Satellite Television

The park cable inlet in the outside bay should be used for cable only.. It is usually RG-59 and "Lowest bidder" at that. That said, Many people re-route the other end of the cable for SAT-LNB line,, I do not recommend this however..

What I would do is,, Let me change that WHAT I DID, is run good quality RG-6.. This runs two ways,, Since I have a roof top dome it runs to the roof.

A 2nd run goes to a Ground Block connector which is mounted on my Brake Bell crank Bracket down Below under the hood (I was able to get there without using a drill you see).

I would run a RG6 line from the place where you plan on parking the Sat receiver to either a Ground Block in the Basement, or where I put mine, or to a bulkhead (Through wall) to the outside, Label it SAT-IN.

WHY: Well average RG-59 has 4 times the loss per foot of average RG-6 (Source Belden Cables). the Lowest bidder stuff may be even worse.

That said top quality RG-59 is nearly as good as lowest bidder RG-6.

But my rig has about 50 feet of Low bidder 59 in it, that's 200 feet equivlent RG-6 loss at best, likely more, and 300 feet is your line limit without a booster.

The satellite signal cannot be split with a regular splitter. For splitting it requires a multi switch which is much different. Most vucubes and tailgaters only have one coax and therefore one TV.

I don't have a Tailgater, so I'm guessing here. If it has two outputs (coax connections), you can run one to the living room as you have and another through a bedroom window to another receiver in the bedroom. That's what I've done with my Tour when using an external antenna. You are correct in your assessment that the external connection only feeds the living room receiver. Feeding the bedroom TV takes little work.

There should be a label sticker on the roof of your motorhome showing where to cut the hole for a roof antenna. It should be on the center of the roof near the front.

There may be a way to access the cable by removing the back panel inside the cabinet where the TV connections are located. I was going to do that but never got around to doing it since I used the A/V transmitter that I already had.

That is what I was thinking, to try and connect the satellite input thru the roof top satellite connection, but I do not know where that connection is, anyone have an idea where that is at? I have been on the roof, and have not seen it, thank you

Bill,

For some reason, Winnebago wires the motorhomes in such a way that only the roof mounted satellite antenna will work with both front and rear TVs. The portable satellite connection found next to the cable connection is not wired to the bedroom TV, it only works for the front TV.

I'm assuming this done for no other reason than to save a couple of bucks in the manufacturing process.

hurricane0226 wrote:
I have an Itasca Sunstar 35B. I was given a tailgater satellite system and receiver. I know on the outside wet bay there is a connection for either cable or portable satellite system. On the overhead storage console above the drivers chair is where the receiver connects to the incoming satellite signal. My question is this: in the bedroom, there is a wall plate for the television, which only has a connection for the roof top satellite, But I would like to be able to connect the portable satellite signal there so we can watch tv in the bedroom at night, without having to run a cable from the receiver in drivers side in the inside of the coach where someone will trip over it, anyone with this coach have any Ideas? Thank you

Unless you actually do have 2 separate connection ports outside (one labeled cable and a different one labeled satellite) then the one connection is not interchangeable and is usable for cable only. This connection "may" be able to be modified inside the coach allowing a choice between one or the other but the coach wiring may preclude that.
Since you mention a roof top option, there should also be a way to send the satellite signal from your satellite receiver to the other TV's. You should either have a video switch to select the various TV's or you should have 2 coax cables coming from the roof to each TV. If the second option is how your coach is wired it was designed for you to put a separate receiver at each TV.

I had the same situation in my Winnebago and I used something very similar to what is in the link below. I bought my unit many years ago to send TV signals to a TV in a guest room in my house. Newer units may be better than my older system.

http://www.smarthome.com/76540/RF-Link-AVS-5811-5-8GHz-Wireless-A-V-Sender-with-IR-Extender/p.aspx