help with external dish and R6 cable routing

[Fleetwood_Coupl]

Good Morning all,
I am in a location where I am forced to use an external dish to get a signal. I want to connect to the park cable connection but the black box of many buttons doesn't have a place for Sat in. I don't want to run the wire strait from the dish to the Sat receiver....how do folks get around the darn box and still have options for the rear tv.

[Fleetwood_Coupl]

That worked thanks for all the help. Never had sat tv before.

[Fleetwood_Coupl]

Yes the one in the middle is a little different looking. Thanks will try RF1.

[DSDP_Don]

One cable should be different looking and is usually a control cable. Just unscrew RF!, attach the barrel connector and the cable and see if you get a signal. A lot of the domes had a second cable for a second receiver.

[Fleetwood_Coupl]

I climbed up on top to look at the black dome to see if I could just unhook its output cable and connect to dish using a butt connector. Well there are 3 connections RF1, RF2 and one in the middle not marked. Anyone know which one goes to the Sat receiver?

[CA_Traveler]

Passin Thru wrote:
The park cable connection is has a different OHM value and will even get hot if you use it because you are transmitting signals via Amperage to the antenna to tune it. You must have the same Coax from receiver to antenna to get it to work. Make sense?

Voltage is supplied to the LNBs but the amperage is low and will not cause the coax to heat up.

Most coax including some mixture of types and various lengths will work OK for some signals. I agree it's best to have the correct consistent coax and connectors, etc but not always necessary.

[Passin_Thru]

The park cable connection is has a different OHM value and will even get hot if you use it because you are transmitting signals via Amperage to the antenna to tune it. You must have the same Coax from receiver to antenna to get it to work. Make sense?

[Fleetwood_Coupl]

Thanks bluegypsy I will give that a try...I did run it through the window to get it pointed and tuned.

[Fleetwood_Coupl]

Yes I have a Sat but the roof top dish can't get a signal because of trees in the way. So I acquired a dish and have it mounted to a pole nearby. I thought I should be able to connect it to the park cable connection so I don't have to run it throug a window for the next 6 months. Pushing the cable button will not work because it does not go through the Sat receiver.

[bluegypsy]

I've done it like this: Sat dish to outside "park cable" jack. On "black box", move cable from "cable in", plug that into sat box input. On sat box, connect cable from "Sat out" to black box "cable in". Push "cable" buttons on black box, tune TVs to channel 3 (or 4 depending on sat box) and all should work. This is how I did it and it worked. Cable from dish into driver's side window and into sat box input works too.

[Ozlander]

You have to remove the "cable" cable from the back of the box of buttons and connect it to the sat receiver.

[Fleetwood_Coupl]

Yes I have a Sat but the roof top dish can't get a signal because of trees in the way. So I acquired a dish and have it mounted to a pole nearby. I thought I should be able to connect it to the park cable connection so I don't have to run it throug a window for the next 6 months. Pushing the cable button will not work because it does not go through the Sat receiver.

[CA_Traveler]

BTW From the receiver I ran coax to the nearest outside locker connected to barrel connectors for the dish coax. There is no reason to have the connection at the back DS corner for the dish.

It just depends upon the location of your receiver.

[CA_Traveler]

You would use the cable button on the black box. However it may not work for satellite due to non satellite splitters and the rig coax type could be a issue.

If you can find any splitters and remove them it might work. Or just run a coax directly to the receiver from the dish.

[donn0128]

You have me really confused? You have satellite, yet you want to connect your satellite box to the park cable service? Is that right???? Cant be done! Cable is totally different from satellite service. To connect to the park cable, you might need a cable box from the park office, or possibly you can simply connect to the cable in on your RV and connect a short coax from cable port behind your TV to the coax in port on your TV.