TV / Cable System Upgrades

nohurrynoworry wrote:
Hey fellow travelers.. Lots of help on this site, so maybe some ideas on this. Watching tv in my 1994 Winnabago Brave has not been high priority but as we travel further and longer... The system is original, with the interior wiring getting the signal from the bat wing antennae.nthe tv, however, is a new nexus which has good marks for RV, truck, etc, with all the bells and whistles as to comparability with 12 volt systems. When I tried to use the tv recently at an RV park, I unhooked the cable from the bat wing and put it into the cable at the park. Didn't work, just fuzzy channels after going thru the televisions cable download process. When I got home I investigated further and see that 1) removing the cable wall socket, it's way more then a simple connection of cable. There is a circuit board involved, and an on/off switch which I failed to even engage at the RV park. There are three cables coming into the system. One from the batwing and two probably feeding interior systems.
2) I never tried to turn the wall switch on when I was at the RV park. Didn't even see it.

Question is, this technology is really old. Would I be best off just by passing it all by putting a cable splitter on the cable entering the RV from the batwing? I don't know what the over the air channels offer thru the batwing but I could probably put an A/B switch on the cable feed to go between a cable Chanel system or the batwing feed. Any thoughts of what to do to come into 2017 technology?

before I or others comment I want to make sure I understand what you did.

- you unplugged the coax coming from the batwing antenna from the back of your TV and did what with that?

- what did you plug into the back of your TV?

- what is the make/model of your TV?