Tailgater Problem

My brother's Cardinal has separate connections on the ext of the trailer for cable & sat. I just purchased a tailgator and will be installing a separate ext connection for the sat near the tv. Hope this will eliminate any problems. keep us posted.

Thanks to all for your posts. My TT is in the shop now but when I get it back home I will try some of the recommendations.

64thunderbolt wrote:
bypass that amplifier

The amplifier is totally bypassed.

BB_TX wrote:
My Tailgater worked fine thru a short OEM internal coax cable from the outside connection to the inside connection. But it involved removing a jumper to connect the sat receiver and putting the jumper back to use park cable.
Solution was to add a new external connection just for sat. I bought an external coax connector with rubber cap, drilled a hole fhru the outside wall near the TV, installed an inside coax conn wall plate at the TV, and connected the two via a short coax cable. Works fine with the Tailgater.

Did something similar. The computer desk is right next to our enterainment center. There was an external connection for a hard wired telephone. Replaced that with a coax fitting so I can now go from the Tailgater to the Dish box with just one coupler. Works fine.

bypass that amplifier

martipr wrote:

GoPackGo wrote:
This is a common situation with all the 'golfball' sat antennas that get their power thru the cable from your inside receiver box. I have a Winegard Pathway X2 and it's the same situation. Nothing is really 'wrong'. You just need one cable going directly from the sat antenna to the receiver box. You can try reworking your current interior cables to try and get rid of any splitters, but many just run a new cable.

Tim

My real question was how do you run one cable from the sat antenna to the receiver without going through an open door or window?

If you have a good connector that goes through the trailer and cable that goes straight to the receiver it will work without any problems. The only time in the last 3 years I went through the Window was to diagnose my bad connector were it entered the trailer.

Denny

GoPackGo wrote:
This is a common situation with all the 'golfball' sat antennas that get their power thru the cable from your inside receiver box. I have a Winegard Pathway X2 and it's the same situation. Nothing is really 'wrong'. You just need one cable going directly from the sat antenna to the receiver box. You can try reworking your current interior cables to try and get rid of any splitters, but many just run a new cable.

Tim

My real question was how do you run one cable from the sat antenna to the receiver without going through an open door or window?

fpresto wrote:
I am not familiar with Dish but am very familiar with DirecTV. You must have a two way connection between the receiver and the antenna. The return signal to the antenna changes the channels which is why you see an error. Several things can block that return such as a non two way splitter or as is very common running through the cable TV amp. You must make sure that you bypass the amp with your coax.
I always get a kick out of the RG-6 comments which you can ignore. They are posted by people who have never looked up the line losses between different cables and are meaningless in the distance run in an RV. There is NO standard for RG-6 or any RG. I could take any old cheap coax, stamp RG-6 all over it and legally sell it. RG was an old term used in the Military and meant Radio Grade. That went out many years ago and was replaced by Mil-Spec. I work with this every day. Believe me a good quality RG-58 will easily outperform a poor quality RG-6 every time. People who say that they got a signal in an RV with RG-6 but not with RG-58 just means they put the connectors on right when they installed the RG-6 and probably had a bad one on the RG-58.

..and poor quality RG58 will fail every time. Whats your point?

I am not familiar with Dish but am very familiar with DirecTV. You must have a two way connection between the receiver and the antenna. The return signal to the antenna changes the channels which is why you see an error. Several things can block that return such as a non two way splitter or as is very common running through the cable TV amp. You must make sure that you bypass the amp with your coax.
I always get a kick out of the RG-6 comments which you can ignore. They are posted by people who have never looked up the line losses between different cables and are meaningless in the distance run in an RV. There is NO standard for RG-6 or any RG. I could take any old cheap coax, stamp RG-6 all over it and legally sell it. RG was an old term used in the Military and meant Radio Grade. That went out many years ago and was replaced by Mil-Spec. I work with this every day. Believe me a good quality RG-58 will easily outperform a poor quality RG-6 every time. People who say that they got a signal in an RV with RG-6 but not with RG-58 just means they put the connectors on right when they installed the RG-6 and probably had a bad one on the RG-58.

Check to see if the existing coax is RG6 and not RG59. OTA signal works OK with RG59 but sometime satellite will not.

59 is a couple of cents cheaper than 6 so you know what most manufacturers install!