Itasca Sunova TV antenna Coax problem
I have a 2004 Itasca Sunova. Recently we lost reception of TV on the roof top antenna. I have completely diagnosed the problem (I have aback ground in electronics) and isolated it to the coax cable b...
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We had the same issue on our 2002 Sunova. I spoke with the Itasca folks and all of those cables were bundled and sprayed with expandable foam during installation at the factory. So it's not possible to "pull" new cable -- bad design if you ask me. I pulled as much up top and made a new connection…seemed to fix mine for now.
If you have a Fluke, you could isolate the exactly where the cable is bad…
So…the only way to do a fix is to run a new cable along a new path…best path is down from the antenna to the inside and back to a cabinet (if you can angle it properly from the top, would make it a lot cleaner installation). Then run the cable behind the various cabinets up to the front connection.
We had the same issue on our 2002 Sunova. I spoke with the Itasca folks and all of those cables were bundled and sprayed with expandable foam during installation at the factory. So it's not possible to "pull" new cable -- bad design if you ask me. I pulled as much up top and made a new connection…seemed to fix mine for now.
If you have a Fluke, you could isolate the exactly where the cable is bad…
So…the only way to do a fix is to run a new cable along a new path…best path is down from the antenna to the inside and back to a cabinet (if you can angle it properly from the top, would make it a lot cleaner installation). Then run the cable behind the various cabinets up to the front connection.
