2009 Itasca Cambria. Second owner. Short and sweet explanation of what I have. Single LNB off a Winegard dish running to Direct TV box. Output on DTV box is HDMI only. Front TV HDMI ready so not a problem. Rear Tv replaced with a larger TV and also installed 50ft. of HDMi cable to it. Installed a splitter that is powered by a small transformer to send a signal to the rear TV. It worked momentarily then went to sound only. I am tired of this. Original owner was using a portable dish outsidethe coach. I am really good at getting a signal using my compass and getting the dish dialed in. How can i get a signal to the rear tv. I bypassed the box that came with the coach. Satellite guy today said i need another cable from the dish to the rear TV and another direct Tv box. I have come to the conclusion that no one knows what the "H" they are talking about, prove me wrong. Thanks.

As I see it you have a couple of options. Genie and a slave for the second TV or get serious and rewire the RV in the right way. I just did a serious modification in my fiver so I can run a genie and wireless slave off on two different dishes.

donn0128 wrote:As I see it you have a couple of options. Genie and a slave for the second TV or get serious and rewire the RV in the right way. I just did a serious modification in my fiver so I can run a genie and wireless slave off on two different dishes.Rewire the Rv the right way, meaning what? Im tired of adding additional boxes, wires ,cables, plugging in things then unplugging something else. The front of my coach looks like a control panel for a DC-10 and I still don't have Tv in the bedroom. Had to unplug something this morning to grind my coffee, lost my signal then had to reboot. PITA. I get up at night and there are enough red lights on to light my path. Running an additional cable from the satellite to the front of the coach, that looks like fun. Do they run those cables through tubes or spray insulation on them so you have to remove roof panels. My friends call on me when the job requires patience so I can run a cable from anywhere if I have to .

Do you have a vidio selector box. I had to add one to our Aspect.Now can control Sat,cable and OTA feed to front and rear TV.

Since you have a single LNB Dish and that means you CANNOT get Direct HD channels, get a older Direct TV receiver(non HD) that has coax out to TV. Then just use the RV's coax cable to power each TV. Since NO HD , there is no reason to use HDMI cables. Doug

dougrainer wrote:Since you have a single LNB Dish and that means you CANNOT get Direct HD channels, get a older Direct TV receiver(non HD) that has coax out to TV. Then just use the RV's coax cable to power each TV. Since NO HD , there is no reason to use HDMI cables. DougI contacted Direct and they do not have a receiver with the coax outputs. All of theirs have the HDMI outputs and the coax inputs.

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rvten
Explorer
Oct 21, 2014
Do you have a vidio selector box. I had to add one to our Aspect.
Now can control Sat,cable and OTA feed to front and rear TV.
klutchdust
Explorer II
Oct 21, 2014
donn0128 wrote:
As I see it you have a couple of options. Genie and a slave for the second TV or get serious and rewire the RV in the right way. I just did a serious modification in my fiver so I can run a genie and wireless slave off on two different dishes.

Rewire the Rv the right way, meaning what? Im tired of adding additional boxes, wires ,cables, plugging in things then unplugging something else. The front of my coach looks like a control panel for a DC-10 and I still

don't have Tv in the bedroom. Had to unplug something this morning to grind my coffee, lost my signal then had to reboot. PITA. I get up at night and there are enough red lights on to light my path.

Running an additional cable from the satellite to the front of the coach, that looks like fun. Do they run those cables through tubes or spray insulation on them so you have to remove roof panels. My friends call on me when

the job requires patience so I can run a cable from anywhere if I have to .
donn0128
Explorer II
Oct 21, 2014
As I see it you have a couple of options. Genie and a slave for the second TV or get serious and rewire the RV in the right way. I just did a serious modification in my fiver so I can run a genie and wireless slave off on two different dishes.

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