it will last for years as the flat Aluminum Pieces are fairly thick to & hopefully I can get some more Flat Aliuminum Pieces & I have enough here now to make a VHF TV Antenna & then I wouldn't have enough Flat Aluminum Pieces to repair the UHF TV Antenna & at the moment I would rather fix the UHF TV Antenna Kind Regards Peter

Q: you pointed antenna at the satellite that the dish was using and not in the direction of local broadcast towers?

Hey buddy, I just wanna thank you for taking the time to help those that don't have the slightest idea on how to help themselves. Obviously you are not an electronics guru but you had an idea and acted on it, and it worked to some extent. That's a hell of allot better than slow roll criticizing what you've done and trying to offend you with disparaging remarks. Those types reveal way more about themselves by doing that than they could ever know. Being curious and experimenting is how we figure shit out. Anyway, good job.

I appreciate the info great idea tks

I like it I will try soon thanks.👍

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The sat dish is pointed at satellites, not local broadcast stations, so most people will need to re-aim the antenna to get local stations.

I have a degree in electronics and experience installing satellite TV. This will eliminate any satellite reception and about 1 in 36 chance that you will have your antenna pointed in the right direction. You would be well off to remove the satellite dish to eliminate wind loading.

Great video, thank you! One question is why did you leave the DirecTV reflector attached, and how does that affect your UHF/VHF reception?

I learned you live north of all those channels.

the satellite dish is aimed at satellites, the uhf/vhf antenna needs to be aimed at the broadcast antenna.

very cool idea!

Thanks bud!! 👍👍

The dish is no longer connected to the tv. The antenna is pulling in the stations from the towers not the satellite. The number of stations vary depending on the terrain and the tv stations in your area. All he did was use the cable which goes to all the tvs in your house.

To know where to point the antenna there are Android phone apps to show you where the towers are. One is antenna point or DTV antennas. Using the satellite cable is good because is already set up to the interior of the house, but if anything keep the dishes "J" pole, can always mount the antenna on that.

Nice, thanks for sharing!

Would the antenna work on a satelitte dish thats been mounted on the ground in concrete n what is the name of ur anttena.

The only part of this video that is correct is that you can put up an antenna and get free over the air tv but the dish doesn't help any. The dish pointed up toward the satellites it picked up the signal from so if you picked up stations in the direction the dish pointed you were just lucky the stations happened to be in that direction. I would expect that the dish behind the antenna would reflect the signal causing signal cancellation.

I so appreciate all the comments from the antenna and satellite dish experts...lol

I drove semi gone all week for 15 years, The first thing I did , when parking, is see if I could scan in some tv channels . I noticed if a semi was parked alongside me on the correct side it would act as a reflector and I would get more stations. Even some OTA antenna's have a wire grid for reflecting more signal back to the antenna. Now retired I use an old small dish network dish I purchased in 2005, sold at pilot truck stops back then . behind my out side antenna with out it channels aren't good enough in the day time to watch as I'm 45 miles out of a city

Sir. I’ve watched your video. Nice job. When I unhooked the LNB, I have three coaxial cables not one as your video shows. Which one of the three do I use? Or do I plug all three into a splitter and plug that into not the antenna?

While I am on antenna, there are some misconceptions in this video. You are only going to get as many channels as are available in your area. I only get 30 channels because that is the amount available.

Or you can remove the dish and use the J pole already there holding the Dish. I just removed mine, but plan to increase the J pole height with another pole.

I plan on this what connection changes behind the tv did you do

I live in NE Texas in the country and I have a basic air antenna thats mounted 30' high and facing SE (my only option) and I get only 8 channels facing Tyler but on a good day maybe 13 some signals coming out of Shreveport. There's no way you would get that many channels using the direction of a former Sat service. Chances are you live in a large city that may have 7 local stations. It is a known fact that digital stations lower their power in the evenings which lessens the strenght of said signal. And on windy days or during storms Im lucky to get 3 channels. So for what you are saying I have to call BS on it.

The reflector of a satellite dish is not going to aid a UHF VHF antenna in the slightest. If you don't want to take the dish down, just replace it's LNB with a $9 FTA lnb and get yourself a FTA reciever box for $40. You can tune to a bunch of satellites using KU band as the dish is made for.

Can It work in Jamaica 🇯🇲?

Good video thanks.

So I can use that one antenna with a splitter to get channels for multiple Rooms? There won't be any interferes between the signal strengths Dropping?

My main concern would be whether or not the antenna is grounded. I’m assuming the satellite dish is, after professional installation. Here, the same cable is connected to the antenna, so, would it be grounded?

It's got to say thank you man for the great tip because I was trying to think about a way to mess with my old dish antenna and you gave me the perfect way to do it so thank you so very much keep doing what you're doing you're amazing man.

Hi Savaje and the receiver is the same that was with the dish or is a new one thanks Savaje !

Satellite signals are on a different frequency than land over the air TV channels are. Satellite signals are much higher that bounce off the dish into the receiver at the middle. TV free tv channels are on a lower frequency that do not bounce instead penetrate so the dish isn't why you're getting the station. I have the same antenna you are using and it's a very good antenna.

Like mine , luckily the dish is pointed towards our broadcast stations 50 to 60 miles away . I put ours in my attic just to see how many channels we could get . When we drop dish network I’m moving the antenna to the where the dish is and using the cables that are already ran to each room in the house . I believe that’s what the poster wanted to show .

Ok I did this The idea is solid u should also invest in a signal meter, and make sure to point towards Transmitter grouding is a must and after my install I did a couple of things you might do 1 moved the dish location for line of site 2 i sed a channel master antenna combiner and added an antenna on top of the yagi to have another antenna facing damb near the closer tower wich can be independantly moved ans a preamp on it as well as a G.E 4 output amp for the house you dont really need any active element on the dish, but again ir should be grounded If. I had a tree n some power transformersn real close so I knew this Cluster would be noisey not to forget the cell towers that are in the way. So I put an inactive. Preamp on the Yagi by itself for filterring as much as I could cell noise n C.B radio also in the line of sight. I can tell when this guy is on because its visably screwing up my Fox channel. But everything else comes in and i do get a few channels more relliably than i did before. Im in a mobile park that has rules that bar me from using my own roof they said you can have the round ones so. I used to put antenna on top of kithchen cabinet and the cats kept knocking it down I thought I had gremlins ? , but if you dont like spending on a 2 or 3 hundred dollars all in one that i knew Id get sued over, this is a cheap, but effective way to enjoy the monthly bills dissappearing. I thought about some reflective tape for the Parabola another 25.00 simple add on . Of course there are options with my antenna cluster, and if your cosiderring doing this the results far outweighs the costs. Ive been laughing like a madman ever since this video came out, becase it does really work , Happy T.V to all interested in cable cutting May the T.V force be with you. Thanks

I thought a satellite dish is pointed towards the satellite (towards the sky) and the shape of the dish direct the signal towards the reciever? If so, then shouldn't the dish now be directed towards the horizon and in the direction of a TV tower? (dallas in my case) Seems to me that it would work better.

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Now you can get all the Medicaid scam advertising channels 😂

So I have a DTV dish as well. If i hook up an antenna this way, do i just connect a coax cord from the coax on any wall in the house to the TV??

Nice idea and sharing sir.

U need to waterproof the cable connection, and Terristial DTV directions have nothing to do with 14 GHz. satellite downlinks.

Do you get all the network channels? ABC, nbc, cbs, etc?

good job - cable tv bills keep going up - i have been told that you need a good outdoor antenna to pick up low power tv stations - that indoor antenna just will not pick it up - is that right ?

The dish can be used as a reflector in that way, but that needs to be tuned to a specific channel frequency. Reflectors are good if tuned correctly, but reduce signal if tuned wrong. The tuning is simply the spacing between the driven element and the reflector (dish) to result in a constructive reflected signal. Note that high frequency UHF channels are rapidly disappearing and a dish reflector becomes less and less useful at lower frequencies. The dish can also be used to block an unwanted back side channel that causes interference.

You’re totally incorrect on how to point that antenna. The satellite dish is pointed in the correct direction for satellite TV channels. The local channels unlike satellite channels aren’t being bounced off a satellite in space. For best reception, you’re supposed to point the antenna in the direction of the local stations’ broadcast towers. Also, there’s no point in actually keeping the dish. Just unbolt the entire dish off the dish mount and bolt the antenna there instead.

You're really just using the satellite mast to hold your OTA antenna. You still need to point the OTA antenna towards the broadcast towers. I just removed the dish entirely and used the mast to mount the antenna... and positioned it.

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Just use the coax wire and the mount from the dish. The dish is actually pointing to a satellite orbiting the earth, so it will not help with over-the-air signal. It may actually cause an interference with the signal.

Depends on where the majority of ota antennas are relative to your houses location will be the determination of if you have to move the dish. Where I live the dish points south and the OTA antenna is nw. One has nothing to do with the other so the statement you made that you won't have to move it is incorrect!

did you use the dish splitter for the cable wires then connected the wires right into the TV no amplifier

Can you explain how can have 2 reflectors. The dish is a reflector and the large element of the antenna is other reflector. In addition to his can a reflector for milimétric waves be usefull for decimetrica waves like the digital TV. If you have good signal strength in your area with a fish hook and a wire you can receive this decimetric signals. The sat dish is useless in this configuration.

2 questions: 1. how many stations would you get without the Dish antenna normally? and 2. The Dish would have been pointed optimally for Satelite reception, not aerial readio frequency, so how since making the video have you found a better direction for your reception??

I used to install dishes all way to 3 meter size and spent 20 years as system tech with spectrum my RF KNOWLEDGE is rather extensive and all you did was added additional reflection/ focus element to your " cheap " Walmart antenna in a sense just amplifying the receivable channels the next advantage you have is you probably live in metro area or closely clustered cities In my case the closest transmit station is 80 miles away on the other side of glacier created rim or in a sense I live in deep bowl the closest city only has 4 net works ( with digital rulings each may have as few as 2 or three channels to 12 channels each due compression That " dish is not an active antenna just paraboliç reflector

So, once I get the coax from the dish and hook it up to the antenna, do I need to connect or disconnect anything where the existing directv goes into the house? It looks like I have 4 cables that are connected to a plate on side of house.

There is another way though when I went to school for auto mechanics. I was trained on a Bear ace analyzer. All you had to do was Clamp an inductive pickup on the line, sound's like something out of an Austen Power's but it's very possible with today's technology.

Just dying inside. CABLE companies do not install dishes, it is the competition. The better use would be to remove the dish from the "arm" of the mount and put your antenna on it. LOL