How to implement a satellite system?
We've been around to enough CGs now to find that OTA (or cable) reception and channel availability can often be dismal to non-existent. Nothing's worse than not being able to watch Survivor, DWTS or ...
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liborko wrote:
The cable for satellite dish would typically not have splitter(s). Satellite cable must pass DC voltage to the dish and adding a splitter is tricky. You might need a SWITCH on the satellite dish if your dish will be receiving both HD programming from satellite 82 and regular programming from satellite 91.
To identify both ends of the same cable I use terminal resistor and ohmmeter. The terminal resistor is 75 Ohm and looks like tire valve cap. You can buy it at Home Depot or Lowe. Screw it on one end of the cable and measure resistance on the other end and you should read 75 Ohms. You can also simply make short on one end and read zero Ohms on the other end.
If you want to watch different programming on different TVs, you will definitely need a switch on the dish and a separate receiver for each TV.
Great info., thanks. Any idea how the cable might be installed? Could one exterior connection be for the bedroom TV and the other for the living area TV?? I know those terminal resistors - have some on unused outlets in the house and think I have a couple left over. We'd just watch sat. TV in the living area. We don't use the bedroom TV much. HD TV is what we normally watch at home and sounds like if we just use HD in the TT, it would be simpler anyway.
It would be relatively easy to just connect a new co-ax cable to the existing inlet at the rear of our trailer and just forget about what's already there. It's accessible behind the bank of kitchen drawers and I can route it up beside the pantry cabinet no problem and up to on top of the upper cabinets where the receiver could go. This photo (not our TT) shows the rear kitchen and how there is a space between the arched ceiling and the cabinets. Perfect spot for the receiver I think - totally out of the way. Then I'd run an HDMI cable to the TV via the ceiling space to the TV which is about 10' or so away. Have already run a couple of romex/loomex cables through the same area of the ceiling so it won't be a problem, just time consuming.
It seems funny that they would go to the trouble of installing sat co-ax cable and outlets and not give any info. on how to use it and not to provide a location for receivers.
Thanks for the info. from the other replies too.
