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<blockquote data-quote="spiney" data-source="post: 142022" data-attributes="member: 192438">Existing coax cable for terrestrial tv is almost certainly UHF only type, which won't carry a satellite signal more than a few feet (unfortunately)!There's 3 things to look for:1) If the dielectric - &quot;filling&quot; between centre and outer conductors - is solid, and the outer conductor is also &quot;braid&quot; only, with no additional &quot;foil&quot; (which looks like aluminiun cooking foil, although may be copper!) outside it, then it's UHF only.2) If there's an air spaced dielectric - ie the insulation between the inner and outer conductor clearly has holes going through it, then the cable is probably satellite type, in which case there should also be a solid outer foil (as above).3) If the cable type is printed on the outer insulation, you can probably look up the specs (on various websites)!A proper test would also tell you, of course.(oops, just to be quite clear, as Rolf say above, it's the dish connection to a satellite receiver that this affects, the actual tv output from a sat receiver to tv aerial socket will &quot;happily&quot; travel along a UHF only cable!).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="spiney, post: 142022, member: 192438"] Existing coax cable for terrestrial tv is almost certainly UHF only type, which won't carry a satellite signal more than a few feet (unfortunately)! There's 3 things to look for: 1) If the dielectric - "filling" between centre and outer conductors - is solid, and the outer conductor is also "braid" only, with no additional "foil" (which looks like aluminiun cooking foil, although may be copper!) outside it, then it's UHF only. 2) If there's an air spaced dielectric - ie the insulation between the inner and outer conductor clearly has holes going through it, then the cable is probably satellite type, in which case there should also be a solid outer foil (as above). 3) If the cable type is printed on the outer insulation, you can probably look up the specs (on various websites)! A proper test would also tell you, of course. (oops, just to be quite clear, as Rolf say above, it's the dish connection to a satellite receiver that this affects, the actual tv output from a sat receiver to tv aerial socket will "happily" travel along a UHF only cable!). [/QUOTE]

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