Hooking up Dish with Wally to my Camper

Thank you for all of the ideas on getting my sat system working. My husband fixed it from reading these posts and there is now TV in the camper with plugging into the input on the camper and hooking Wally up to the output wire. I am so happy to be part of this community where people help each other with RV questions. Happy Camping to all.

My exterior cable hookup never worked. I ran new coax cable to my receiver and from there to the bedroom. Now I have great reception with a dish and with my new Playmaker. When I hook to cable I disconnect from my receiver and hook in a two way splitter with one leg going to front room tv and the other going to the bedroom tv.

Very common problem for RVs with a single exterior coax input. Cable tv works fine as you have noted, but satellite signal won't reach receiver due to splitter. Here is a quick mod that alleviates this issue. I performed this mod over 9 years ago and have run both Dish network and Directv through our single exterior coax input, even HD content without any issues since.

I have a Tailgater and use the outside hookup. I have had to put it through the window as well.
Reason being, the connector came off the wire behind the inside connector box (remove the plate and check the wires) those connectors get compressed due to thin rv walls.

Also, make sure the power roof antenna booster is off .

Also... sometimes the tech that assembles them, installs the interior box upside down. Try to use the other wire and see if it works.
The outside exterior wire could also not be tight. You have to pop the exterior connector off to check that. Usually held sealed using plumbers putty, just press it back in place.

It will take a little time because each time you have to try things out, you have to wait for it all to boot up.

You'll know right away if its going to boot up when you see the "state/scan" icon then it usually says "test 1 of 3"

if you see "test 1 of 50" you do not have a connections, dont waste your time waiting for 50 tests.....you'll have another birthday by then. :)

p.s. if you notice the rear of the recvr, the "IN" connector is usually a blue center connector. Thats a 3g connector.
On the exterior and interior connectors, I swapped out the white center barrel connectors for the 3g blue ones called "F81" 3g connector. I did that for peace of mind because the tailgater has the tv signal as well as 12 v power going thru the same cable and that connector. Im not 100% sure a standard 1.8g connector will hold up over time.