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09-19-2012, 04:00 AM
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Montana Fan
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Ronan
Posts: 385
M.O.C. #7615
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Cable TV plugs
Have any of you added additional cable plugs to the wall of your monty? When we go south we take the Dish system with us. No problem setting up satalite in the living room but the way the cables are run we can not use it in the bedroom, so I was thinking where the second cable comes out of the dish reciever I would tap another cable outlet in the wall going outside and then add one to the bedroom outside wall and just string a second cable enabeling us to have satalite in the bedroom.
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09-19-2012, 04:54 AM
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Seasoned Camper
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Saint Augustine
Posts: 50
M.O.C. #11321
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I added a cable outlet just below the existing. My TV is right inside so I had a way to get to the wall to drill a hole for mounting. Used a coax plate I got at CW with a snap lid on it. Hooked up to the existing cable that was there from the original installation that was routed up to the bed room.
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09-19-2012, 06:45 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: South
Posts: 2,499
M.O.C. #5140
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We used the antenna lead from the front bedroom and back fed the TV2 signal.
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09-19-2012, 08:14 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Lake Gaston
Posts: 8,773
M.O.C. #12156
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We carry two receivers and set up the second receiver in the bedroom with a dedicated line
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2002 3655 FL, 2005 3650RK
2010 3665RE, 2015 3910FB
F350 crew cab dually 6.7
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09-19-2012, 09:22 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: McKinney
Posts: 7,361
M.O.C. #6433
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Mine only had a single coax input for cable/sat. So I added a second one for the sat and use the original for park cable.
Easy on mine as the area I needed it was next to an outside wall with a small cavity between the TV cabinet and the external wall. I just removed an internal panel and could see the outer wall. Drilled a hole and installed an extenal coax connector plate with a plastic cover (similar to the original) and ran the cable to the sat box.
Don't see any reason you can't do what you describe. Just remember to remove the cable before you drive off!!!
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Riley, our Golden
2007 3075RL (recently sold, currently without)
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09-19-2012, 02:05 PM
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Gone Traveling
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: ALBUQUERQUE
Posts: 248
M.O.C. #12840
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Let me see if I understand one of these options. I would like to use a park's sat TV for the TV in the bedroom. I don't want to drill / install anything other than a coax from the park pedestal to the rig. Is that an option and where are the connections. Have a sat on the roof for the living room TV.
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09-19-2012, 02:30 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Copperas Cove
Posts: 1,426
M.O.C. #12096
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Why can't you use your own sat for the bedroom unless you only have a single receiver. If you have a dual receiver you can send the signal back to the bedroom TV. I don't have mine on the roof so my sat signal comes in the rig on the usual connection on the side of the trailer where it goes into the sat receiver. I have a TV 2 connection on my receiver where the signal comes out of the receiver and I send it back to the bedroom TV. Just remember to shut off the little green light in the bedroom closet. This way your over the air TV antenna still works, just have to turn on the green light and if you want to use cable just have to replace the cables coming into the rig and going to the bedroom TV with the 1 ft jumper cable. Sorry my schematic is a little rough lol lol -----now this way only works if you have a dual receiver so if you have a carry out or your service it thru Satellite To Go that uses a 211 receiver it won't work.
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09-20-2012, 11:57 AM
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Montana Fan
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Ronan
Posts: 385
M.O.C. #7615
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Could poss do as you are saying, but I think it would be a hassle going back and switching the cables every time one wanted to watch the local programing and then back for Sat TV, or am I looking at this wrong??
I have the dish 222K
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09-20-2012, 01:39 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Copperas Cove
Posts: 1,426
M.O.C. #12096
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Not too bad.. to watch over the air broadcast I turn off the sat receiver and turn on the green light in the closet. To switch back the reverse. The only hassle is when I move to a park that has cable TV. There I have to unplug the 2 cables hooked to the plate coming into the rig and connect up a 1 foot jumper wire the way it came from the factory. Got to be sure to label the 2 cables so you hook them back up the same. When over the air my TV's keep the over the air channel memory cause sat is on channel 3 for the main and 116 for the bedroom TV. I guess the biggest hassle is getting up to go to the bedroom closet to turn the green light on or off. I just didn't want to have to do a lot of rewiring in the trailer.
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09-24-2012, 03:59 AM
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Seasoned Camper
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Livingston
Posts: 50
M.O.C. #6999
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When I had my 06 3400rl I drill a small hole under the bedroom and fished a coax behind the dresser to the Direct tv reciever. I put a residential cable outlet and plate on the hole I drilled under the bedroom overhang and just connected the coax from the dish. Stayed high and dry underneath the overhang.
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