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fotodog
Explorer
Jul 06, 2021

Connecting Winegard Traveler to Dish Hopper

Hello All,
My apologies if this has been addressed, but I can’t find any information with a search. My old Dish receiver bit the dust, and I’m now trying to connect the new Hopper to my Winegard rooftop satellite dish. The problem I’m having is that my 2008 Tiffen uses a control box which connects both TV’s to either the rooftop analog antenna, campground cable, or satellite dish by pressing the appropriate switch, but it only has coaxial connections.

With my old Dish receiver, I plugged the incoming satellite cable into a splitter, with one leg going to the receiver and the other leg going to the control box. But the new Hopper only has one coaxial input, so I don’t have a way to connect it to the control box.

Do I need a new control box? If anyone has experience with this, I would greatly appreciate your help. Thanks! Tim
  • LouLawrence's avatar
    LouLawrence
    Explorer
    Jul 06, 2021
    If you are talking about getting the TV signal from the Hopper to more than 1 TV there is no coax option available as the output is HDMI. You could add an wireless HDMI splitter/repeater and connect that to the 2nd TV but they are not cheap. If you have the ability to run a new HDMI cable from the Hopper to the 2nd TV then you only need the splitter to get the signal there. You may find some HDMI to coax (usually poor quality picture) or CAT6 Ethernet if you don't have room to run a new HDMI cable. Keep in mind you could run the coax up through the ceiling to the roof, across the roof and back into the RV at the new location, it just takes a longer cable.
    If you do have the Winegard Trav'ler SK-1000 for DISH, you can also just run a 2nd coax to the 2nd TV from the antenna and use a Joey at that location.

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