Cable in the RV Park

forget it.

We learned the hard way, that you have to scan for your channels.

If you have the newer HD ready TV sets you will not need the conversion box... We have the Vizio Walmart special's HDTVs in our trailer.

Just plug-in - go to HDTV menu and select CABLE - scan in the ANALOG or DIGITAL channels and watch TV.

Also don't rule out picking up the high def TV from the local town using your OTA BATWING Antenna. These digital signals will be in high def mode for the Natl Broadcast stations (Free to the public). We usually pick-up 6-36 digital full high def HDTV signals just about everywhere we go... Watching the national broadcast channels in full screen high def digital TV is much better quality then watching the ANALOG TV signals coming from most of the camp sites over their analog CABLE channels. We usually do both when at regular camp sites. OTA for HDTV watching the National Broadcast local channels and then switch to cable to watch the cable stations like CNN - Weather Channel - movies etc...

We used to bring along our SAT TV stuff from the house on our trips but since the digital Natl Broadcast HDTV turned out as good as it did we don't bring the DIRECTV SAT stuff with us anymore when camping off the power grid. We watch the local digital station using the OTA Batwing antenna and if we must have to watch some CABLE movie channels we will downstream them over the internet...

Good to read above some camp sites are now showing digital TV verses the old analog TV format. Perhaps these are in High Def (HDTV) mode as well now... haven't run into one yet...

Roy Ken

Be sure your cable will reach from your rv to the campground's cable box.

I found that if your cable connects outside that first leads to the bedroom and then to splitter to the booster in the front, 99% of the time it won't work with the new digital TV's. CG cable doesn't work on my MH anymore since the change over.

Someone on the tech forum had a fix for that. He said the new digital doesn't like the splitter part of it.

The last CG I was at they told everyone to run the cable thru a window directly to the booster. THAT did work.

You usually access the TV menu from the remote control, so look at the remote and push menu then look for "source" and select "Cable" instead of "Antena" then after hooking up the cable from the campground, you might have a distribution box that has several buttons and they will be labled "Cable" and "DVD", VCR, Antenna, Satalight, Ect. Select cable and you should be ready to g.

Since you have a Class A, you may also have a master switch box somewhere inside the RV. At several RV parks where I worked, the Class A's would usually have the most trouble when switching from satellite to cable to antenna. The switch boxes I saw were almost all in the cabinetry above the dash.

I think I have that box in the motorhome already, but not sure.

Some parks are moving to digital cable in which case you will need a box. They are provided by the cg but they will ask for a deposit so they get it back.

thanks alot folks,