Tailgater RG6

I think that is a tailgater question not a Dish question. I have used up to 150 feet of RG6 with a portable dish manually set up. Automatic dishes require some power to operate their mechanism. Tailgater should know what max amount of cable you can use.

Emailed King Controls. Response was to contact DISH.
Perhaps I should rephrase my question: Has anyone ever successfully used more than the 50' of RG6 provided with Tailgater?
Thanks.

Some have reported upto 100' but also have reported issues.

Read some here.

Me to the rescue!!

I have used 100 ft of low loss coax ($18 on amazon) without issue EVER. I have the Tailgater and the 211k.

I then hooked the 100 ft to another 50 ft using a cheap Radio Shack connector. 90% of the time it works perfectly. Sometimes, it won't start looking for birds, and then you reboot it and it starts. Very rarely, it won't work the second time. It has ALWAYS worked by the third time.

CAVEAT: I have a bulkhead pass-through entrance (a glorified hole) in the side of my TT, which the coax goes through without any connection and directly to the 211k.

Picture quality has never been an issue. Getting power out to the finding servo "can" be, but usually isn't (as said previously). Make sure any power cable is well away from the coax, or at the minimum crosses it to the perpendicular. A parallel power cable closer than a foot will destroy your connection.

Good luck!

Many thanks. Sent another email to King Controls and was told we might receive power with 75' of RG6 as a maximum, but it appears greenrvgreen has had success with even more. We especially appreciate the information provided about power cables in proximity to the RG6 coax. And, we run coax through a slide room opening, allowing for coax space in opening. It is a direct connect. Haven't drilled a hole in rv, yet......thanks again.

If you're going to stretch it on the cable, buy MediaBridge RG6 from Amazon. It's not that much more expensive than cheap RG6.

Bruce

I know a guy right now that has 150 feet of coax with his Tailgater.

King Controls was probably being a bit cautious as it seems using more than 50' of RG6 coax works for some, not for others. Appreciate all the replies and suggestions.

prolly depends on SCC or CCS cable type

Maybe (prolly) even QRS, PPC or WTF cable type. (What?!)