How to set up portable satellite dish...
Ok so here is the story. Have a TT, 2014 Keystone passport. It has the crank up regular style winegard antenna with the small wall panel that has the booster, and the cable comes from this panel int...
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So this is what I found out. First I ended up modding my setup so that i could disconnect the line running to the back of the trailer from the rest of the booster system. I can also connect it back up if necessary. Second, my cable connection on the back runs straight to the booster, no splitter that I know of, at least that gave me any issues anyways.
Third, I had to make my own rg6 cables for the length I needed for the mods. I just bought a pre made rca rg6 cable and some ends and a crimper, and just cut off and made whatever I needed.
System works great! No problem in degradation of signal or anything so long as I can find a good line of site to the sky. My only complaint is the scan it has to run through everytime I connect it up. This doesn't have anything to do with the cabling setup or mods I made, just must be how dish works. But once it goes through that (which takes longer than one would expect) everything works fine.
I did have one worry after I reconnected the regular antenna and booster but forgot to disconnect the X2 antenna outside that the booster might feed back into it and mess up the motors or something. It did not, but I will be much more careful in the future, too pricey a system to mess it up over a simple thing.
Third, I had to make my own rg6 cables for the length I needed for the mods. I just bought a pre made rca rg6 cable and some ends and a crimper, and just cut off and made whatever I needed.
System works great! No problem in degradation of signal or anything so long as I can find a good line of site to the sky. My only complaint is the scan it has to run through everytime I connect it up. This doesn't have anything to do with the cabling setup or mods I made, just must be how dish works. But once it goes through that (which takes longer than one would expect) everything works fine.
I did have one worry after I reconnected the regular antenna and booster but forgot to disconnect the X2 antenna outside that the booster might feed back into it and mess up the motors or something. It did not, but I will be much more careful in the future, too pricey a system to mess it up over a simple thing.
