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TV Hookups

Yahoo Message Number: 75000
After reading everything I have...still confused about hooking up for a Dishnetwork type satellite dish. The drawings I have seem to account for a roof type satellite arrangement but....
1. Do I use the water bay connection for cable and/or Dishnetwork?
2. In the overhead cabinet (right of driver); there are 2 unused cable type connections, are these for the Dishnetwork receiver? If so which is input and which is output?
2002 Allure 40 ft/Crown point.
I appreciate your insight.

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Yahoo Message Number: 75007
The first question is what kind of dish do you have on the roof and what connections does it provide? Next what kind of cable leaves the dish, RG6 is preferred, RG58 or RG59 was more common in the past.
A cable installer has a tool that introduces a tone signal at on end of a cable and detects it at the other end. This can also be done with an Ohm meter with long leads. this is the easy way to find matching cable ends.
The cable input in the utility bay usually goes through a signal booster that is not compatible with Dish receivers.
Now you need to determine the type of tuner, single or duel?, DVR? etc. Does the tuner need one or two signal feeds. The signal must also pass through the dish controller that aims the dish.

Bob Wexler

SOB with 2 DishNetwork Dual tuner DVRs

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Yahoo Message Number: 75021
There is no dish on the roof.

I am using RG6 from my portable Dish antenna and the antenna is manually tuned/oriented with each setup. Don't know the tuner configuration.
Merle

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Reply #3 –
Yahoo Message Number: 75022
Merle

Your portable dish will have 1 or 2 or 3 LNBs (the white bulbs in front of the dish).
And connections for up to four RG6 cables.
The simplest way is to run the cable through a window to the receiver.
next best is to snake an RG6 wire from the receiver down the windshield post and to the outside under the hood or in a fender well where you can "mount" the RG6 connector in a convenient and protected spot. Then connect your RG6 to the connector. If you have more than one receiver you can place more connectors in the same fashion for each receiver.

Bob Wexler
SOB

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Yahoo Message Number: 75025
We just had a Dishnetwork portable hooked-up. The tec plugged into our cable hookup in the electric compartment. His only problem was getting a signal to the rear tv. After much searching he found a splitter buried in the rats nest of wires in the audio/vidieo cabinet. Satillite dosen't do well with splitters.

Tom

2005 Inspire 51177

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Reply #5 –
Yahoo Message Number: 75026
At least in my 2K Magna, there are 2 external connections that work well with portable dishes. I have one because I can't always pick up the satellites with my on roof Trackvision.
One is on the side with the water bay and a telephone hookup and the other is in the external TV compartment. Both are not connected to anything in the TV control area in the front of the coach. Home Depot sells a cable tracer if you want to go that way but that is what I used to trace the RG cable back. Hooked up the input to the cable box and found the wires going to each TV and connected them through a splitter. Bought a remote extender at a yard sale (some coaches came with them). I didn't see a need for 2 receivers.
There is one other issue and that is the compartment that the TV equipment is located that you would put the receiver is not ventilated and needs to be cooled somehow because it just gets too hot. I blew out at least one Direct box and one Dish box and finally just took it out and hung it on the passenger's chair.

Jon Baum

Magna 2K 5923

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Yahoo Message Number: 75028
Still early in the AM. The other external connection is in the compartment that has the refrigerator. CC put an RG cable in there. Neither was/are hooked up in the TV/stereo compartment in the coach.

Jon Baum

Magna 2K 5923