Cable hookup on Rv

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I put one of these on my cable.

Jim@HiTek wrote:
Ahh, if only it were true. But it's not.

I was in a RV park just yesterday, a big one in a metropolitan area, where I had to put a deposit on a Comcast cable box with remote. Than hook it to the parks cable connection and to my 'Smart' TV.

As you drive around the country, like I do, you'll find all sorts of setups. The easiest just require you to connect to the parks cable connector at the power tower and the set the switches on your routing box, than set the TV to scan cable. Others require a separate box they get from the cable company for their area. Sometimes you have to rent that box, other times, just put a deposit down on it. Some of these boxes are proprietary digital, others are old fashioned analog and your TV finds the signal on analog channel 3 or 4.

It's a mishmash.

Yep we stayed at one in MO last summer and we will be at one next month in Door County that requires using their cable box.

Yes and no. That is the connection BUT some CG require a decoder box.

Pretty common. I ran into it at 3 RV parks just in the last couple months. Note, I'm a full timer and in the last few months I traveled from Florida to Oregon/Washington.

Jim@HiTek wrote:
Ahh, if only it were true. But it's not.

I was in a RV park just yesterday, a big one in a metropolitan area, where I had to put a deposit on a Comcast cable box with remote. Than hook it to the parks cable connection and to my 'Smart' TV.

As you drive around the country, like I do, you'll find all sorts of setups. The easiest just require you to connect to the parks cable connector at the power tower and the set the switches on your routing box, than set the TV to scan cable. Others require a separate box they get from the cable company for their area. Sometimes you have to rent that box, other times, just put a deposit down on it. Some of these boxes are proprietary digital, others are old fashioned analog and your TV finds the signal on analog channel 3 or 4.

It's a mishmash.

I don't doubt your story, but in 15 years of RVing, I have never found an RV park that required a cable box. So I don't know how common that situation is.

Two things: I agree with Jim@HiTek, that's why we have DirecTV. Our connection is the same no matter where we go. Second, the cable connection on the outside is for campground connections only. Don't confuse that with hooking up a remote satellite dish....cable companies use splitters, satellite companies use diplexers...Dennis

many campgrounds do not offer cable TV and some say they do but when you arrive they tell you something is wrong with it. We don't rely on cable TV in campgrounds.

Ahh, if only it were true. But it's not.

I was in a RV park just yesterday, a big one in a metropolitan area, where I had to put a deposit on a Comcast cable box with remote. Than hook it to the parks cable connection and to my 'Smart' TV.

As you drive around the country, like I do, you'll find all sorts of setups. The easiest just require you to connect to the parks cable connector at the power tower and the set the switches on your routing box, than set the TV to scan cable. Others require a separate box they get from the cable company for their area. Sometimes you have to rent that box, other times, just put a deposit down on it. Some of these boxes are proprietary digital, others are old fashioned analog and your TV finds the signal on analog channel 3 or 4.

It's a mishmash.

One other minor detail. You will need to program the TV. There are 2 settings in your TV, one is Antenna and one is Cable. Be sure you are set to Cable and then run a new channel scan.

Thanks everyone!!