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dpgllg
Explorer
Jun 24, 2020

How to get the Television to work in bedroom

I have a 2017 5th wheel and mounted the TV in the bedroom. There was already one in living room. I have to coax connectors (one cable and one satellite) and the button for antenna boost right above bedroom TV as well as power.

I hook a coax from campground pedestal to the coax connecter in side of 5th wheel marked cable and I connected a coax from connector right above bedroom TV to cable and then to TV. No picture.

What am I doing wrong?

Dave
  • wa8yxm's avatar
    wa8yxm
    Explorer III
    Jun 25, 2020
    MitchF150 wrote:
    On my trailer, the SAT and the TV cables were miss marked in the bedroom.

    I just used the one marked SAT for TV and it worked fine. I swapped the labels and all good.. I'll probably never have SAT, but that's what worked for me..

    Good luck! Mitch


    That is a very common problem.. Glad you figured it out.
  • bikendan's avatar
    bikendan
    Explorer
    Jun 25, 2020
    dpgllg wrote:
    I have a 2017 5th wheel and mounted the TV in the bedroom. There was already one in living room. I have to coax connectors (one cable and one satellite) and the button for antenna boost right above bedroom TV as well as power.

    I hook a coax from campground pedestal to the coax connecter in side of 5th wheel marked cable and I connected a coax from connector right above bedroom TV to cable and then to TV. No picture.

    What am I doing wrong?

    Dave


    in my TT, the living area tv worked fine on cable but not the bedroom tv, which only worked on OTA signal.
    i had add a splitter to get cable to both tvs.
  • dougrainer's avatar
    dougrainer
    Nomad
    Jun 25, 2020
    MitchF150 wrote:
    On my trailer, the SAT and the TV cables were miss marked in the bedroom.

    I just used the one marked SAT for TV and it worked fine. I swapped the labels and all good.. I'll probably never have SAT, but that's what worked for me..

    Good luck! Mitch


    Bingo, Usually. But, he states he has the BOOSTER in the Bedroom. So, the coax connection on the booster plate should have OTA when ON and Coax when OFF. He needs to verify his Living Room TV has Cable when the booster is OFF or ON. I have a feeling the Living Room has Cable regardless of the position of the booster button. He needs to check and report on this. Doug
  • MitchF150's avatar
    MitchF150
    Explorer III
    Jun 25, 2020
    On my trailer, the SAT and the TV cables were miss marked in the bedroom.

    I just used the one marked SAT for TV and it worked fine. I swapped the labels and all good.. I'll probably never have SAT, but that's what worked for me..

    Good luck! Mitch
  • dpgllg's avatar
    dpgllg
    Explorer
    Jun 24, 2020
    agwill wrote:
    Turn off antenna booster and select cable input on tv and scan for channels.


    I do have the antenna booster turned off and I thought I did the scan for channels but will try that again
  • dpgllg's avatar
    dpgllg
    Explorer
    Jun 24, 2020
    2oldman wrote:
    Ok, stupid question, is the park cable working?


    Yes cable works fine on living room TV just not bedroom.
  • agwill's avatar
    agwill
    Explorer
    Jun 24, 2020
    Turn off antenna booster and select cable input on tv and scan for channels.

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