Two into One Ariel Connections

[wiskid]

I was on Sky with a satellite dish but have since changed to talktalk and youview. The youview box has the conventional single coax connection for the ariel where the sky box had the two ariel leads coming from the dish.

I really want to keep the dish as my ariel as I am in a very bad reception area for normal TV ariels but cannot get a solution for the two into one coax connection. Can anyone help please?

[RB2004]

You cannot use a dish as an aerial.

Dish receives satellite signals from an orbital sat in space.

Aerial receives a signal from a local transmitter.

If your reception is poor, either try to upgrade your aerial with something like a DAT 75 with a MRD

Or keep your sat dish and use freesat

[Uncle Peter]

Originally Posted by RB2004

You cannot use a dish as an aerial.

Dish receives satellite signals from an orbital sat in space.

Aerial receives a signal from a local transmitter.

If your reception is poor, either try to upgrade your aerial with something like a DAT 75 with a MRD

Or keep your sat dish and use freesat

One of those 3 boom wideband things?

I wouldn't use a wideband antenna in a marginal signal area for the same reason that you wouldn't use say, a log periodic to work troposcatter on 432MHz. A conventional, grouped yagi (of acceptable quality, not Maplin or B&Q junk) would surely suffice for the OP.

[Matth]

Youview was a poor choice... A freesat plus box with freetime epg would be better, and would use the dish.

Ah, came with Talktalk? - no alternative to sorting out a usable TV antenna, check the predictors at:
http://www.wolfbane.com/cgi-bin/tvd.exe?
or
http://www.ukfree.tv/transmitters.php
Will show which transmitters should be in range, and direction, antenna polarity.

NB. Unless the receiving device has very poor sensitivity, or splitting the signal to multiple devices, amplifiers at the bottom of the cable do not help much, while a masthead amplifier boosts the signal before some has been lost in the cable.