Satellite Hook Up

CA Traveler wrote:
It's also possible that none of the TV coax connections will work for the dish due to TV splitters, lower quality cable, etc.

Do you have a portable dish or rooftop dish? Regardless the best approach may be to run new coax. Determine how the wires need to run for your model. For my last setup it was direct dish to receiver, while the current setup is dish to dish controller to brick to receiver.

Generally it's DIY or hire a tech that understands both satellite and your rig.

Posting dish, receiver and TV model numbers should get you more input.

Thank you all....it will be a portable dish. Very good advise.

I wouldn't be too hard on the tech. Every RV manufacture is mostly made up of people who never RVd a day in their entire life. When they build the RVs those people strike off on their own with basically not much of any standard from RV to RV. They don't label much of anything so when they change from year to year it is any bodys guess where those cables go or what they were thinking at the time. Unless the wiring diagram is in your manual you just need to trace wires. That is time consuming. Most RV shops will do that for $80 to $100 an hour. A tech installing satellite dishes isn't getting paid to trouble shoot RVs and trace wires. JMHO

It's also possible that none of the TV coax connections will work for the dish due to TV splitters, lower quality cable, etc.

Do you have a portable dish or rooftop dish? Regardless the best approach may be to run new coax. Determine how the wires need to run for your model. For my last setup it was direct dish to receiver, while the current setup is dish to dish controller to brick to receiver.

Generally it's DIY or hire a tech that understands both satellite and your rig.

Posting dish, receiver and TV model numbers should get you more input.

Since Directv techs are probably not RV people unless you find a good one it is going to be up to you to figure out. No it is not thst hard, but.....