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Fleetwood_Coupl's avatar
May 03, 2015

help with external dish and R6 cable routing

Good Morning all,
I am in a location where I am forced to use an external dish to get a signal. I want to connect to the park cable connection but the black box of many buttons doesn't have a place for Sat in. I don't want to run the wire strait from the dish to the Sat receiver....how do folks get around the darn box and still have options for the rear tv.
  • Yes I have a Sat but the roof top dish can't get a signal because of trees in the way. So I acquired a dish and have it mounted to a pole nearby. I thought I should be able to connect it to the park cable connection so I don't have to run it throug a window for the next 6 months. Pushing the cable button will not work because it does not go through the Sat receiver.
  • BTW From the receiver I ran coax to the nearest outside locker connected to barrel connectors for the dish coax. There is no reason to have the connection at the back DS corner for the dish.

    It just depends upon the location of your receiver.
  • You would use the cable button on the black box. However it may not work for satellite due to non satellite splitters and the rig coax type could be a issue.

    If you can find any splitters and remove them it might work. Or just run a coax directly to the receiver from the dish.
  • You have me really confused? You have satellite, yet you want to connect your satellite box to the park cable service? Is that right???? Cant be done! Cable is totally different from satellite service. To connect to the park cable, you might need a cable box from the park office, or possibly you can simply connect to the cable in on your RV and connect a short coax from cable port behind your TV to the coax in port on your TV.