TV cable hookup on Windsport 29M

[beeryboats]

Hi guys, I'm still trying to get sat tv to all the tv's in the coach. My receiver has component outputs, so I have a converter that changes it to coax. From there it goes into the cable in port on the side of the rig. But I cannot get the tv to go to channel 3! I've changed it to cable input and scanned for channels, I did the same on antenna. It will not "see" the input from the sat tuner. How can you manually select channel 3 on these new auto tune tv's?
Jay

[sky_blue]

You cant do this!. There is a amplifier and splitter in the system. Your dish receives voltage and signals from your cable box.

There is a thread here that shows how to modify the amp/splitter to supply the voltage to the dish when the Satellite box is inside your rig.

Good Luck!

[beeryboats]

I got it to work. The video is pretty crappy, but the converter box is very old. I had to shut off the power to the antenna, little switch above dinette, and it works. Wife walks up and punches "03" in the remote and there it was. We are going to buy a more modern converter and see if that improves the video quality.

[beeryboats]

Originally Posted by gbrown

You cant do this!. There is a amplifier and splitter in the system. Your dish receives voltage and signals from your cable box.

There is a thread here that shows how to modify the amp/splitter to supply the voltage to the dish when the Satellite box is inside your rig.

Good Luck!

I'm not using a cable box. I'm trying to convert the component cable output from my sat box to coax so I can hook that into the coax adapter on the outside of the coach. That way I can have the same video on all three tv's in the rv. The converter box I have is very old, has the technology improved? After I got the tv to channel 3 and turned off the power to the antenna, it works but with very poor video quality. Any ideas?

[sky_blue]

Something like THIS should do it

[bigben]

So it sounds like you have a modulator to take the composite (Yellow, Red and White) and convert it to a standard cable output. Experience (knowledge knots gained from banging my head into the wall figuring this out) says you simple need to place this modulated signal in the same cable stream supplied via your normal cable signal. I have done some similar on 2 coaches by using a splitter selector box on the same cable feed that goes to all the TVs in your coach. If you have a strong cable signal, you will have a strong split sat signal. BUT everyone of the coaches I've seen have a problem with a poor signal driven most often by poor splitters in the cable feed. Generally this is an issue with low quality splitters and/or poor connections to the splitters.

Also, most of the composite to cable modulators have a channel 3 or a channel 4 selector. If the signal (reception is bad) switch to the other channel.

Just our experience.

[beeryboats]

[QUOTE=bigben;94546]So it sounds like you have a modulator to take the composite (Yellow, Red and White) and convert it to a standard cable output. Experience (knowledge knots gained from banging my head into the wall figuring this out) says you simple need to place this modulated signal in the same cable stream supplied via your normal cable signal. I have done some similar on 2 coaches by using a splitter selector box on the same cable feed that goes to all the TVs in your coach. If you have a strong cable signal, you will have a strong split sat signal. BUT everyone of the coaches I've seen have a problem with a poor signal driven most often by poor splitters in the cable feed. Generally this is an issue with low quality splitters and/or poor connections to the splitters.

Also, most of the composite to cable modulators have a channel 3 or a channel 4 selector. If the signal (reception is bad) switch to the other channel.


Right! That's exactly what I'm up against. I was out in the coach torture testing the heater prior to this weekend's Halloween camp outing, so I had time to trace cables. Looks to me like I need to run another coax from the spiltter under the bed to the bedroom tv cabinet. With a male/male coax connector I can make the outside hookup go directly to the bedroom tv cabinet. It will go to the sat box and come out to the rca to coax converter. Then it will go back thru the original coax to the other two tv's. I can use the other rca output from the sat box to feed the bedroom tv. This is all dependent on a new rca to coax converter box actually working. Lol!
jay