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Satellite to aerial connector

I can't get an aerial signal but have satellite but is there a connector to turn my satellite cable into an aerial cable. As I want to use the aerial connection on my tv to record live to to usb. I can't do this on the satellite connection .

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  • emptybox
    emptybox Posts: 442 Forumite
    edited 23 October 2016 at 5:36PM
    It's difficult to know exactly what you are trying to achieve, but the satellite dish would need to be connected to a satellite tuner (DVB-S/S2), either on the TV or on a satellite box connected to the TV.

    Although the cable is essentially the same, and you can certainly buy an adaptor to allow you to physically connect it to the RF input of a DVB-T/T2 tuner, you wouldn't get any joy.

    I presume your TV allows you to record to a connected USB drive, but probably only from the internal tuner in the TV, not from a connected box?
    Have a look in the manual for your satellite box to see if it allows recording to USB.
  • googler
    googler Posts: 16,103 Forumite
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    dexterwolf wrote: »
    I can't get an aerial signal but have satellite but is there a connector to turn my satellite cable into an aerial cable. As I want to use the aerial connection on my tv to record live to to usb. I can't do this on the satellite connection .

    If you connect your satellite cable (presumably connected to a dish) to an aerial input on a TV, you'll get nothing. Absolutely nothing.
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