What is considered Satellite ready
A friend just purchased a Thor ACE 29ft Class A. All the brochures and website listed the unit as Cable/Sat ready. When we try to connect Dish network to the incoming terminal keep getting error mess...
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Do you have two separate incoming coax connections, one for sat and one for cable?
You say "directly to the TV and signal is fine". Do you mean direct to the sat box that connects to the TV?
The external sat connection should go direct to the internal sat receiver connection, not thru any switches or other intermediate devices. If it only has one external coax connection, then it may mean manipulating some internal connections to get the sat to work.
I had only one external coax connection and it is set up for cable. But is comes into a dual coax connector wall plate with a short coax jumper cable connecting the two together just below the living room TV. By removing the short jumper and connecting another slightly longer coax cable from that wall plate to the sat box, my sat works fine. Had to put the jumper back in place to use park cable. So I eventually added a new external coax connection specifically for the sat input to make me "satellite ready". Now I don't have to remove the jumper.
You say "directly to the TV and signal is fine". Do you mean direct to the sat box that connects to the TV?
The external sat connection should go direct to the internal sat receiver connection, not thru any switches or other intermediate devices. If it only has one external coax connection, then it may mean manipulating some internal connections to get the sat to work.
I had only one external coax connection and it is set up for cable. But is comes into a dual coax connector wall plate with a short coax jumper cable connecting the two together just below the living room TV. By removing the short jumper and connecting another slightly longer coax cable from that wall plate to the sat box, my sat works fine. Had to put the jumper back in place to use park cable. So I eventually added a new external coax connection specifically for the sat input to make me "satellite ready". Now I don't have to remove the jumper.
