How to Set Up an Off-Air Antenna With Direct TV
- 1). Look over the input cable ports on your TV set and the output ports on the DirecTV receiver box to see which available ports are shared.
- 2). Connect the DirecTV receiver's output to the TV using a cable connection other than RG coaxial if possible. Your best options are HDMI, RCA component and RCA composite.
- 3). Connect a splitter to the TV's coaxial input port if that port is the only option. Connect the port to the side of the splitter with one coaxial port using a short coaxial cable.
- 4). Connect the DirecTV's output to one of the two open ports on the splitter's other side using another coaxial cable.
- 5). Attach the antenna to the TV's available coaxial input port, whether you use the splitter or not, using the antenna's own attached cable.
- 6). Mount the antenna in a location that will give you the best reception; the higher, the better. Many antennas have slots where they can be hung by thumbtacks.
- 7). Tune the TV's input to the main "TV" channel for the antenna and whichever connection the DirecTV box uses to watch that. If both use the coaxial via splitter, flip the DirecTV box's channel switch to Channel 3 or 4 and tune the TV set to that channel for satellite TV.
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