Satellite Hookup

NO. To work you will have to remove the CABLE coax from the booster and then connect THAT cable to your Sat receiver. The Booster will be labeled on the back which is the CABLE wire. Doug

Not likely.

No it will not, at least not thru the booster switch matrix. The receiver needs a direct connection to the antenna. Disconnect the cable TV input to the booster and connect it directly to the sat receiver and you'll be up on the dish. This is how I connect my system up. Rarely use CG cable.

Thanks to the prev owner, I have no idea which coax is from the rear cable connection or goes to the rear tv. I just use one of those flat cables made to go under door or window and hook my receiver to that and then to the dish. Makes hooking up and tear down easy. Have a 32 in Element Tv sitting on the dash on the wooden desk and it makes watching tv just like home no pain in the neck from looking up..LOL

PDDGM wrote:
Thanks to the prev owner, I have no idea which coax is from the rear cable connection or goes to the rear tv?

Same thing happened to me. I connected the RF out from a VCR to the outside cable connection and ran a tape. Then I just went through each cable to see which one had the VCR signal.

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 wall plate.

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.

Winegard's recommended method (Above) may well work, but,,, On many coaches that cable is low bidder RG-59,, This is a high loss cable,,, You may find that yoru Sat System does not perform well epically in "Trying" conditions.

Use of high quality RG-6 (Not lowest bidder) can give you a much stronger signal on a motor-home length cable run.