TV Upgrade Cable Routing
Hey Folks I'm a RV newbie, just purchased a used 2005 37' National Tropical LX. Since they're on longer in business I can't go to them for info, so here I am. I've replaced the front and rear TV's wi...
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JimM68 wrote:
this one is getting all over... but oh well, good info for sure.
We have a hopper at home and love it. YES, it does transmit HD signals thru the houses coax to all the joeys.
If anyone has gotten a hopper to work in an RV, I would love to hear the details.
Our setup in the S&B includes a 2 lnb eastern arc dish, 2 cables into a "solo node" or something like that? and then a single coax to the main hopper receiver. The dish guys have told me the hopper won't run without a minimum of 2 eastern arc satellites, or 3 western arc birds.
Our bus's dome of course will only give it one.
Also, while it did take some "discussion", I did succeed in migrating from Comcast cable at home ($180 per month) and dish pay as you go in the rv ($64.99/month) to dish with a hopper and 3 joeys in the S&B and a vip211k in the bus all on a single account for $74.99 total. Quite a deal methinks.
The Hopper will work in the RV exactly as it works in your home. You need a Dish 1000.4 (Eastern Arc) or a Dish 1000.2 (Western Arc) antenna plus the Solo Node and the connection will be just the same as at home. Winegard makes the Trav'ler which is an automatic roof mounted antenna using the 1000.2 dish/LNB setup or you would have to use the same type antenna mounted to a tripod and manually setup and point at each new location. Easy enough to do, you just need to grab the right hardware.
