What is the difference between an antenna and satellite dish?

Question

What is the difference between an antenna and satellite dish?

Answer 1

An antenna is an ariel you plug at the back of your television, a satelite dish is the one that recieves the antennas signal for you to get the chanels.

Answer 2

A satellite dish IS an antenna, it's just an antenna that's built to receive wireless signals from satellites.  Traditional bunny ears antennas, or a UHF antenna on your roof is designed to pick up the wireless signals from your local TV network in the nearest metro area.

Answer 3

Antenna gets you about 4 channels.  Satellite gets you about 4000 channels.

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Answer 4

a satellite dish is pointed at the geosynchronous orbit of a satellite and focuses the data into the lnb at the front,an antenna just pics up transmission signals that come from repeater stations,prone to interference

Answer 5

The difference is the frequency they receive on.  The antenna receives TV on UHF and VHF frequencies from a TV station or a repeater station on a mountain top.  54 MHZ to 220 MHZ frequency ranges

The Satellite dish receives Extremely high frequency versions of the signal from a satellite, 1 gigahertz and above.  It requires a satellite receiver to decode and reduce the frequency back down to VHF so the TV set can recognize it.