RV parks with cable connection

I can count on one hand the number of times the TV in our RV has been turned on.

Bill & Kate wrote:
Our experience on the east coast is that most private RV parks offer some sort of cable, but state and federal parks do not. We mostly use DishTV anyhow because we are often places were over the air is unreliable, and then we know we have the channels we want .....

Some sate parks do offer cable. Well at least one that we know of...Topsail Hill Preserve State Park.


Most private parks usually will offer some of some sort. Sometimes, the connection could be better.

nomad297 wrote:

RoyB wrote:
I prefer the Natl BROADCAST CLEAR channels but sometimes the wife wants to see her USA and TNT shows. CNN and WX CHannel are also neat to get over the cable connection...

The digital OTA has a full line of local stations including local RADAR and old movies and old TV series stations... ALL FREE to the public - Hard to beat that...

Roy Ken

Cable always trumps OTA.

Bruce

???

cruddy cable will not trump OTA.
I've stayed at a few hotels with cable service that was worse than aluminum foil on rabbit ears.

RoyB wrote:
I prefer the Natl BROADCAST CLEAR channels but sometimes the wife wants to see her USA and TNT shows. CNN and WX CHannel are also neat to get over the cable connection...

The digital OTA has a full line of local stations including local RADAR and old movies and old TV series stations... ALL FREE to the public - Hard to beat that...

Roy Ken

Cable always trumps OTA.

Bruce

As stated above, many private RV parks provide cable tv, but it is rare that it is in HD, sparse channel selection unless you like the generic channels, and reception is often snowy or distorted on many of the channels rendering it useless. Too unreliable for us to depend on, particularly if we want to watch a special event, or live broadcast of a favorite show and/or team.

Out west where we camp you have to be within 20-30 miles of a major city to pick up any OTA channels, but it is an alternative we utilize the couple times of year we happen to RV in the city. Just can't handle the endless commercials of OTA reception, although we deal with it when we only want to watch for an hour or so.

We rely on satellite tv at home and when we're RVing. We have the full blown package including several sport subscriptions and usually have all programming downloaded within 15 minutes. Locals too if we are in our home state and fringes of CO, UT, & AZ. The sat. dish system we use can access all the sats at one time making it capable of recording and viewing multiple stations simultaneously.

I'm single and stay in FHU parks all the time, so I like having cable at night. I've learned over the years to take 2 25' cables, 2 water hoses, and two stinky slinkys, with connectors. I'm gone all day, but I like a little entertainment or at least some noise at night.

I haven't noticed any at the campgrounds, but most of the RV parks that we've stayed at in urban areas seem to have them.

Many do have cable. You should get coaxial cable that is about 25 feet long.
I would also get a "F" coupler as many sites seem to have them missing.

We rarely stay in RV parks, but the few we've stayed had nice cable TV. We bring our favorite DVDs along, best and fast "screen" entertainment for us while in NPs, NMs, NFs, and BLMs, the majority of our nights.

Satellite technology is just too much for us, easily done without on the road and at home.

most of the ones I use have cable hookup. and they all had plenty that was not on OTA broadcasts, ESPN for one.
bumpy