Rear TV pre-wire bad -- or am I missing something?

[rv rick]

We just added a roof satellite receiver (Kingdome) in our 2008 Winnie Tour 40TD and had it installed at the Kingdome factory. It works great on the front TV, but the rear TV, with a seperate receiver, has very low signal strength. The installers connected a piece of coax from the dome directly to the rear satellite receiver and things worked great. I replaced the coax ends with no change. So, it appears that the pre-wire installation from Winnebago might be bad.

My question is -- have any of you run into this sort of thing? Or is there some other item I should check? If it is bad, how do you fix the wire that is running through the walls?

We are arriving at the GNR tomorrow and hope to have them look at it.
Thanks!
Rick

[rv rick]

We just added a roof satellite receiver (Kingdome) in our 2008 Winnie Tour 40TD and had it installed at the Kingdome factory. It works great on the front TV, but the rear TV, with a seperate receiver, has very low signal strength. The installers connected a piece of coax from the dome directly to the rear satellite receiver and things worked great. I replaced the coax ends with no change. So, it appears that the pre-wire installation from Winnebago might be bad.

My question is -- have any of you run into this sort of thing? Or is there some other item I should check? If it is bad, how do you fix the wire that is running through the walls?

We are arriving at the GNR tomorrow and hope to have them look at it.
Thanks!
Rick

[Harry B]

I have splitter in this cable run. It is located behind the bedroom TV. It splits the cable run to the back for the basement TV and the bedroom TV connection. If you have the same setup (basement TV connection), you need to remove this splitter as the satellite feed will not work with a splitter installed.

[SargeW]

Hi Rick,

I had a very similar problem with a new 5th wheel I had bought a few years back. It turned out that the builder (Forest River) hired out the wiring of the satelite to a satelite company. They wired a splitter in line in the satelite feed, which is a huge no-no. The splitter was in the wall and had to be taken apart to get it out. A video selector box had to be used to seperate the individual satelite feeds, then all was well.

Not sure if it is your problem, but mine was similar.

Sarge