SatElite connection for Damon Astoria 2007

The cable they used may not be of high enough quality through the RV...if they did not use RG6 type cable inside the RV itself...the signal will not carry through the cable.

1. Does the cable work fine to give you cable TV to your tv sets?...this determines that the cable is not broken somewhere..

2. If cable works fine, then I would try a known good input to it and connect that cable to your satellite box in which would then go right to your TV...If you don't get anything...then your cable is not strong enough to carry the signal from satellite.

Your second sentence identifies your problem. You're hooking your sat coax to the CABLE outlet. They are not compatible. As you learned, it will not work. I had to run a separate line into the coach with a multiplex switch to get mine to work properly. I did install an A/B switch so I can use the roof antenna most of the time and switch it to B when I need the remote one....good luck..Dennis

I run a satellite line through the cable connection in my electrical bay - works fine. I had to change a few things with the distribution box to make a clean connection to my bedroom TV. The satellite signal will not work through a splitter because the receiver box supplies electrical power to the LNB and it cannot back flow through a splitter. I also had to remove a splitter installed on the line going to the back TV that supplied a signal to our outside TV. The coaxial cable used in RV's are compatible with satellite signals.

There are several ways to do it. Winegard recommends the diagram below.

Making the connections the way Winegard recommends does not require adding any coax connectors to the wallplate.

Note that this assumes your front TV is connected to the coax connector on the front of the wall plate. If yours isn't, there should be a splitter in the line labeled "To second TV" that will send the signal to both the front and rear TVs (if you have two TVs).

What Winegard calls a "power supply" below is the wall plate with the antenna booster switch and LED showing when the amplifier is on.

If you still want to be able to use the external cable in for both cable TV and the external dish just add an A/B switch to switch the incoming coax from the sat receiver "sat input" to the sat receiver "TV input".

If your receiver doesn't have a coax output (and many new ones don't) and you still want to use the batwing antenna you will need to use an A/B switch to switch the signal between the receiver and the antenna out connection on the wall plate.

One thing not shown in the diagram is using the RCA type connections or the better quality "component" type output or the HDMI (best) output between the sat receiver and the TV.
That will yield a much better picture with no interference from any local channels. You have to select a "video in" with your TV menu instead of using channel 3 (for example).
Some newer satellite receivers don't have a coax output so you may have to use HDMI or component connections.

If you have a video distribution box that will have to be taken into account.

That setup has you watching the same program on both TVs.I have a tripod satellite setup. I run 2 lines from my LNB, one to the front TV through the coaxial cable for the roof dish (roof dish doesn't work) and one through the cable connection to the bedroom TV. I have 2 receivers and can watch different programs on each TV.

Thanks cable works fine but sat does not. I guess new cable for sat connection is the answere.

seagar1052 wrote:
Thanks cable works fine but sat does not. I guess new cable for sat connection is the answere.

If the cable works at all then it will work with satellite. The problem is more than likely a splitter somewhere that doesn't allow the receiver to communicate with the LNB. Distribution boxes that control signals throughout the MH have Sat in and Sat out connections that do not split signals but the cable in and cable out connections do split signals. If you have the cable from the electrical bay going through the distribution box (cable ports) and then to the TV the signal is being split and the satellite connection is not being completed because it cannot communicate with the LNB. If this is the case, remove the cable from the box and connect it directly to the line going to the TV. I did this and still had a problem until I found the splitter connected to the rear TV that was sending a signal to the basement TV. Removed that one as well and Bob's you're Uncle.

I need to add to the above...the problem is that if the total of the cable gets close to or over 100 feet, signal breaks down..I have this in my coach if I try to use the porta cube on the bedroom tv...It goes to a sat in which comes in the coach, I then directly pipe the sat in to the to rear rv and while it sees the cube, it doesn't work right and won't switch channels fast enough..If I use the 50 ft of cube in the window to the bedroom, works just fine..Most of the time, about 90% I am fine with the roof top and have no issues, but 41 feet from rear of coach to front of coach then 40 feet to bedroom tv plus about 25 to 50 feet of cable to cube is just too much cable for the signal to go back and forth...There is no splitter with that connection either...the cable they use in these coaches come from the dollar tree.