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I've got a rooftop mounted medium directional antenna w/pre-amp on a rotor, so my local OTA stations come in very nicely, at least when I connect directly to my TV, or to a VCR and then to the TV. However, when I route through the "antenna in" on my Satellite receiver, the reception is noticeably worse, so I don’t connect this way.
I'm switching from Dish Network to direct TV, and just got my Hughes E-86 HD receiver. New dish & service is not installed yet, but last night I connected my antenna signal to the HD receiver just to check out the OTA digital broadcasts.
Just like with my DishNetwork receiver, the OTA analog channels were noticeably worse, maybe even more. This is quite frustrating, since now I have to route the antenna signal through the SAT receiver if I want to see local digital channels, but I don’t want to ruin the reception on the many analog channels I still want to watch. I can probably split the antenna signal and connect one half direct to my TV & the other to the HD receiver, but splitting will probably diminish the quality of the picture anyway.
This doesn't make sense, particularly since routing the signals through VCRs doesn't seem to have the detrimental effects like on both Satellite receivers. I cant imagine the SAT receivers are made such that this is to be expected, so something must be wrong.
The only thing I can guess (a wild guess since I have no technical understanding that suggests this is the cause) is that maybe my SAT being ungrounded has something to do with it? The guys that did the Satellite installation several years ago never bothered to ground the dish or use a ground block where the coax enters my house, and I've always wondered what ill effects this might be producing? My SAT picture has always been quite nice, so you know - if it ain't broken don’t fix it.
I would really appreciate if anyone has any advice here, before I call DishNetwork or Direct TV and pray that I get a technician who knows something.
Thanks.
I'm switching from Dish Network to direct TV, and just got my Hughes E-86 HD receiver. New dish & service is not installed yet, but last night I connected my antenna signal to the HD receiver just to check out the OTA digital broadcasts.
Just like with my DishNetwork receiver, the OTA analog channels were noticeably worse, maybe even more. This is quite frustrating, since now I have to route the antenna signal through the SAT receiver if I want to see local digital channels, but I don’t want to ruin the reception on the many analog channels I still want to watch. I can probably split the antenna signal and connect one half direct to my TV & the other to the HD receiver, but splitting will probably diminish the quality of the picture anyway.
This doesn't make sense, particularly since routing the signals through VCRs doesn't seem to have the detrimental effects like on both Satellite receivers. I cant imagine the SAT receivers are made such that this is to be expected, so something must be wrong.
The only thing I can guess (a wild guess since I have no technical understanding that suggests this is the cause) is that maybe my SAT being ungrounded has something to do with it? The guys that did the Satellite installation several years ago never bothered to ground the dish or use a ground block where the coax enters my house, and I've always wondered what ill effects this might be producing? My SAT picture has always been quite nice, so you know - if it ain't broken don’t fix it.
I would really appreciate if anyone has any advice here, before I call DishNetwork or Direct TV and pray that I get a technician who knows something.
Thanks.