TV without an antenna in Charlotte

[frewroad]

Originally Posted by rdub1968

I went up on my roof to remove the Dish Network satellite and installed a roof antenna. Problem is, there were 2 cables attached to the dish......

I don't have a recommendation for an antenna installer. However this might help.

The two connections going to the dish antenna are for two different receivers. If you had two receivers, then one cable will lead to one receiver's location, the other to the other receiver's location. Remove any Dish devices (typically look like a splitter) on these lines as they won't pass TV frequencies. You should be able to hook the antenna to one of these and it should work where ever the receiver was located. You could put a splitter on the antenna, and hook up both lines. However this might require a pre-amp depending upon the length of the cable.

If you had more than two Dish receivers, then the two cables would lead to a device that would look like a splitter and then cables from each,would go to each receiver. (Some older Dish 2 receiver setups used this device too.) Remove the "splitter looking device" and throw it away. Purchase a standard coax double sided connector and connect to the input cable and whatever cable leads to the room where a previous receiver was installed. If you want to connect all of these to your antenna, it's possible, but you might need a distribution amplifier.

I would try to get it to work with just one line, then take it from there.

[rdub1968]

Thanks frewroad, I will give it a shot.