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Remote satellite dish

Yahoo Message Number: 9605
Can a remote dish be hooked to the cable connection located in the sanitation compartment? If so how? I have the Auto roof dish, but sometimes want to use remote dish.

Thanks in advance
Steve

Intrigue #10673

Re: Remote satellite dish

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Yahoo Message Number: 9608
Steve,

I can tell you how to do it on an older Dishnet box. When you look at the front of the box there are two cable connections on the left back and one cable connection on the right. The right cable connection is the satellite dish input cable. The upper cable on the left is the cable connection input (TV antenna) . Disconnect the top left cable and move it to the top right connection. This will allow you to use your external remote satellite dish thru your coach cable input. The lower left cable goes to your TV and you don't need to hook up anything to the upper left cable connection.

Ken

2000 Magna # 5811

Re: Remote satellite dish

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Yahoo Message Number: 9610
I can make some diagrams if desired, but here is a very simple approach.
1. The Sanitation bay coax runs to the AUX input of the RF switcher installed near your VCR.

2. Disconnect the coax to this AUX input.

3. Connect the coax just removed to the ANT/SAT connection on the RCA Diplexer Switch (D920 from BestBuys for $19.99). This is NOT a conventional splitter/combiner, but it takes either/both an RF and Satellite signal and splits it to two cables. One that is Satellite only, and the other is RF only.

4. Connect the ANT output from the RCA Diplexer to the RF switcher (where the cable was just removed).

5. Connect the SAT output from the RCA Diplexer to input B of an A/B Switch.

6. Connect your automatic dome Satellite Antenna coax to input A of the above A/B Switch.

7. Connect the output of the A/B switch to the Satellite Receiver.

8. Use the A/B switch to select which dish source you want to use.
If Park cable is connected to the sanitation bay, it is pass through to the AUX on the RF Switch. If a dish is connected, it is pass to the A/B switch.

9. If you want to connect both Park cable AND remote dish on tripod
to the sanitation bay coax, use a SECOND RCA Diplexer with the ANT for the Park Cable input and SAT for the dish input. The combined SAT/ANT output of the Diplexer is connected to the jack. When the combined signal get to the other RCA Diplexer, it is split back to two cables!!!

The Diplexer will work as a 2-1 or 1-2 connections -- signal can be combined or split. The difference in signal is that the Satellite signal as DC voltage on the coax. This splitter/combiner routes the signal to/from the correct coax. The Diplexer is typically used in pairs, but where only one source is connected in the sanitation bay, a second diplexer is not necessary.

Want a diagram?
Herb

Allure 2002 #30690

Quote from: rheavn

Re: Remote satellite dish

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Yahoo Message Number: 9618
Steve: The cable running from the storage bin to the multi-switch box over the driver compartment is the only one.
When I installed my automatic Winegard antenna I ran the coax along the roof and into the opening from the horns, etc.
I replaced the Winegard multi-selector with a unit that will handle several more TV's so that I could run two outside coax connections that would allow me to hook up to either "aux antenna" (my portable unit for areas where trees prevent the rooftop unit from working) or "park cable" by switching a coax switch located in the stroage bay.
Sound confusing? If you are interested, I'll post a diagram in the photo section. It does require some re-cabeling, but I like to have all the options: Off-air antenna, Park Cable, Rooftop Satellite antenna or portable Satelitte antenna.
If all of the above fail, sometime my wife and will engage in conversation. After 43 years of marriage, I once said we had probably talked about everything there is to say.

Somehow that didn't go over very well. I don't understand.

Larry
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