Question on Television wiring in my 5th wheel
My 5th wheel has a plug on the side wear I attach the cable to for my TV signal. It has three jacks inside the RV one in rear bunk room one in living room and one in our bedroom. We currently have jus...
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dpgllg wrote:
My questions are:
I use a satellite dish for the Dish network and can never get the wiring to work for it I have to run the cable through the window and into the dish box to get it to work.
What if anything am I doing wrong?
The cable from the outside runs to the inside jack with the power amplified button on it. You have a couple of choices to get this to work both of them will require modifications to how that jack is wired. Jayco's have an A/B plate which you can add as well. If you're interested in doing this, I can elaborate more but the modification will look something like this:
dpgllg wrote:
How can I get this to work if I put in a second TV in our bedroom? Do I need another Dish box?
If you want to view a separate channel, yes. If you want to view the same channel AND have an RF output on your satellite receiver, the modification I alluded to above can help distribute the signal to the remainder of the RV
dpgllg wrote:
Now if the campground has cable I hook up from campground post to the side of my RV and I can get a signal inside the RV.
Under this connection would the 2nd TV in our bedroom work without any issues?
Not sure I understand this question, but using the above idea, you can use cable OR satellite. To use both the satellite must have a separate cable run.
