RV Cable Issues
I purchased my 2014 class c rv used. Ever since purchasing, I never get cable in any campground I hook up to. I purchased a new Wineguard antenna and thought having a new panel in the RV (Where you sw...
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ztoddb wrote:
As an update to my original post,
When we use over the air antenna, all tvs work. So its not the cable inside the coach from the wall plate to the TV's.
We do get Cable TV in SOME campgrounds just by hooking up the cable to the outside of the rig, turning off the antenna button on the wall plate, and doing an AUTO search under CABLE on each tv. (using no cable box) So it appears the cable running from the exterior of the rig to the wall plate is fine.
But in MOST campgrounds, we hook up to the cable and get nothing. Disney Included. I would say that 2 of 10 campgrounds we get a cable signal. And we always get OTA tv on all 4 TV's. So its not coax cable problem in the RV. I just notice that everyone else gets Cable TV with no problems but I only get it occasionally according to what campground I am in. Disney advises that no cable box is needed.
I will check the TV's to see if they are QAM type TV's. I replaced one of the TV's last year with a cheap TV purchased from Walmart (less than $100). I didn't fix the problem but I frankly didn't check to see if it had a QAM tuner.
If you are getting cable from some campgrounds then you know there is nothing wrong with your cabling or the Cable/TV power supply switch. What you need to be doing is talking to the campground owner to find out why THEIR service is not working properly. They may need to check the pole for service. I have run into many campgrounds where service is fairly intermittent throughout the sites. If they have any special requirements they will be able to tell you and if some unique settings needs to be used or a cable box needs to be used (almost never) they can tell you as well.
