New motorhome hooking up tvs

[concord_05]

Have a 2010 Itaska Suncruiser. Have the dish tailgater with the Z211 receiver which has only one coax connection. The living room hookups has a coax in from satellite dish into receiver and then another coax hookup that goes out to the main switch box which serves both tvs. At the moment I have connected the main tv with rca cables from the receiver to the tv. And can watch the main tv. I believe the 3 choices to hook to the back of the z211 is rca, hdmi and Ethernet. Does a chord exist that has coax on one end and either of the 3 choices to hook the receiver to the switch Box so the receiver with go to both tvs.(I am aware that you can only get one satellite at a time on the tailgater so it will be the same channel) thanks for any advice you can give.

[Bill_Satellite]

If you want HD on your main TV then you will need to use HMDI between the receiver and the main TV. You then then use an RF Modulator RCA to Coax plugged into the 3 RCA ports and the output of the modulator connected to the switch box. This will give you a SD picture on the 2nd TV. If you are watching the 2nd TV and you can't see the receiver you will not be able to change satellite channels unless you can point the remote at the receiver. You can also upgrade the remote to RF or replace the current receiver with a Wall which already has RF built in.
You could also get a 211K receiver which has it's own coax output in addition to the HDMI.

[MrWizard]

Broom Hilda watch TV

[mobeewan]

The output connections on the back of my satellite receiver are as follows - one cable to TV connection, two sets of RCA connections and 2 S type video connectors. I used a 3 foot RCA cable to the first television. Then I ran a 20 foot RCA cable that I bought at Radio Shack from the satellite receiver along the bottom of an overhead cabinet then along the ceiling to the second television in the front bedroom.

You might think about using a long RCA or HDMI cable to reach the farthest tv and use a shorter cable of the other type to the closer tv.

[TechWriter]

Solo wrote:
No, I do not think it will work. The only way to mirror programming is via the HDMI connection on your receiver.

Wrong. You can use an RF Modulator.

[AllegroD]

Solo wrote:
No, I do not think it will work. The only way to mirror programming is via the HDMI connection on your receiver. I have used a HDMI splitter with excellent results in our Sticks-and-bricks for a second TV. Many have done the same thing in their RV but it will require running an additional cable. Here is what I have used. HDMI Splitter I don't think there is any other way for as cheap to mirror programming. I actually have a factory distribution system in our coach that will send to all 3 TVs via RCA connections so did not need to go that way in our motorhome.

X2 on the HDMI splitter. Works great.

[kzspree320]

I have the King satellite antenna for Directv. The Winegard satellite antennas have a separate power cord to get power to the antenna so it can move. I think yours is like mine since they are both made by King and do not have a separate power cord to the antenna. The satellite antenna actually gets the power to move/turn to locate the satellites from the coax from the receiver. After much research, I learned that mine only works when the coax from the antenna is plugged directly into the receiver. If I plug it into the fiver satellite connection it will not work because the voltage will not be passed through to the antenna. I have to take the coax attached to the antenna and pass it through my slideout seals and plug directly into the satellite receiver. It's pnly about a foot or so of coax that can be seen but rarely is noticed by anyone.

Yours may or may not need to be done this way, but mine does so it may help. I've always just been content to get satellite TV on our main TV and never worried about the bedroom TV that we hardly ever use. Good luck.

[Solo]

No, I do not think it will work. The only way to mirror programming is via the HDMI connection on your receiver. I have used a HDMI splitter with excellent results in our Sticks-and-bricks for a second TV. Many have done the same thing in their RV but it will require running an additional cable. Here is what I have used. HDMI Splitter I don't think there is any other way for as cheap to mirror programming. I actually have a factory distribution system in our coach that will send to all 3 TVs via RCA connections so did not need to go that way in our motorhome.

[concord_05]

I see it also has a USB hookup.