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iagary
Explorer
Mar 13, 2017

Dish signal to multiple TVs

I use a tailgater and dish 211 receiver in my TT. Right now I have a TV inside and an outside TV. I have been running an HDMI cord through a window to get the dish signal to the outside TV. I am looking at a TT that would have 3 TV's. One in the living area (where the dish receiver would be located), one in the bedroom and an outside TV. How are others on this forum distributing satellite signal to multiple TV's? I do not like to tie my antenna to my dish receiver because if they are separate we can watch two things at the same time (one on antenna and another on dish). Any secrets to extending dish to multiple TV's without drilling holes and HDMI splitters?
  • iagary's avatar
    iagary
    Explorer
    Mar 13, 2017
    Does anyone use a wireless transmitter/ receiver(s) setup? I see them available for HDMI (very expensive) or composite a/v (not too expensive). I would be looking for one with "pass through" on the transmitter and two receivers for the two "remote" TV's. Any thoughts on those?
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    iagary
    Explorer
    Mar 13, 2017
    Johno02, I do have a coax output, but I want to use the coax to the other TV locations for the antenna signal. My camper is wired with only coax. Seems this day and age camper manufacturers would modernize their A/V wiring. Oh well. HDMI through the window isn't so bad. I use the R/W/Y output for the inside TV when I do that.
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    K_Charles
    Explorer
    Mar 13, 2017
    Our antenna and the coaxial out from the VIP211 go to the box with all the buttons. The HDMI goes to the Tv In the living room and that is high definition, the bedroom and outside TV's are not.
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    Johno02
    Explorer
    Mar 13, 2017
    If your dish receiver has a coax output, just use that instead of an HDMI cable. An HD signal travels just as well via a COAX as it does on a HDMI cable. HDMI cables di have a lot of other options, but just for a TV signal, coax works fine. Do you have any areas prewired for TV?? If so, what kind of cables are there?? Ours was wired with both coax and AVI cables (before HDMI), so I ran dish on the AVI, antenna and cable on the coax. Used input on TV to select which I wanted.
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    Second_Chance
    Explorer II
    Mar 13, 2017
    You will need a separate receiver for each TV - a splitter won't work. In addition, with a portable antenna like the Tailgater, if more than one TV is being watched, each TV will have to be viewing channels that are on the same satellite. The portable automatic antennas only have on LNB so can only receive one satellite at a time. You would have to use a three-LNB antenna like the TR-6100 to receive all three satellites simultaneously (and this type of antenna is not automatic).

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