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Hi, I recently purchased a 2014 Palomino Canyon Cat and want to have my portable Direct TV dish set up in it.  problem is, there is a satellite dish on the roof.  Will that dish work in place of mine?  reason I am asking is that I need to have RG6 cable for Direct TV and I don't see any way to get a new cable inside.  Any ideas?  Thanks.  New to RV camping.

passin_thru · Answer

Tough one but you can tie piece together an RG6 cable, splice it to the old one and pull it through. It's not easy. You can also do like us and thread it through the floor, tie it to the frame and run it ro the rear and up along the ladder.

robsouth · Answer

Why do you need RG6 cable for Direct TV?

firefightersink · Answer

Thanks for the info. Again, new to this. Running the cables underneath, do you drill a hole and run it up into the wall? I have a center entertainment unit.

And I was reading the instructions to set it up and they specify the RG6. The one that is on my RV is a continuous cable from the satellite to the wall mount.

robsouth · Answer

The one on your RV already will work just fine. Try it.  I used to use the smaller cable for even long runs and never noticed any difference after I switched to RG6 after reading about it on here.  Sometimes I still use both if I have a long run to the portable sat dish.  Still works fine.

firefightersink · Answer

Ok, it only has the wall connector.  The other one is wired directly into the dish on the roof.  Any way around that?

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