Stupid satellite tv question

No matter the quality of the cables, connectors and splitters, the wall plates you see labeled TV/Cable are not for use with satellite. You have one coax coming into your coach and going directly to the wall plate labeled satellite. This is the only place in the RV where a satellite receiver can be located (without major modification). You will only be able to use a receiver at this location. From this receiver you can feed the satellite signal to other TV's in the coach but you will not be able to place other receivers elsewhere.

There is a great satellite guy in Spring TX. Sats2Go. They helped us set up our satellite in the bedroom. www.sats2go.com He is fast, knows what he's doing and his prices are reasonable. His name is Dave.

What Donn says is exactly right. For some unknown reason the cable connectors and splitters used in the RV's are of the cheapest quality they can find and the connectors look like a butcher hacked them on. I had the same problem as you and have told this several times here. I replaced all the connectors with quality cable connectors I obtained from the cable guy. I also replaced all the splitters with quality splitters again from the "cable guy". After doing that my satellite is perfect on all four tv's in my RV.

Also if you have a tv amp usually near the main tv maybe in the wall. It will look like a cigarette lighter plug. It will have a LED light with it and a small black button. Make sure the light is off for the satellite to work in the rest of the RV.

If you change out all the crappy crimp connectors with good compression fittings, change out the chinese crappy splitters and you will be good to go.

Oh, the hardest part is finding a helpful cable guy unless you but a compression tool and compression fittings.

A Sat dish needs a switch to have more than one connection to it. The switch is like an older cable/antennae splitter, but different. And, if I remember right, DTV and Dish use different types, so I dought I would ever see an RV manufacturer install one.

You might try using one of the blank wall plates with only one receiver hooked up in the 5er.

None of those will work with satellite. Besides a bunch of splitters that satellite signals dont like the cheap cable they use combine to make them OK for cable TV but not for satellite signals.