Help for satellite connection

It is accepted practice for the factory wiring from the outside connections to terminate on a Video Switch so you can alternate between local TV, Cable TV or Satellite TV,and to switch the signal to multiple TV's......do you have such a device in your entertainment cabinet ? A Winegard device perhaps ?

Regards
Gemstone

Tere shpuld be a wall plate with two coax connectors. One will be for the OTA and the other should be marked as sat/cbl. Dont be surprised if it does not work. The cabling is probably low quality RG59 with unapproved splitters to boot.

On mine there are two coax connectors on a single plate. The bottom one is feed from outside and the top one is the feed to the TV. You would put the sat receiver in between. The bottom would go to sat in and the top would go to TV out. Make sure you have the power booster for the antenna turned off. When hooked to cable TV had to make a jumper to connect the two outlets.

What model Sierra?

It's model 345RET. We can't seem to find any wall plate for the connection anywhere in the camper. It has a rear entertainment center, with a TV and a fireplace underneath. Could it be behind the fireplace possibly?

Ok, I was wrong. There is a plate in the bedroom. But nowhere else that we can find. We took the fireplace out and there's nothing behind there either.

I have a wall plate near my home entertainment setup in the living room area. The WALL PLATE also has the push button to provide 12VDC POWER to the OTA BATWING PREAMP on top of my trailer. I have seen these also mounted inside a cabinet door close to the home entertainment setup. Got to be a connection point somewhere where your TV set connects too. Hand trace the cable I guess.

I tried to use the SAT CONNECTION on the outside of the trailer when I was bringing along my DIRECTV portable DISH setup. There was no way I could use this SAT connection without modifying things which I really didnt want to do. The easiest way out for me was to run two RG cables from the portable SAT DISH two port LNB with one cable going to the living room home entertainment center location and the second RG cable going to the bed room location.

At each location in the trailer I would have a SAT RCVR from my house account and then connect the VIDEO OUTS of the SAT RCVR to each of the HDTV VIDEO TV inputs. Now I can watch CABLE/OTA TV at both locations the normal way by selecting CABLE or ANTENNA from the HDTV menu using my remote. I can also watch SAT TV by selecting VIDEO 1 from each HDTV using the remote.

This seemed to be the easiest way for me to make it all work. This is only for regular standard SAT TV reception. Have no idea what you are suppose to do to get HIGH DEF working from SAT TV.

My method allowed both the Living Room and Bedroom HDTV sets to watch whatever channels they want to watch all using the remote - never leave my big chair or the bed...

Now that digital NATL BROADCAST TV has come around I stopped bringing out my DIRECTV SAT EQUIP items and watch full blown full screen high def TV signals from the local towns just about anywhere we go. Even when we are at the Camp Grounds we watch the local town HDTV signals. Then switch back to CABLE to watch the cable channels if we want to. Most campgrounds only provide analog signals to the CABLE connections. Watch full blown High DEF digital TV form the local towns is much better quality...

When camping off the power grid we usually pick up 6-36 local towns using the OTA BATWING antenna and pick up all those full blown HDTV signals for free to the public. If we want to watch some cables channels then we downstream them using the internet. Don't need the SAT TV anymore...

My CABLE SAT HDTV story
Roy Ken

I would look inside all of the cabinet doors around the fireplace for the TV WALL PANELS.



Should have a similar arrangement as you found in the bed room


photos from google images - not mine

Roy Ken

ltwest wrote:
It's model 345RET. We can't seem to find any wall plate for the connection anywhere in the camper. It has a rear entertainment center, with a TV and a fireplace underneath. Could it be behind the fireplace possibly?

I ain't the sharpest knife in the drawer, but.............

Don't you have to believe that that TV is connected to a wall plate?

And if it is, how do you get it to switch between cable, sat, and OTA?