JoelP
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I bought a 6 year old RV from someone who was too deaf to watch TV and never used any of them. Therefore he had nothing to say about whether any of this electronics actually worked. My wife and I decided to try to make the Winegard Roadtrip SD that came with this rig work, so I bought a new H24-100 DirectTV receiver on eBay and hooked it up per the instructions I found on the internet. In the cabinet just over the drivers side there is a place to plug a coax in for either external antenna or rooftop antenna, so I connected my receiver to the rooftop antenna input. To my surprise it didn't work. After trying many things I discovered that the coax from the receiver was not delivering the 13+ VDC (and probably no other signal) to the electronics of the satellite, so I ran a wire directly from the receiver to the satellite electronics and it worked like a charm. My initial thought was that the wrong coax wire was connected to the rooftop side so I reversed this in the cabinet and again no signal to the antenna.
Perhaps this coax is routed elsewhere and the dc voltage or signal is not making it to the antenna. Does anyone have any experience with this in their Winnebago or Itasca? My next step will to be to pull the plate and try to trace where this coax goes, but sure would benefit from experience here.
Thanks!
Perhaps this coax is routed elsewhere and the dc voltage or signal is not making it to the antenna. Does anyone have any experience with this in their Winnebago or Itasca? My next step will to be to pull the plate and try to trace where this coax goes, but sure would benefit from experience here.
Thanks!