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08-03-2008, 03:34 PM
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Montana Fan
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: St. Petersburg
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M.O.C. #4828
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Cable Reception in New LCD Televisions
We got a new 10th Anniversary 2980RL in May just before heading up here to Ma. We work for the USACE at West Hill Park in Uxbridge, Ma. They have cable to the main office and I tried hooking it up to the Unit today. I finally got beautiful reception in the bedroom TV, but the LCD in the living room as terrible. It was so snowy, it was hard to see some of the stations I hooked it up direct and the picture was good. We have had good reception with the regular antenna. Has anyone had this kind of problem. It is like there is a breakdown in the system somewhere, or maybe I don't have something set right. Yes I changed the antenna to cable. Is there anything else that I should have changed. Any Info would be appreciated.
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08-03-2008, 03:53 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Wappingers Falls
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M.O.C. #6263
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Check that the "booster" is not on (little light indicates its active) as that picks the relay to feed from roof top antenna.
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08-03-2008, 03:55 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Hartselle
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M.O.C. #45
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By chance did you leave the power booster on the regular antenna? You won't get a good picture.
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08-04-2008, 02:07 PM
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Montana Fan
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: St. Petersburg
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M.O.C. #4828
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The booster was off. The bedroom TV was sharp as a bell. The HD in the liviing area was snowy. Guess I will have to tinker with it until I figue out why the HD does not have a good picture. Any other ideas out there? Have a Good Day
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08-04-2008, 02:21 PM
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Montana Fan
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Kingsville
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M.O.C. #6588
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I,m mostly ignorant on this subject but know that you must use a "HDMI" cable for the HD. Do you use one? Bob
(I am assuming that the bedroom TV is not an LCD)
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08-04-2008, 03:34 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Wappingers Falls
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M.O.C. #6263
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Ok, Which one has the booster? Mine is in the living room and could be the coax connections are swapped? You can pull the two screws off the plate and pull it and the cable bundle out. What you need to do is figure out which one goes to the front TV, from the crank up antenna, from the outside cable feed.
Here's a picture;
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08-05-2008, 05:13 AM
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Montana Master
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M.O.C. #6920
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Understand you have the LR TV hooked to Cable. Is the TV programmed or on Cable or Air? when you hooked up to Cable from Air?? Dennis
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08-05-2008, 06:36 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Virginia Beach
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M.O.C. #6958
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I am with Dennis. I think your problem is in the "settings" on the LCD. [s]You may have to specify you are hooked up to cable and do another channel search[/s]. Sorry, see that you already said you did that.
Hope you get it figured out.
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08-05-2008, 08:57 AM
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Montana Fan
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Grain valley
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M.O.C. #5098
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I have an '08 10th anniversary 3075and am having the same problem. I made sure the booster is off so that is not the problem. I did the same thing and hooked up the living room TV direct to the cable and it was fine. I am suspecting a bad splitter or something is hooked up wrong. I do know that the connection behind the TV in the living room that is labeled "Cable/Satelite" is labeled wrong. So something is not right. Haven't had time to trouble shoot it yet. Let me know if anyone finds the real reason.
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08-23-2008, 08:49 AM
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New Member
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Homosassa
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M.O.C. #8739
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We have a 3400 RL with Olevia TV and DVD. We are having similar problem with the reception of the TV in the living room. Bedroom TV reception is fine. Also can't get the DVD to play on the TV. Contacted support for the DVD and so we have everything setup correctly. They wanted us to disconnect the dvd and try to hook it up to another tv to test. Couldn't do that at the time, so put everything on hold. If anyone has had the same problem, we'd love to hear what you did to fix. Thanks Al
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08-24-2008, 02:19 AM
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Montana Fan
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Signal Mtn.
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I had a similar problem. The picture on the LR Olevia LCD TV on some of the channels was just OK (not really great), and on others it was so bad that you couldn't watch them. When I did an auto channel search, on the LR Olevia LCD TV, I found maybe 22 analog channels and only 1 digital channel. The bedroom CRT TV had pretty good reception on all the channels, and when I did a channel scan on it I got maybe 25-30 channels on both the analog and digital sides. I had a rather long run of coax going to my RV from my house, and I suspected that I might have low signal strength on the cable so I put a powered signal booster in line at the house at the beginning of the long run of cable. I then did another auto channel scan on the LR Olevia LCD TV. This time I got 58 analog and 61 digital channels. So, from what I found it looks like the LR Olevia LCD TV needs a stronger signal than the bedroom CRT TV does to produce a good picture. I may be over powering the signal just a little because I am getting some noise bars on a few of the analog channels on the LR Olivia LCD TV. So if you decide to try a power booster you might want to find one with a variable gain on it so you can adjust the output power level from the booster. The booster I have is not adjustable.
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08-25-2008, 10:31 AM
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Montana Master
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Location: Oceanside
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M.O.C. #20
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Something obviously is very wrong. We replaced our old tv with an HD LCD in the living room and it works great on cable.
Noneck, that on/off switch on your diagram looks like the booster to me. The booster sends 12v to the antenna head.
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08-25-2008, 11:41 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Casa Grande
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M.O.C. #6333
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Steve did you do the 32" TV? and if so, how did you do it????
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08-25-2008, 01:22 PM
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Seasoned Camper
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Brooklyn
Posts: 76
M.O.C. #8226
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Ditto on the snowy reception with the lounge area TV and good reception on the bedroom TV. We had the saame issue when we first used it (2008 3465SA 10th annver). Also, had a small TV plugged in at the outside outside and it worked fine. Played with the TV remote controls for the big TV until we finally got the 'setup' done. Instructions are very vague at best, but it does correct the issue.
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08-25-2008, 02:17 PM
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New Member
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: San Antonio
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M.O.C. #8241
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HAHA! I knew if I lurked around here long enough I would be able to help somebody! This is my first official post excluding the introduction.
(Problem)- 09 3400RL with Sylvania 32” LCD with factory DVD player. Power booster off, bad cable reception hooked up to park cable.
(Solution)- The outside cable connector is connected to the DVD player and then it is jumped from there to TV (just like old VCRs). Anyway, DVD went south after second time using. After listening to the fine folks on this forum, I opted to replace it with another brand instead of getting dealer to replace with another one that would just break and cause undo stress (Thank You MOC). There was no input for cable with the new system and since I was forced to hook directly up to the TV I learned that the DVD player not only worked, it caused poor reception as well.
(Fix) – Junk the factory DVD player, go to your favorite electronics retailer, hook it up to your entertainment system and enjoy hours of trouble free viewing.
BTW- Although mine is not a fish attractor at the bottom of a lake like somebody else’s on this forum, I did pack it nicely in a box with the brand new remote, supplied cables and instructions and donated it to my local dumpster.
Tommy
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08-28-2008, 07:05 AM
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Montana Fan
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: moraga
Posts: 136
M.O.C. #5044
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I had bad recepttion from the begining,I found that the cables they put togeather where crossed,take your cable ends apart and look at the ends.Quite a few were bad on mine.
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08-28-2008, 07:33 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Land O Lakes
Posts: 2,751
M.O.C. #7753
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We found that a lot of the cable ends were bad on our system also. Rather than calling Keystone or trying to do warranty work I used my supply of linear compression cable ends. They are the same ones that the cable and dish installers use. I had bought the compression tool and several hundred ends plus the proper cable stripper before we got this rig. Since I knew that I was going to have to install extra cables in the new rig for the Hughes internet system and the new Directv HD system I stocked up on hardware. That little tool kit has saved my butt several times and allowed me to do minor cable work for others in several campgrounds in the last year of so. These are very easy to use... Dave
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08-28-2008, 02:16 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: anywhere
Posts: 912
M.O.C. #6260
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I found that the cable that runs to the booster from the front TV was crossed with the cable TV input. Changed the cables around and have a wonderful picture. I get satellite and air to both my TV’s using the internal wiring that came with the 3400rl, after sorting out the factory mis-wire. Didn't take to long and the trailer was blessed by a few holey names. I did a continuity check on each cable to sort them out. Note the cabling for cable is rg6 the cable for air is rg58/59, which helped sort them.
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08-28-2008, 02:33 PM
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Montana Fan
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Grain valley
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M.O.C. #5098
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JimF, Where were they crossed? Behind the TV or at the booster?? I suspect that I have the same problem. As I stated earlier, the cable labeled "Satelite/Cable" behind the TV is labeled wrong. Is that where you found the problem?? I haven't taken the face plate off and checked to see if it is RG6 or RG58/59.
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08-29-2008, 06:46 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: anywhere
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M.O.C. #6260
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actually at both ends, had rg58 ran to cable and the rg6 ran on the air side to the booster.
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