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installed the satellite disk from say Direct TV or any satellite TV providers disk as an FM antennae? If so what was your experiences with it? is the signal you recieved from it just as good as the normal outdoor antennae?
Just wondering because I inhereted a satellite disk and I'm thinking about installing it on the roof to be used as an FM antennae.
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If it gets a signal it will be despite its design and you probably don't need anything more than a whip.
Certainly won't be directional.
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Timothy Bailey
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If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing well
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A satellite dish is designed for signals in the GHz region whereas FM operates at 88-108 MHz which is about 1/10th the frequency of a satellite TV signal. Conversely a FM signal is a wavelength about 10 times the size of a wavelength at the satellite TV signal wavelength. To adequately capture a FM band signal requires an antenna with element/s at least 1/4 to full wavelength.
You might find a use for the dish type antenna if you were an amateur radio experimenter in the multi-GHz region, otherwise it will probably just be a nice spot for birds to roost.
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