Satellite Hook Up

Pull the Winegard powered plate. Drill a hole in the lower half and install a barrel connector. Connect the rg6 from outside connection to a splitter, then a jumper from the splitter to the new connector and another jumper from the splitter to where the rg6 from outside connection was previously connected on the Winegard plate, which is typically the cable in, middle connection. The splitter must be "power pass" and you need to be sure the RV manufacturer did not bury another non power pass splitter in the line from outside connection to wall plate.

I don't know how your Keystone Cougar is wired but since my Keystone Passport is made by the same company it may be wired the same as mine.

If you have a SINGLE cable satellite dish (like a Playmaker) and your TT is equipped with a coax jumper box (a single wall plate with two female coax connectors and a very short coax cable connecting the two), disconnect that jumper cable and determine which connector leads to the exterior connector. Connect the Wally coax cable to that connector, the Wally HDMI cable to the tv, and your satellite dish to your outside connector. If you want to reconnect to the park cable, you will have to disconnect the Wally and reinstall the jumper coax before connecting the park cable to your external connector.

Do you have a hookup in that compartment specifically marked SATELLITE or is it park cable?

TO use park cable you must re-wire the "Booster" which by the way is NOT the booster in most cases It is a power inserter, source selector and splitter, All 3 of which will block the Sat Antenna from working.

IF you have a connection specifically marked SATELLITE, well you are going to have to find teh "other end" of that wire.

IF not.. I suggest routing a brand new RG-6 cable.. if the receiver is in an overhead comnpartment up front then route it down teh "A" pillar (First pillar the inside cover comes off) under the dash and through the firewall on a gasser. or to the outside via any opening (Steering column gasket???) then to a handy dandy connection point and put a Ground Block there

Mine is on the Brake Bell crank Bracket near the hydroBooster

Some owners of Keystone products have reported the engineering geniuses have added a splitter behind the wall of the convenience center. Dish and DTV don't like a cheap splitter in their way. Remove the wall on he side of the center and check for one.

BB_TX wrote:
How many coax inputs do you have? Some have up to 3 different ones; cable, sat 1 (living room), and sat 2 (bedroom). And some have reported those inputs mislabeled. When finding the correct one, they worked as they should. And some (many?) have reported bad internal coax connections. Trial and error troubleshooting.

Had to laugh after reading your post. I have the usual ant/amplifier connection behind my TV that also has the Sat. connection. Then there's another plate that has two more ant. connections.
I wondered what the second set of connections was for so I removed the connection panel from the wall to see what it was connected to.
There was absolutely nothing connected to the back of it! :S

Have one in my bedroom too so I'm really covered :B

How many coax inputs do you have? Some have up to 3 different ones; cable, sat 1 (living room), and sat 2 (bedroom). And some have reported those inputs mislabeled. When finding the correct one, they worked as they should. And some (many?) have reported bad internal coax connections. Trial and error troubleshooting.

I use tailgater and Dish network also. I use my external connection on side of Rv for cable AND sattelite by using a push-button style splitter. So one line in to the splitter, one line out to each the sattelite box and the Amp/distribution box, which means no disconnect/reconnects on inside function, just a push of button to use whatever coax signal I decide to use at a site. Pretty sure it was an Amazon purchase, but probably also available on E-bay.(Search push button signal splitter) If you need additional info, I can look up precise info and post it.

I have Tailgater, but it may be the same with Wally. I had to bypass the antenna booster to make Tailgater work. In other words, I looked at the antenna booster, unplugged the satellite-in line, and ran that line directly to my Dish receiver (using a short extension cable). After that, I could plug the Tailgater into the outside satellite-in.

Common question. The connection your trying to use is likely a park cable connection and not really a sat in. The easiest is to run a dedicated coax from point A to point B behind your TV close to where your going to place the sat box. Satellite does not play nice with the cheap coax and splitters RV builders install.