cablectv connection

Thanks to all. So, it looks like I'll need to add a connection in the power/services module area. Who would have thunk it...no cable connection. ADVENTURER CAMPERS ARE YOU LISTENING? :-D
BG

If you decide to run a wire, might as well run 2. The cable wire doesn't work with satellite so it has to have its own wire. I've never figured out why but that's how they are set up.

bikepsych wrote:
The camp site we were at last night offered 74 different cable channels. Sadly we couldn't get any of them as we couldn't find the cable connection. Had a brand new coaxial cable ready too.:-/

2013 Adventurer 89RB.
BG

Um you could have, or next time, simply run the coax thru a window-connect direct to your tv.
If your antenna connection is as pictured like Hedges, even IF you had an external connection plate, unless its connected to the inside plate you wouldn't receive any signal. Might be worthwhile to get access to the backside of inside antenna connection - if there is no wire connected to the cable-in connection, finding the external connection (if you had one) mute until you run some coax.

There absolutely is no external connection. That picture is from behind the panel where the tv is, inside the camper. Nothing is connected to the 'Cable in' coax.

As I said, it would be trivial to add. I haven't because I've never had the need for it.

I would be VERY surprised if there is no external cable jack...there is a wire clearly labeled in your picture?

Even our old 2003 Adv 810WS had a cable jack under the wing.

I think you need to go outside and look some more; check under both wings and also near the power/control center compartment.

They are rather inconspicuous...

Bill

bikepsych wrote:
The camp site we were at last night offered 74 different cable channels. Sadly we couldn't get any of them as we couldn't find the cable connection. Had a brand new coaxial cable ready too.:-/

2013 Adventurer 89RB.
BG

If you power cable pulls out from an outside access door, snake a coax cable through there. When you are unhooking, just coil the cable up next to your power cable.
On the inside you should be able to find a way to route it through cabinets.

Most newer TVs are cable ready and have built in digital tuners. Just run your cable wire from the back of the TV out to the pedestal. May not be pretty, but there must be a way if there is will.

Ps. what is the white knob in your picture for?

The camp site we were at last night offered 74 different cable channels. Sadly we couldn't get any of them as we couldn't find the cable connection. Had a brand new coaxial cable ready too.:-/

2013 Adventurer 89RB.
BG

Newer TVs, handle digital signals just fine. However, older TVs, the kind found in older rvs, do not. If you have an older tv, you won't be able to watch digital over the air or cable without a digital to analog converter. But, if the channel is scrambled, some Comcast channels are, you can't view them without a Comcast box.

Note Comcast boxes both convert digital to analog and descramble.

I'm actually pretty sure it has nothing to do with scrambling, that's an old technology. TV signals are now sent as digital mpeg4 so thus the need for the cable box. The local cable company stopped broadcasting analog so that they could use the bandwidth for digital channels, that's when the requirement for the cable box on each tv came in.... or a whole house system as I have with a main terminal and a satellite terminal at each tv location.