By-Passing TV Power Booster For Satellite

The easy way to do this is to remove the wall plate. On the back side you will see the connections labeled Cable and Antenna. Remove the coax from the Cable connection and connect it to an A/B switch (the single port). Now connect 2 coax cables to the A/B output ports and connect one right back to that Cable connection and the other will go to your satellite TV receiver. A for satellite and B or Bable (ummmm Cable). Now you ensure the power is off to the wall plate (power on gives you the OTA signal) and push the appropriate button depending upon whether you are connected to cable or satellite.

If I was investing money in satellite service
I would run new good quality coax in the RV for the sat receiver signal
Not mess with a bypass using the cheap coax the Mfg put in

Its not a "bypass" at all Just take the wire off the power supply and attach it to the Satellite receiver. Look at the picture, that's the way it works!

MrWizard wrote:
I don't have satellite dish,
So I'm confused about this "wire around"
Doesn't the sat dish feed directly to the Sat box receiver
And the box connect to the tv via HDMI cable

For trailers that don't come prewired for a satellite and you don't want to rewire your rig you can use the park cable outside jack for your portable satellite but you have to bypass the tv power booster as the satellite signal will not pass through the tv antenna power booster....

At least that is the way I understood it...

I don't have satellite dish,
So I'm confused about this "wire around"
Doesn't the sat dish feed directly to the Sat box receiver
And the box connect to the tv via HDMI cable

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.

Why would you want to eliminate the booster?

Bill