Winnebago owners, what satellite plate is for?

I have tried using that combiner and it does not seem to work when I plug Cable TV into it. My workaround is to feed the cable through the window and directly to the TV. My satellite and OTA work OK.

Maybe my combiner is kaput.

DAS26miles wrote:
Gonzo, I also have one in my electrical storage area. But only one and it's for cable only. Tried hooking the satellite dish to it and no reception. My TV has a mode for air or cable. You would think that connector in the electrical box would work with satellite if it worked for cable. I haven't tried hooking up the dish in a few years or with my new receiver. After the dish is attached to the electrical box connector, I removed the coax jumper at the TV coming from the TV cabinet back wall. I then attached it to the receiver's input and added a jumper for the output to the TV. The TV was set to cable. No reception.
But I will try setting it up again this weekend and see if it works.

There are several ways to do it. Winegard recommends the diagram below.

Making the connections the way Winegard recommends does not require adding any coax connectors to the wallplate.

Note that this assumes your front TV is connected to the coax connector on the front of the wall plate. If yours isn't, there should be a splitter in the line labeled "To second TV" that will send the signal to both the front and rear TVs (if you have two TVs).

What Winegard calls a "power supply" below is the wall plate with the antenna booster switch and LED showing when the amplifier is on.

If you still want to be able to use the external cable in for both cable TV and the external dish just add an A/B switch to switch the incoming coax from the sat receiver "sat input" to the sat receiver "TV input".

If your receiver doesn't have a coax output (and many new ones don't) and you still want to use the batwing antenna you will need to use an A/B switch to switch the signal between the receiver and the antenna out connection on the wall plate.

One thing not shown in the diagram is using the RCA type connections or the better quality "component" type output or the HDMI (best) output between the sat receiver and the TV.
That will yield a much better picture with no interference from any local channels. You have to select a "video in" with your TV menu instead of using channel 3 (for example).
Some newer satellite receivers don't have a coax output so you may have to use HDMI or component connections.

If you have a video distribution box that will have to be taken into account.

Gonzo, I also have one in my electrical storage area. But only one and it's for cable only. Tried hooking the satellite dish to it and no reception. My TV has a mode for air or cable. You would think that connector in the electrical box would work with satellite if it worked for cable. I haven't tried hooking up the dish in a few years or with my new receiver. After the dish is attached to the electrical box connector, I removed the coax jumper at the TV coming from the TV cabinet back wall. I then attached it to the receiver's input and added a jumper for the output to the TV. The TV was set to cable. No reception.
But I will try setting it up again this weekend and see if it works.

I have a connector at my rear electrical/storage area which includes a connector for the satellite, just as your shows. The cable from there leads to a small storage cabinet near the TV with a connector labelled satellite, and that is where I connect my Dish receiver. However, I noticed that there is a dedicated space on my roof for a satellite dish where one cuts into the roof for the automatic antenna installation.

Clay L, thanks for the diagram. Since I use an external satellite dish, I don't see where hooking the dish to anything but directly to the receiver would work for me.
I did discover yesterday that I can connect my dish to the outside radio/TV entertainment hookups. I attached the dish coax to the external output that would have been for a TV. Then on the inside, hook up to coax that would normally go to the TV to the sat receiver I get reception!!! I don't know if that's going to create a problem. I used a flat coax for window/door and can close the entertainment center cabinet door.

This is a diagram I made of mine as it came from the factory. If you don't have a dish installed the coax is there but is underneath a decal on the roof that shows where to cut a section out to access it and install a dish.


It's hard to read but the second splitter is behind my microwave and one output goes to the outside entertainment center and the other to the rear TV.

The coax on the right side of the plate comes from the service bay connector and had a red band on it.

The Winegard wall plate (they call it a power supply) acts as A/B switch. When the button is pushed and the LED lights up the rooftop TV (batwing) is switched to the first splitter and the amplifier in the batwing head is turned on.
If you are using an RV park TV cable connected in the service bay, the switch needs to off.