Cable TV

[erniebpk]

Good morning,

I have a 2008 Weekend Warrior SLC 3505 fifth wheel toy hualer. I tried hooking up my direct tv cable from home to the connector thats on the outside of my trailer. I get no signal / service when i conncet my dircet tv box inside the trailer. I have tried turning on / off that power button thats on the wall plate next to the cable connector and ac plug, but still no luck. Am i doing something wrong? Is the outside cable connector for when you go to campsites that have cable ready hook ups?

Please help,

Ernie.

[Clay_L]

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.

[Sandia_Man]

With a single exterior coax input sat signal is running into splitter. Here is the mod I performed when I ran into this issue. Pretty simple to perform and no issues with sat signal reaching receiver when plugged into single exterior coax input.

[Tom_N]

There is probably a "splitter" in the coax line from your outside inlet to your inside outlet.

For satellite TV there can not be a splitter in the coax between the satellite dish and the satellite receiver. There can be a splitter between the satellite receiver and your TV.

Run the coax directly from your sat dish to your sat receiver.

For runs less than 100' either 75ohm rg6 or 50ohm rg59 coax is fine.

-Tom, W3TLN

[Carb_Cleaner]

Our rig has two separate co-ax cable inputs on the outside. The first co-ax connection being for cable input. The second terminal is a straight run of co-ax cable through the couch, the other end terminated in the television cabinet. It's my understanding that satellite boxes don't play well with switches and/or splitters in a cable run. We rented a Direct TV box somewhere in Arkansas and used the Satellite connection on the rig. No problem. The secret may be getting a straight shot from outside the couch to the inside, sans intermediate devices. It's also possible your rig has an Antennae/Cable switch. Make sure it's in the cable position, but it still may not function with a satellite box simply because the Antennae/Cable switch is in-line of your cable run.
EDIT: Perhaps taking that signal booster out of the picture will help. If, you can get to back of it and the cable attached to it. Maybe. I'm guessing a lot, here.

[rk911]

erniebpk wrote:
Good morning,

I have a 2008 Weekend Warrior SLC 3505 fifth wheel toy hualer. I tried hooking up my direct tv cable from home to the connector thats on the outside of my trailer. I get no signal / service when i conncet my dircet tv box inside the trailer. I have tried turning on / off that power button thats on the wall plate next to the cable connector and ac plug, but still no luck. Am i doing something wrong? Is the outside cable connector for when you go to campsites that have cable ready hook ups?

Please help,

Ernie.

I don't have satellite but I believe that the cable you're using is 75-ohm and that's what you need.

your TV should have a INPUT option on it's menu system...look on the remote as well as our TV's have that option right on the remote itself. one you find the INPUT option select CABLE. there may be more than one CABLE option so start with CABLE STD. once you've done that simply scan for channels the same way you would for new over-the-air channels. and the amplifier/booster you use for OTA TV should be OFF for cable.