Dish Playmate hookup

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I have a 2021 Forest River Surveyor Luxury. I have tried to hookup a Dish Playmate to the outside cable connection but it doesn't play on the TV's inside. Is there a filter on the cable line that keeps the signal from getting to the receiver?

mike-uswest · Answer

I am not an expert on this, but my trailer has two hookups, one for the cable, and another for the satellite.  I don't know what the difference is, but it works.Mike

mrwizard · Answer

Some Sat dishes are powered by the receiver,They need a direct cable connection to the receiver, no switch boxes can be In the line

lryrob9301 · Answer

Odds are your RV has splitters in the cable coax. Satellite antennas will not work with splitters in the coax. As stated above they must have a direct coax connection between the antenna and the receiver.

trb46 · Answer

I could never get my portable dish to work when hooked to the cable connection. I had a technician put in a dedicated connection that went directly to the receiver and it worked perfectly.

rover_bill · Answer

dfddeere wrote:I have a 2021 Forest River Surveyor Luxury. I have tried to hookup a Dish Playmate to the outside cable connection but it doesn't play on the TV's inside. Is there a filter on the cable line that keeps the signal from getting to the receiver?The Dish Playmate is a smart satellite dish that has to be hooked directly to a Wally receiver via coax cable. The Wally is then hooked to the TV via an HDMI cable.  Hooking the Playmate directly to the TV get you nothing.

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