He was nice enough to help people to install an antenna i am going to follow his advice. I just got rid of Direct TV myself and still have the Dish and whatever comes with it. Thanks for the advice.
My fiance has a couple of satellite dishes on her house and I was wondering if I would be able to use them as a over-the-air antenna so thanks for the tips I love watching RUclips she doesn't want to pay the extra price for spectrum and the people that lived here before had DirecTV so they got satellite dishes on their house so now I know I can use them as over-the-air programming does it make the signal stronger as it bounces off the dish that's my question
@Dustin...I was wondering about this as well. How solid is your 5 foot extension? Is there a lot of sway? I was thinking it probably should be secured to the dish pipe as well. Just took the old dish of the house I bought today, and plan on doing what you did.
I would have tidied up the loose coax to the mast with zips ties. Maybe that was done later after video. We recently went from 4 receivers on DirecTV to two. This means I have two cable runs from satellite dish to two locations that can be used for OTA antenna. Both of those locations that had a box have an indoor antenna which for now provides enough channels with good signal. Something to keep in mind.
Great video! Hey, my Dish Satellite has two coax cables that connect to a dual connector that’s attached to the house wall. How do I determine which connection to attach the single coax cable that runs from the OAT antenna? Or do I need to rip out the existing dual connector and replace with a single one? Appreciate your advice.
So basically, you are not using the Direct TV antenna - except for the antenna mount - but the coax homerun from inside house to the roof? And then the runs inside the house back to basement splitter? It doesn't look as though there's anway to use the Direct/Dish antenna only the cabling that was left in place?
I’ve been trying for months to find out where the amp is for the direct Tv satellite.....I don’t have a basement so I presume that it is in my attic since it’s on the roof of my house....I have no idea lol....it looks so easy yet so difficult haha
Sounds like a great idea. I'm curious how much of a difference this has made in the number of channels received and the quality of the picture versus using indoor antennas. Feedback from anyone who has done this would be much appreciated.
Sometimes those satellite installs use weird splitter or amplifier configurations. Follow the cable from the satellite along the house and through the attic to make sure you have a straight shot.
Awharry36 not sure, are they running from a splitter and going to two different TVs? If not I would try each through trial and error to see which works
Its called an LNB where the coax attaches that particular one is a swim LNB idk if people still do but back in the day you could sell them on eBay for some good money, surprised it worked with the Directv splitter, Comcast signal would not pass through it on my house, also if you would just leave the Directv dish mounted and just remove the LNB and install your HD Anttena in its place aiming at the dish it would amplify its signal 10fold I used to get 3 channels on a good day now I get 40+
Funny people who want to make money will say that it want work ..but if it's the same wire from satellites that are used it has to be grounded because the wiring is grounded to be able to use on a satellite and if he didn't change anything except for just hooked up the same cable that was on the satellite to an antenna
Rozell Burroughs hey not every tech grounds their connection there’s a lot of lazy techs out there however if it’s not grounded it will still work you just risk a lightning coming close to the anttena and bye bye TVs but easy for anyone to ground it themselves just buy some 12 or 10 wire at Home Depot and a ground block however there’s always a but most satellite techs do not properly ground specially if cause of site of view, trees or home owner didn’t want dish on roof he has to install the dish in other side of house far away from power meter you can bet your ass that he fake ground he just ran a ground wire into the ground and stuck a short rod in the ground maybe even put a little bit of cement so if QC guy tries to pull on the rod it won’t come of the ground and everyone thinks it’s grounded but it ain’t or he ran a ground wire all the way around the house which basically it’s too long to help or he just ground to a water pipe that looks like copper outside but once it enters the house it’s all pvc or he just won’t bother at all to ground cause he has to pay for his own ground wire and it will cost too much to properly ground or he stills your internet provider ground and leaves all your computers unprotected but the best of it all if a lightning hits your house the ground it gonna do shit it will fail 90% of the time even if properly installed unless you have a device that can’t think of the name now installed between power meter and breaker box I think it’s how it goes could be wrong it’s been a while so if power surge comes it stops dead right there and won’t enter your house I used to work for the cable company and after every lightning storm 85% of the jobs it’s replacing burned out cable boxes and modems and customers buying new TVs and computers bunches and the tons of people that got no Insurance and no money crying literally crying cause they fucked and unless you can proof it’s the cable company fault they ain’t gonna help you
Mr. Washam good job man thinking of doing this for my mother who had stage 4 melanoma liver cancer 6 years ago and is looking to save money for staying on holistic medicine treatments...screw the haters lol
Mr. Washam good job man thinking of doing this for my mother who had stage 4 melanoma liver cancer 6 years ago and is looking to save money for staying on holistic medicine treatments...screw the haters lol
Meta Cbe interesting and how odd... I just did this install for my mother as well who had stage 4 melanoma liver cancer as well...it started in her left eye and went to her liver all within 6 years....we have done hemp oil chasing it and doing CQ10 vitamins I've done all kinds of research on this cancer and I believe I've found a 3 step cure for it...it has now went to her right lung and she is now vapping hemp oil.... I'm on fb get at me Christopher dipole_kid Lewis
How can you think that a *SATELITE* dish, that is pointed at a satellite is going to be able to pick up signals from an antenna on earth!!!. Satellite dishes are made specifically to receive weak signals and concentrate them in a specific point, the LNB that cylindrical thing in from of the antenna is where all the signals are concentrated, However that LNB is made specifically for satellite signals, you need to replace it with something else, e.g. a small terrestrial antenna like the one being shown in this video.
I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Northerners don't run cable in a metal gutter unless it is to thaw the ice and I didn't detect any tobacco in your cheek. And that uncoated metal pipe and antenna you just installed to replace the Direct TV...you ever hear of ground wire son or you just like replacing tv's and chasing lightning balls around your house till they find the plumbing? And the basement portion of the video just creeps my hiny out. I'm afraid of dark places.
He was nice enough to help people to install an antenna i am going to follow his advice. I just got rid of Direct TV myself and still have the Dish and whatever comes with it. Thanks for the advice.
Thanks for watching John. Hope it works out for you. Still going strong here over 3 years later.
My fiance has a couple of satellite dishes on her house and I was wondering if I would be able to use them as a over-the-air antenna so thanks for the tips I love watching RUclips she doesn't want to pay the extra price for spectrum and the people that lived here before had DirecTV so they got satellite dishes on their house so now I know I can use them as over-the-air programming does it make the signal stronger as it bounces off the dish that's my question
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Drill a hole through straight through both pipes and put in a bolt.
@Dustin...I was wondering about this as well. How solid is your 5 foot extension? Is there a lot of sway? I was thinking it probably should be secured to the dish pipe as well. Just took the old dish of the house I bought today, and plan on doing what you did.
I would have tidied up the loose coax to the mast with zips ties. Maybe that was done later after video. We recently went from 4 receivers on DirecTV to two. This means I have two cable runs from satellite dish to two locations that can be used for OTA antenna. Both of those locations that had a box have an indoor antenna which for now provides enough channels with good signal. Something to keep in mind.
Great idea; I would've thought of it- after I'd ripped it all out and realized I had re-install everything!
I almost got there. Glad I didn't. Thanks for watching.
So u dont need a box switcher for every tv? Use the tv as the source.
They also said that you can't use an indoor antenna outside but I use one and I pick up my channels on my television with it very well
Interesting. I can't get Fox on an indoor flat antenna.
Great video! Hey, my Dish Satellite has two coax cables that connect to a dual connector that’s attached to the house wall. How do I determine which connection to attach the single coax cable that runs from the OAT antenna? Or do I need to rip out the existing dual connector and replace with a single one? Appreciate your advice.
So how long did that antenna last before the motor pre-amp go out? DId you replace it with a different antenna?
Thank you,
That little piece that looks like an eye is called the LNB
make sure it id grounded it should be from the cable ?
There is a power supply for your dish somewhere in your house.
You did not mention what you did about that.
So basically, you are not using the Direct TV antenna - except for the antenna mount - but the coax homerun from inside house to the roof? And then the runs inside the house back to basement splitter? It doesn't look as though there's anway to use the Direct/Dish antenna only the cabling that was left in place?
@@MrWasham LOL
You might benefit from installing a preamplifier to your exterior antenna and replace the passive splitter with an amplified splitter.
Used one or the other but not both.
Dude, portrait mode?
i cant have my antenna installed high from ground, because my Unit is on HOA complex. i have a Dish but it is sitting on ground.
Thank you! I was struggling with this, but figured it out after looking at your vid.
Glad it worked out for you! Thanks for watching.
Good information putting one up today your video helped a lot thank you very much
I’ve been trying for months to find out where the amp is for the direct Tv satellite.....I don’t have a basement so I presume that it is in my attic since it’s on the roof of my house....I have no idea lol....it looks so easy yet so difficult haha
Sounds like a great idea. I'm curious how much of a difference this has made in the number of channels received and the quality of the picture versus using indoor antennas. Feedback from anyone who has done this would be much appreciated.
All my local channels are great, especially the main 4, Fox, NBC, CBS, ABC
What if your DirecTV dish isn't installed on the house, mine is installed on a pole on the ground? Will it still work?
It will still work but remember the higher you can get your antenna the better the reception will be.
Yes!!!!
My coax cable from satellite doesn't seem to be transmitting , could there be a splitter blocking?
Sometimes those satellite installs use weird splitter or amplifier configurations.
Follow the cable from the satellite along the house and through the attic to make sure you have a straight shot.
there wont be any splitters near the dish
Hello im wondering its been 3 years is your antenna and conduit still holding up all this time?
Still works great, just watched the Blues win the Stanley Cup on NBC with no issues.
my dish has 2 coax cables...do I just use one and let the 2nd one be unused???
Awharry36 not sure, are they running from a splitter and going to two different TVs? If not I would try each through trial and error to see which works
It looks like on the top of your antenna that you didn't raise up the plastic array
Its called an LNB where the coax attaches that particular one is a swim LNB idk if people still do but back in the day you could sell them on eBay for some good money, surprised it worked with the Directv splitter, Comcast signal would not pass through it on my house, also if you would just leave the Directv dish mounted and just remove the LNB and install your HD Anttena in its place aiming at the dish it would amplify its signal 10fold I used to get 3 channels on a good day now I get 40+
So the ANTENNA uses the same connector configuration as the Satellite dish? What kind of antenna did you use?
I bought one from Amazon. Link in the description I think.
New title
How to remove your sat dish and place a terrestrial antenna on it"
The link in the description is for the pole only...not the antenna.
Sorry, they must have changed the link. I bought the pole at Lowes.
How did you aim the antenna?
100nortonfan used the compass on my iPhone
Dustin Washam which direction do you want it aimed?
you can look online for the degree you need to point the antenna. for STL channels in my area it was 270 degrees N if I remember correctly.
@@taranhagen9381 go to nocable.org. itll tell you where your local towers are. Point the antenna in that direction
Funny people who want to make money will say that it want work ..but if it's the same wire from satellites that are used it has to be grounded because the wiring is grounded to be able to use on a satellite and if he didn't change anything except for just hooked up the same cable that was on the satellite to an antenna
Rozell Burroughs hey not every tech grounds their connection there’s a lot of lazy techs out there however if it’s not grounded it will still work you just risk a lightning coming close to the anttena and bye bye TVs but easy for anyone to ground it themselves just buy some 12 or 10 wire at Home Depot and a ground block however there’s always a but most satellite techs do not properly ground specially if cause of site of view, trees or home owner didn’t want dish on roof he has to install the dish in other side of house far away from power meter you can bet your ass that he fake ground he just ran a ground wire into the ground and stuck a short rod in the ground maybe even put a little bit of cement so if QC guy tries to pull on the rod it won’t come of the ground and everyone thinks it’s grounded but it ain’t or he ran a ground wire all the way around the house which basically it’s too long to help or he just ground to a water pipe that looks like copper outside but once it enters the house it’s all pvc or he just won’t bother at all to ground cause he has to pay for his own ground wire and it will cost too much to properly ground or he stills your internet provider ground and leaves all your computers unprotected but the best of it all if a lightning hits your house the ground it gonna do shit it will fail 90% of the time even if properly installed unless you have a device that can’t think of the name now installed between power meter and breaker box I think it’s how it goes could be wrong it’s been a while so if power surge comes it stops dead right there and won’t enter your house I used to work for the cable company and after every lightning storm 85% of the jobs it’s replacing burned out cable boxes and modems and customers buying new TVs and computers bunches and the tons of people that got no Insurance and no money crying literally crying cause they fucked and unless you can proof it’s the cable company fault they ain’t gonna help you
Conduit pipe all i care about. Ty
Not sure I can ever trust a man who films an 'educational' video in portrait/vertical mode, but thanks for video anyway.
Mr. Washam good job man thinking of doing this for my mother who had stage 4 melanoma liver cancer 6 years ago and is looking to save money for staying on holistic medicine treatments...screw the haters lol
domn8r59 Not sure I can ever trust a man who films an 'educational' video in portrait/vertical mode, but thanks for video anyway.
Mr. Washam good job man thinking of doing this for my mother who had stage 4 melanoma liver cancer 6 years ago and is looking to save money for staying on holistic medicine treatments...screw the haters lol
Meta Cbe interesting and how odd... I just did this install for my mother as well who had stage 4 melanoma liver cancer as well...it started in her left eye and went to her liver all within 6 years....we have done hemp oil chasing it and doing CQ10 vitamins I've done all kinds of research on this cancer and I believe I've found a 3 step cure for it...it has now went to her right lung and she is now vapping hemp oil.... I'm on fb get at me Christopher dipole_kid Lewis
chris2crazzy Hemp oil? you took her to a doctor right??
Why doesn’t the dish pick up over the air signal and just give us basic channels after we get rid of our service?
How can you think that a *SATELITE* dish, that is pointed at a satellite is going to be able to pick up signals from an antenna on earth!!!. Satellite dishes are made specifically to receive weak signals and concentrate them in a specific point, the LNB that cylindrical thing in from of the antenna is where all the signals are concentrated, However that LNB is made specifically for satellite signals, you need to replace it with something else, e.g. a small terrestrial antenna like the one being shown in this video.
Btw I got 40 channels just cleaning a coax cable a hanging it in the house
Añade
That's a junk antenna you have to watch antenna man on RUclips
take a look at my new digital and hd antenna video
Now I just have to get a dvr box
If they make those, cool, if not you can always watch things on demand.
@@washamdustin on demand with an antenna? I don't even get subtitles.
I use a TIVO bolt
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Might works ,but looks hideous on top of a 🏠!
Funny
I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Northerners don't run cable in a metal gutter unless it is to thaw the ice and I didn't detect any tobacco in your cheek. And that uncoated metal pipe and antenna you just installed to replace the Direct TV...you ever hear of ground wire son or you just like replacing tv's and chasing lightning balls around your house till they find the plumbing? And the basement portion of the video just creeps my hiny out. I'm afraid of dark places.
it not in gutter it under the roof tiles big difference
free antenna TV najib Bey go to RUclips and put in free antenna TV najib Bey and you'll see how I did it with a paper clip and use coax
So u bought a antenna! Wtf!
You just used the mounting hardware from the dish? Very lame video not worthy.
Clyde Barrow well thank you for your opinion Clyde. I thought it was rather smart, but you obviously know better