Re: Can I use a Hughes Satellite Dish for an antenna?

On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 13:31:40 GMT Dave Oldridge <doldridg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

| The dish itself will be of no real help. But you might be able to mount an
| outdoor UHF antenna where the dish is now located and use the existing RG6
| to bring the signal into your ATSC tuner.

Why would the dish be of no help? Is it too small for UHF?

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