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06-08-2012, 10:33 AM
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Junior Member
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Houston Texas, working Camanche, IA
Posts: 25
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Need Help with Inlet on Satelite
When I run my wire from my dish through a window to receiver-and thru all 4 TV's it works fine..
When I run my wire to connection outside for Satelite I am not getting a signal....There are 2 Jacks on the exterior and the bottom one is marked satelite, the other is not marked, but neither one of them will pick up a signal. I have tried them both.
There are also 2 Jacks behind the main TV about 1' higher than the other and neither one of them are labeled.
I did get all TV's working with the jacks that are pre-wired just can not seem to get the inlet service to work.
Where does the trouble shooting begin. and is there some type of meter to tast these jacks, maybe a ohm meter or something.
This is on a 2013 300MP Raptor
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06-08-2012, 10:45 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: FL
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What model/year camper do you have?
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06-08-2012, 12:04 PM
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Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: shoreview mn
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try turning off the signal booster! Thats what i had to do on my 2011 cougar 31sqb
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06-08-2012, 12:23 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Surrey, British Columbia Canada
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If turning off the booster doesn't work, you may have to remove the wall plate with the coax jack. If the wire to connect satellite is running thru the amplifier on or off, it generally won't pass the signal thru. You will need to disconnect and attach your satellite receiver from that cable. Why they wire it from the factory that way and without labels is beyond me..
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06-08-2012, 12:51 PM
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Junior Member
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Houston Texas, working Camanche, IA
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The booster is in the bedroom
Is there any way to test the jacks coming into the trailer---with ohm meter or something of this nature...
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07-01-2012, 01:18 AM
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Junior Member
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Houston Texas, working Camanche, IA
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Issue Resolved
Purchased a Tester form Home Depot for around $30.00 and was able to test all jacks, cables and connections.....Really simple and easy to use...took me about 30 minutes to get everything resolved and now labeled and ready to go....What an awesome tester also
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07-01-2012, 05:34 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Bismarck, AR
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Nudels2u75
Purchased a Tester form Home Depot for around $30.00 and was able to test all jacks, cables and connections.....Really simple and easy to use...took me about 30 minutes to get everything resolved and now labeled and ready to go....What an awesome tester also
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Do you have a link for what tester you got?
Can you share what you found to be the problem?
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07-01-2012, 07:26 AM
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Member
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: kansas
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satellite help
same problem with our fuzion called keystone tech was very helpful, this worked on mine 1 hook dish to outside satellite imput 2 shut off antenna booster 3 inside behind tv u need a 2way splitter from radio shack,home depot,lowes, ect. hook out 1 of splitter to tv out 2 to top imput in wall the input of splitter go,s to out to tv on satellite box the lower wall imput go,s to satellite in on satellite box hope this fixes yours to happy camping butch
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07-14-2012, 03:40 PM
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Junior Member
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Houston Texas, working Camanche, IA
Posts: 25
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got r done
Went to home depot and purchase a satelitte cable tester for like $30.00 and test the entire camper and labeled everything, and also test all of my short and long cables the little special test light is awesome....makes it real easy...
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07-16-2012, 03:56 PM
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Member
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: brighton
Posts: 69
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I took a coax cable and soldered a 9V battery to it, plug it into an unknown socket, then attach a cable to what I think is the output, use the ol tongue test . cost 3 bucks ;c)
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07-17-2012, 05:34 AM
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Member
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Deer Lake
Posts: 46
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Workaround
The crux of the problem is that the " Satellite Prep" is nothing of the sort. If you want to rewire the trailer, that is your option, but I have a couple of workarounds that I use on my 2012 318SAB with my Bell basic receiver.
I found a very small 25' coax cable in Zellers (Philips?) - about 1/8" diameter that will run through a window and still allow it to close - which works fine as a satellite input. I also tried the flat coax available from Camco, but that was easy to cut and more bulky, short and expensive.
I had a Signal Sender/Receiver ( Radio Shack) lying around, and that will send the output of the Satellite Receiver to the TV of your choice and has the IR cable to allow the use of the remote where you are watching even if the Receiver is elsewhere.
My latest scheme places the Satellite Receiver in the under-storage along with a remote control extender ( $40 at Radio Shack / The Source) and an RF modulator. I send the RCA output from the Receiver to the RF modulator and the coax output from the modulator to the "Satellite Prep". This can then be watched on both TVs as a cable channel. The remote works through the floor without a problem, and I have one less set of wires cluttering up the entertainment space.
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