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82911
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Aug 10, 2013

stumped !! Fixed!!

YAHOO !!!!! I ran a coax from my garage to the "cable in" on the switcher and everything works perfect. It was a faulty " to TV" coax connector on the dish receiver. Thanks for everyones suggestions!

I have a 2002 winnabago adventurer 32k. I have a Carryout dish which I hooked up to the cable in box in the basement and then put the dish 211k receiver in the overhead cabinet where the switcher is. I attached the cable in to the dish receiver and then a coax out of the receiver to the cable in of the switch box. I then powered up the dish 211k receiver and got signal but the picture on both tvs is barely watchable because its snowy . Now both of these tvs have a clear picture when using the vhs player or dvd player so its not the TV's. I brought in a led tv and hooked it up with a coax and it was snowy also and then I used a hdmi cable and the picture is perfect so the Dish receiver is working properly. Im thinking the coax output of the Dish Receiver is bad. Anyone else have anyother ideas? One last thing I did was take my standard def Dish receiver output that I have in my garage ad hooked it up to the switcher and it too produced a snowy picture. I have checked all the cables and they all work fine.
  • No, you do not use a digital to analog converter with the satellite coax output as it's already analog.
    You may have a bad switch on the controller box. I would try moving the output from the receiver to a different input or, if the VHS has been connected to that same port, maybe the issue is with the receivers output or one of the cable connections.
  • Thanks for posting the fix. Sometimes we overlook the obvious. I have had Sat/Cable TV problems many times that were caused by failure of small connectors that were a "Bear" to find but should have been checked from the beginning. Glad you solved the problem.

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