Will this work with Cable and OTA antenna? I have Cable service and DTV antenna but my tv has only one coaxial input and looking for combiner but most combiners are satellite and DTV.
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I have dish network and use it for when I don't get a signal. it works great so far.
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Yes. I have not tried diplexing cable & DTV, but its easy enough to test by hooking up the system(s) you want to use. My use was limited to DTV & outside OTA antennas with amplifiers, diplexing is an easy way to eliminate xtra wiring. In diplexing the signal inputs are combined, the outputs are separated. Hope this helps. Don
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This unit will not do what you want. It will allow a single cable to carry the satellite signal that goes between the dish and the satellite set top box plus one of almost any other TV or FM signal. The second signal can come from the output of a set top box, from cable tv or from an FM or DTV antenna. You generally need two of these, one to combine the signals on one end of the single cable and another to separate the two signals on the other end. If you are trying to combine DTV with the signal coming directly from the cable company, I don't know of a way to do that. Both signals are in the same frequency range so you would need an RF A-B switch to manually switch from one cable to another. http://www.amazon.com/RCA-VH71-Slide-Switch/dp/B00009W3F2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1393281571&sr=8-1&keywords=RF+A-B+switch. If you are wanting to combine analog Channel 3 or 4 from the output of a cable box with the DTV signal, that can generally be done with a UHF/VHF combiner used to combine a VHF antenna with a UHF antenna. The DTV would go to the UHF input and the set top box would go to the VHF. http://www.amazon.com/Radioshack-Combiner-150-2586-Gold-Plated-Connectors/dp/B001VLPQ6K/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1393281247&sr=8-2&keywords=uhf%2Fvhf+combiner.
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Hello and thank you for contacting us. Unfortunately I cannot guarantee that this item will work with an over air antenna. I am sorry and if there is anything else I can do for you or if you have any other questions please let me know. Sincerely, Chris Nickels Red Planet Trading
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If there is a TV antenna connected to the other end of the coax, it will work. I use mine with a pair of rabbit ears and have it connected to a computer monitor with a DVI to HDMI cable (included). If you have a cable subscription, I would think that your provider would have provided a box with an HDMI output. In which case, you wouldn't need the Kworld tuner. But I am not familiar with all cable providers and exactly what they provide.
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Sort of...but you have to use the pair. Your Dish receiver will have a coaxial input (F-connector) for each input, SAT and VHF/Antenna. Simply connect the satellite coax to the SAT side and the antenna to the VHF side. At the other end, where your receiver is, connect a short cable from each to the appropriate F-connector in the back of the Dish box. Hopefully that is what you are wanting to do. Good luck!
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I don't recommend trying to mix Dish equipment with anything else. If it works, you got really lucky. They are even touchy about what splitters/combiners used with specific equipment. If you don't have solid advice from someone who understands satellite gear pretty well, don't bother. Equipment specific to Dish Network can be a mystery.
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Should work with any antenna feed that is coax. Plug antenna into "RF In" port. Works best with external antenna mounted outside the house or in the attic. The fewer connectors there are between the antenna and the amp is best to minimize signal loss. Good luck!
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I would be very interested in a work around for this as well... would you be able to add a "combining splitter" (?) that would channel both a uhf antenna and a separate vhf antenna coax cables into single coax cable to the TV or Digital tuner?... that's the only thing I could think of, but I have no idea if it would work...
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Coax for antenna is not necessarily the same as coax output of a cable box.For example, what if the tuner was only an ATSC tuner and not an analog tuner? Then it definitely wouldn't work. (Also, [obsolete] analog OTA & analog cable [which is disappearing for most] differ above a certain channel.)
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This is a combiner. It takes two antennas and combines the received signals on one coax cable. It does not increase signal strength.
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I have a Samsung HDTV and the Best Buy guy said I could tape ota to vhs/dvd (tv mode no channel 3) if i connect the antenna through coaxil cable to the player and tv. only two ends to the cable. any adaptors or splitters or anything to help accomplish this conundrum?
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I really don't know since I never tried it with an antenna. It did help with my cable connection being split among multiple TV's.
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I mounted my antenna near my old satellite dish and used that cable and it works great. I would imagine that cable wouldn't be any different...coax is coax. Also, in case you are interested, I am using a TIVO dvr which costs $15 a month which allows me to record regular TV shows and also streams Netflix, Pandora etc...
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Yes, you can hook up to any box top, cable, satellite with coaxial cable or rf jacks. You also have a jack for headphones. I love this unit, it came in handy with the ice storm when power went out. I was out in the country and able to get local broadcasting for the weather, then I played DVDs so I wasn't bored. Great little unit.
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You CAN'T. The DTA-800B1 does NOT work for cable television. It only is capable of receiving and decoding over-the-air digital broadcast television channels (a format called "ATSC"), not cable channels (using a format called "QAM").
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NO. This unit ONLY works with ATSC over the air digital channels. It will not work with cable TV signals at all.
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Yes - that is the same setup I'm running. Keep in mind, if you're running an antenna on the same set of coax - it will not work correctly.
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I'm not sure what you are needing an antenna for...TV or radio. I have this unit, hooked up to our cable system that we have for our other TV. Works great on cable; I don't know if you can use it with an antenna or not. Sorry! D.Minton