[vdr] Re: OT: Flat Antenna useable?

["Oleg Assovski" <assen@bitcom.msk.ru>]

Andreas Roedl writes: 

> Hello! 
> 
> Am Mittwoch, 29. Mai 2002 16:12 schrieb Sabine Miehlbradt:
>> Once more for the really stupid - or rather the software specialist who
>> wouldn't know a BNC connector
>> if she sat on it - 
>>
>> Can I use the vintage TV antenna mounted on the roof that we use to watch
>> TV to collect the digital
>> signal? I cannot physically access the antenna because the Hausmeister
>> would kill me.
> 
> Yes, but this would be DVB-T(errestrial) not DVB-S(at). I don't know if there 
> is DVB-T available in Paderborn. You could try to find some more informations 
> via Google. 
> 

Are you really sure ? AFAIK DVB-T uses PAGs (phased antenna grid = "flat 
antenna"), but I am not sure. Even more - DVB-T uses different frequency 
range, so I think you cannot use the same antenna for plain old analog and 
DVB television. 

         Oleg Assovski
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