lowreyfarris
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My tailgater works fine when I run the coax from it directly to the receiver, but when I hook it up to the park outlet on the back of my RV it does not detect the dish. I believe the cable running from the outer outlet to the living room is RG6 but it doesn't specifically say that it is on the cable itself. It does say 75 ohm, which I believe is specific to RG6. Plus it is a 2007. I also hooked up the output of a VCR to the outside and verified there was a signal. It was a bit fuzzy but that VCR hasn't been used in at least 10 years.
Has anyone else had issues similar to this?
I am wondering if the outlet outside of my RV may not be capable of passing the higher frequencies required.
I would also like to k ow if anyone has replaced the cable running thru the walls? As a last resort I may try to run a new cable but want to know if this can be done by coupling the new cable to the old one and just pulling it thru. It is a 2007 Four winds 28A.
Thanks in advance
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Ranger Smith
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It dosen't find it because that cable on the back is generally for cable TV. If you want to use it for satellite you need to unscrew your antenna booster and remove the cable from it and connect it direct. There are usually 3 cables on the antenna booster. One is antenna in, one goes to rear tv, middle one goes to the outside outlet. Remove the middle one and connect it direct to your receiver and it should work fine
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You apparently do not have a dish ready system, just cable input.
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Ranger Smith wrote:It dosen't find it because that cable on the back is generally for cable TV. If you want to use it for satellite you need to unscrew your antenna booster and remove the cable from it and connect it direct. There are usually 3 cables on the antenna booster. One is antenna in, one goes to rear tv, middle one goes to the outside outlet. Remove the middle one and connect it direct to your receiver and it should work fine
This is what I had to do when I had a TT. It isn't that hard. Macktee
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Just make sure you label any connections you remove as to where they were, so you can put it back the way it was if need be! It can become very confusing if nothing is properly labeled....
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Macktee wrote:Ranger Smith wrote:It dosen't find it because that cable on the back is generally for cable TV. If you want to use it for satellite you need to unscrew your antenna booster and remove the cable from it and connect it direct. There are usually 3 cables on the antenna booster. One is antenna in, one goes to rear tv, middle one goes to the outside outlet. Remove the middle one and connect it direct to your receiver and it should work fine
This is what I had to do when I had a TT. It isn't that hard. Macktee
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Ranger Smith wrote:It dosen't find it because that cable on the back is generally for cable TV. If you want to use it for satellite you need to unscrew your antenna booster and remove the cable from it and connect it direct. There are usually 3 cables on the antenna booster. One is antenna in, one goes to rear tv, middle one goes to the outside outlet. Remove the middle one and connect it direct to your receiver and it should work fine
I say start easy and then dig down a layer till you find it. This may be silly but is the tv antenna booster on? if so turn it off. in my case the cable and sat signal will go through the booster as long as it is powered off. If a winegaurd then there is a small black button on the wall plate and a green light indicating if the booster is on or not.
If not, Ranger Smith has good advice.
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RVs are probably all different. On mine, I had a single coax input for park cable. It went to the ant booster switch box. But before it did, it went into the cabinet behind the TV thru a short coax jumper across two coax connectors. I could remove the short jumper and connect the Dish box to one port. That put the sat coax directly to the Dish box. And I could connect the Dish box antenna output to the other port of the jumper and get the Dish channel to the bedroom TV.
I later installed a second external coax connector for the sat. Now I have the original one for the park cable and a second one for the sat connection.
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1995brave
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RG-59 and RG-6 are both 75 ohm cables, but RG-59 is only good to around 900 meg where as RG-6 is good to over 1 gig frequency response. Satillite dishes require RG-6 for their LNB to operate properly. Most RVs are run with RG-59 because that is all that is needed for cable and antenna.
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lowreyfarris
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Problem solved!
What I learned; there are different types of barrell connections, with different frequency ratings. The ones with the blue center are able to pass up to 3Ghz and are recommended for satellite connections. The ones with white or grey centers are used for standard cable connections. I pulled the plate off the outer connection and changed the white connector with a blue one (from Home Depot). Problem solved.
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