DAS26miles wrote:
Gonzo, I also have one in my electrical storage area. But only one and it's for cable only. Tried hooking the satellite dish to it and no reception. My TV has a mode for air or cable. You would think that connector in the electrical box would work with satellite if it worked for cable. I haven't tried hooking up the dish in a few years or with my new receiver. After the dish is attached to the electrical box connector, I removed the coax jumper at the TV coming from the TV cabinet back wall. I then attached it to the receiver's input and added a jumper for the output to the TV. The TV was set to cable. No reception.
But I will try setting it up again this weekend and see if it works.
There are several ways to do it. Winegard recommends the diagram below.
Making the connections the way Winegard recommends does not require adding any coax connectors to the wallplate.
Note that this assumes your front TV is connected to the coax connector on the front of the wall plate. If yours isn't, there should be a splitter in the line labeled "To second TV" that will send the signal to both the front and rear TVs (if you have two TVs).
What Winegard calls a "power supply" below is the wall plate with the antenna booster switch and LED showing when the amplifier is on.
If you still want to be able to use the external cable in for both cable TV and the external dish just add an A/B switch to switch the incoming coax from the sat receiver "sat input" to the sat receiver "TV input".
If your receiver doesn't have a coax output (and many new ones don't) and you still want to use the batwing antenna you will need to use an A/B switch to switch the signal between the receiver and the antenna out connection on the wall plate.
One thing not shown in the diagram is using the RCA type connections or the better quality "component" type output or the HDMI (best) output between the sat receiver and the TV.
That will yield a much better picture with no interference from any local channels. You have to select a "video in" with your TV menu instead of using channel 3 (for example).
Some newer satellite receivers don't have a coax output so you may have to use HDMI or component connections.
If you have a video distribution box that will have to be taken into account.
