lightkeeper69
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When I am in a campground or RV park with cable, I have no problem receiving programs on both TVs in my Jayco travel channel by plugging in the connection to the coax input on the side. However when trying to use my DirecTV receiver I have no reception - even with the power booster switch off.
Any ideas? Thanks.
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Satellite usually won't work on the cable connection. Try running coax from satellite dish straight to receiver without any splitters.
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The signal from the dish needs to have a direct un-impeded path to the receiver. Typically the TV's amplifier (power booster) negates the signal when the coax from the dish is connected to the outside cable connection. There's a simple Satellite Rewire modification to bypass the booster. It works. The alternative would be to fish a separate line through the RV, cabinets etc., whatever... Hope it helps.
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DirecTV techs happened to be in a RV park we were at last week. I have the Winegard Dome and 2 inputs on the side of our 5r. The sat input worked perfect but not the cable input same reasons as stated above. The techs took the by pass off on the inside so now I enjoy my DVR. Our 2nd TV will either use the batwing or park cable fished through the window with a flat cable.
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The dish receiver feeds dc voltage to the LNB on the dish. Any obstructions such as a splitter can block the voltage from getting out to the dish.
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Eycom wrote:The signal from the dish needs to have a direct un-impeded path to the receiver. Typically the TV's amplifier (power booster) negates the signal when the coax from the dish is connected to the outside cable connection. There's a simple Satellite Rewire modification to bypass the booster. It works. The alternative would be to fish a separate line through the RV, cabinets etc., whatever... Hope it helps.
Your link will not work for me.
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Eycom
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ADAD437 wrote:Eycom wrote:The signal from the dish needs to have a direct un-impeded path to the receiver. Typically the TV's amplifier (power booster) negates the signal when the coax from the dish is connected to the outside cable connection. There's a simple Satellite Rewire modification to bypass the booster. It works. The alternative would be to fish a separate line through the RV, cabinets etc., whatever... Hope it helps.
Your link will not work for me.
Works fine from this end. Try, http://www.flamingsquid.com/images/satellite_rewire.pdf. Good luck.
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ADAD437 wrote:Eycom wrote:The signal from the dish needs to have a direct un-impeded path to the receiver. Typically the TV's amplifier (power booster) negates the signal when the coax from the dish is connected to the outside cable connection. There's a simple Satellite Rewire modification to bypass the booster. It works. The alternative would be to fish a separate line through the RV, cabinets etc., whatever... Hope it helps.
Your link will not work for me.
The link is to a pdf file; the link works for me.
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Assuming your Satellite receiver is in the A/V cabinet where all your other connections are......
Locate the park cable coax, coming in from the outside connector. Connect that cable to the sat-in on your sat-receiver.
With this setup, I can receive SAT when the dish is connected to the park cable input. When I have CG Cable connected, I just leave the SAT receiver OFF and the cable feeds right through as if the sat receiver wasn't there.
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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 wall plate.
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".
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.
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