My TV is located in the basement. It is currently hooked-up and wired with DirectTV cable. I plan to stop my cable service to save money and will switch to over the air TV. I plan to set-up an exterior HD tv antenna to get good reception and more tv channels. Can I use the existing cable wires to install an exterior HD tv antenna? If so, how to do it? Or can I just unhook the end of the cable that's attached to the dish and put it on the new antenna?? Would that work?? Please help! Thanks!
How can I set up an exterior HD tv antenna to an existing cable wires?
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you should be able to just hook the on air antenna to the cable on the dish. cable/sat/antenna all use the same type cable. swap the dish for your antenna and hook the same cable up and it should be fine. i did this years ago and had no trouble and i assume things have not changed so much that it won't still work.
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i had dish before, i believed they used a standard coax. if it's long enough you should be able to run that coax from your tv to your new over the air HD tv antenna. my mom does that it's pretty awesome and it's free. what antenna where you thinking about getting? and are you using a hd tv flat screen? they have a built in thing where it will auto scan hd signals over a HD antenna.
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