Is a DirectTV antenna useful for anything

}Is a DirectTV antenna useful for anything? }... }Now before I throw the rest away, I wonder if it is useful for any }other purpose, like an antenna for broadcast stations, especially }since they are moving to digital.

It's not whether the signal is analog or digital, it's the frequency that determines the antenna type.

The dish is a parbolic reflector, which won't work on signals much "longer" (i.e. bigger wavelength) than satellite frequencies. Probably useless for UHF TV signals.

Stan.

If it's a satellite dish, it's probably for the Ku band. (around

If it has the LNB (the antenna, low noise amplifier and block converter combination) still attached, you can get a cheap digital receiver for around $100.

You can find out more information at LyngSat and Tele-Satellite magazine's websites.

You may find that it's worth the money for the FTA signals, you may not.

You also should check the satellite coverage maps to make sure that there is enough signal beamed to your location. For example, there is a set of "birds" which I can point a dish at and "see", but there is no signal at all here. Too bad, they have BBC, ITV and whole bunch of free programs my kids would like.

Geoff.

snipped-for-privacy@mendelson.com (Geoffrey S. Mendelson) wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@cable.mendelson.com:

According to:

It's 11.7 to 12.2 GHz (LOF 10.750 GHz). I don't know what LOF means.

Geoff.

LOF = Local Oscillator Frequency ? For the down converter.

Bill K7NOM

Bill Janssen wrote in news:JxUzj.5562$ snipped-for-privacy@news02.roc.ny:

yes.the IF freq coming from the LNB to the receiver is 950Mhz-1450Mhz. I always get K and Ku bands mixed up.

Get a grill the same size and use it for a Hibachi.

I was looking for something else, a tv volume regulator, and I came across this:

The two parallel curved rods, connected at the ends, are the part of the DirectTV antenna I was referring to above (which has the name TERK on it). The interesting thing is a DirectTV antenna is aimed at a satellite and therefore the extra part, wrapped around the edge, is pretty much facing down.

Yet in the picture in this url, it appears to be facing the station, and I think this is the "highly directional UHF elements". So why is it facing down on t he directtv antennal?

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This whole item is labeled Audiovox TERK HDTV o - TV antenna (HDTVO) Terk Audiovox Terk HDTV O - TV Antenna (Hdtvo)

What is the O in HDTVO? :)

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Astra 2D has a very limited footprint.

Star Trek Enterprise model

Frisbee

LMAO!

Going in a completely different direction, if you've ever seen the parabolic microphones on the sidelines at a NFL game, that could be copied.

On Mar 7, 1:06 am, mm wrote: .

The curved thingie, and the associated little yagi looking thingie that goes with it is an add-on that has nothing to do with the dish. Sold by Terk who makes various types of 'almost' antennas for restrictive spaces.

Reading the ads it seems like the 'O' in HDTVO is some sort of marketing-speak combining the terms HDTV and TiVO.

Short answer is that particular add-on contraption is intended to be a UHF-TV antenna.

-Bill

Regarding this second one, long before anyone had heard of the frisbee, back around 1952 when I was 5 and continuing for a few years, I was using coffee can lids as flying saucers. Do you remember when ooffee came in cans? With a key that caught a tab on the side at the top, and wrapped a 1/4" wide metal strip around the key from around the circumference of the can. (So the strip was ripped from the lid and from one layer of the rest of the can.)

These spun well and flew really well. Fourty feet was no trouble, and they would have gone farther if I didn't have a 7-year old's arm. But occasionally, especially when I tried to throw it farther, it abraded too much skin from the side of my index finger. Sometimes I bled. So I finally got a hammer and banged down the sharp edge, all around, but then the thing didn't fly well at all. But by now I didn't want to face the pain and blood that went with the original lid sometimes, so I gave up altogether. :(

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