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 just one TV in the living room.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?How can I get this to work if I put in a second TV in our bedroom? Do I need another Dish box?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?Thanks for your helpDave

The trailer has RG6 coax Dish use RG8 coax to get the signal from the dish to the satellite box. That's why you have to run a separate feed through the window. I made mine permanent by finding a means to run the RG8 cable into the RV from the compartment my electrical cord comes out of. I was bale to feed the cable over to where the main TV and sat box sit. Now I just wind up the cable and store it inside the compartment for travel.Some Dish Sat boxes are setup to feed two tvs. If you don't have one of those you can split the signal coming out of the box (TV out) and run a separate coax up to the other tvs or feed the TV out to your " plug on the side wear I attach the cable to for my TV signal" this will put the sat box signal onto all three TV connections...same channel will show on all 3 TVs.If you want to see different channels on each tv you will need a dish antenna that provides multiple feeds and a sat box for each tv or "Hopper" box.

dpgllg wrote:1.What if anything am I doing wrong?2.How can I get this to work if I put in a second TV in our bedroom? Do I need another Dish box?3.(cable)Under this connection would the 2nd TV in our bedroom work without any issues?1. Sat tv doesn't work with any splitters in the coax between the dish and receiver. 2. If you want to watch a different channel on TV 2, it'll need a separate box and coax feed3. Yes.

Your TV input to the trailer is routed through an amplifier. That amplifier will not pass a satellite signal so it must be bypassed. There is a diagram floating around "out there" which you can use to modify your inside TV outlet to work with satellite. Sorry I don't know the link for it. Someone else (Bill.satellite) may come to the rescue.Newer trailers generally have a separate "Sat In" jack, I know that doesn't help you.

the bear II wrote:The trailer has RG6 coax Dish use RG8 coax to get the signal from the dish to the satellite box. That's why you have to run a separate feed through the window. I made mine permanent by finding a means to run the RG8 cable into the RV from the compartment my electrical cord comes out of. I was bale to feed the cable over to where the main TV and sat box sit. Now I just wind up the cable and store it inside the compartment for travel.Some Dish Sat boxes are setup to feed two tvs. If you don't have one of those you can split the signal coming out of the box (TV out) and run a separate coax up to the other tvs or feed the TV out to your " plug on the side wear I attach the cable to for my TV signal" this will put the sat box signal onto all three TV connections...same channel will show on all 3 TVs.If you want to see different channels on each tv you will need a dish antenna that provides multiple feeds and a sat box for each tv or "Hopper" box.Why would you use RG8 instead of RG6 from the dish to the receiver? I use RG6 with no problems.Bruce

My external cable didn't work either and here's what I found.. When they stripped the cable back to put a connector on it, they simply stripped it all the way down to the center conducter and chopped right through the shield. So said shield was not connected at all. Nice huh?

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kellertx5er
Explorer
Sep 09, 2014
Your TV input to the trailer is routed through an amplifier. That amplifier will not pass a satellite signal so it must be bypassed. There is a diagram floating around "out there" which you can use to modify your inside TV outlet to work with satellite. Sorry I don't know the link for it. Someone else (Bill.satellite) may come to the rescue.

Newer trailers generally have a separate "Sat In" jack, I know that doesn't help you.
2oldman
Explorer II
Sep 09, 2014
dpgllg wrote:
1.What if anything am I doing wrong?

2.How can I get this to work if I put in a second TV in our bedroom? Do I need another Dish box?

3.(cable)Under this connection would the 2nd TV in our bedroom work without any issues?
1. Sat tv doesn't work with any splitters in the coax between the dish and receiver.

2. If you want to watch a different channel on TV 2, it'll need a separate box and coax feed

3. Yes.
the_bear_II
Explorer
Sep 09, 2014
The trailer has RG6 coax Dish use RG8 coax to get the signal from the dish to the satellite box. That's why you have to run a separate feed through the window. I made mine permanent by finding a means to run the RG8 cable into the RV from the compartment my electrical cord comes out of. I was bale to feed the cable over to where the main TV and sat box sit. Now I just wind up the cable and store it inside the compartment for travel.

Some Dish Sat boxes are setup to feed two tvs. If you don't have one of those you can split the signal coming out of the box (TV out) and run a separate coax up to the other tvs or feed the TV out to your " plug on the side wear I attach the cable to for my TV signal" this will put the sat box signal onto all three TV connections...same channel will show on all 3 TVs.

If you want to see different channels on each tv you will need a dish antenna that provides multiple feeds and a sat box for each tv or "Hopper" box.

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