Direct TV wil not install a dish
I have a 1990 rig with a cable TV port on the exterior of my rig. I called direct TV to come install. I was told that since the line is a shared line with the winegard antenna that has a amplifier o...
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Bill.Satellite wrote:
While an RG6 cable is good, it's not required by any current satellite TV receiver. If you have a very long run the loss between antenna and receiver can be reduced by the better quality cabling but since we are generally not talking about really long runs the RG-59 inside a coach will do just fine.
I did find out that the 250 feet of good RG-6 I used to test my tripod system in Florida didn't work in the Michigan UP! Shortened it to 150 feet and all was well. Apparently the weaker signal that far north wouldn't overcome the loss of that much coax!
