Satellite Hook up 2005 Seabreeze LX

[brabono]

Anyone know if any of cables etc in cabinet overhead passengers side has anything already available for portable saelite connection

[Fred and Bonnie]

Short answer is no, some have addapted their "Cable" line for a portable unit, but then you lose the ability to tap into a parks cable system. I use a portable 90% of the time by addapting a hook-up thru the DVD player. Yes, more wires but I still have a good tube type TV and want to use my home DVR while on the road. When the TV fails, I will have to completely redo the electronics cabinet, but that's is down the road.

Fred

[Belgian]

I'm in the process of installing a portable satelite and Dish DVR. I've read all the posts in the tech section until my head was spinning. My goal is to have Dish on both front and rear tv's and be able to watch different channels on each tv. Here is what I've done so far; bought a used Dish 1000 Plus with 3 head lnb. Ran a short RG6 cable to the AUX connection in the rear of the selector box. Ordered a Dish 625 DVR.
My plan is to; connect the satelite dish to rear of the DVR with a spliter, run a cable from the tv1 plug on the DVR to the AUX cable and run the front tv on AUX, run a cable from tv2 plug on the DVR to the input of the DVD palyer and run the rear tv on DVD. Now, that may or may not work, time will tell. I should receive the DVR next week and I'll try to hook everything up. The Dish 625 is not HD, but our tv's are not HD either.

[Gayland]

I have DirecTV and use a portable tripod with a dish. I have a DVR installed in the right entertainment cabinet to the right of the TV. The output of the DVR is connect to the satellite input of the entertainment selector so that I can redirect the output of the DVR to any or all the tv's. I then ran dual cable from my DVR satellite inputs down thru the right window molding to the engine compartment and let it hang out there. Then I sit my tripod dish up as needed and run the dual cable from the dual output LNB into the engine compartment from beneath. I then connect the four cables (two from dish and two from DVR) together. Point the dish and I have DirecTV on my tv's. Granted I can only watch the same program on all tv's but a variation of this can be used if you have a splitter. The trick for me was the ability to run from the outside dish to the DVR.

[two2go]

I installed a coax connecter in front of driver's side front wheel and ran coax thru firewall to under dash in center. I set Dish receiver under dash forward of doghouse (W22 workhorse). Ran another coax from receiver up side windshield column to overhead A/V cabinet and into Winegard switch box. This allows me to select antenna, cable, or satellite inputs. I only have one TV so no issues with separate sat. programming. I use a tripod-mounted dish.

[Wolfpack Fan]

I'm wanting to do the same thing. Our guest room has a Direct TV receiver that doesn't get used to often, but is on our plan, so I figure I'll use that one. I've already got the direct tv dish, just need the tripod now. Our local Direct TV office throws away dishes, cabling and all sorts of stuff on a daily basis, when the technicians return at the end of the day. I'm not to proud to dumpster dive for good free stuff.

Not sure if this will work, but my plan is to plug dish into the coax connector in the rear drivers side cabinet where the shore line/power cable is stored. Where that feeds into the distribution box in the front cabinet, I'll disconnect it, feed it into the dtv receiver box, then out from the receiver box back into the distribution box. Seems like it would work, and give me dtv in both tv's. The 32" lcd that we set up in the basement for outside viewing would be a little different. I'd just go straight from the dish to the dtv box and into the tv. Both components will fit neatly in the basement storage and be easilly securable by closing the doors and locking them.

I'll be interested in seeing more posts about this.

[two2go]

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Originally Posted by Wolfpack Fan Not sure if this will work, but my plan is to plug dish into the coax connector in the rear drivers side cabinet where the shore line/power cable is stored. Where that feeds into the distribution box in the front cabinet, I'll disconnect it, feed it into the dtv receiver box, then out from the receiver box back into the distribution box. Seems like it would work, and give me dtv in both tv's. The 32" lcd that we set up in the basement for outside viewing would be a little different. I'd just go straight from the dish to the dtv box and into the tv. Both components will fit neatly in the basement storage and be easilly securable by closing the doors and locking them. I'll be interested in seeing more posts about this.

If you dedicate your cable from the rear of the coach to satellite input, then it seems to me you will lose your capability to plug into cable TV where it may be available, unless the cable signal will pass through your sat. receiver. I've never checked on my Dish unit. Also, my distribution box has outputs to 3 separate TVs, so not sure if you don't have that or how your basement TV gets its signal.
On a side note, it was fairly straightforward when all TV signal was RF or cable analog. A single coax for the various feeds worked, and most coaches older than a couple of years have coax. Now I have a hybrid of RF, component, and HDMI feeds which is why I only have one TV that is close to the A/V equipment. Kind of a transition mess right now, and I hear that HDMI may not be the final standard?

[Fred and Bonnie]

The set-up is dictated by your sat. receiver and the types of TV inputs. I don't see a simple solution unless you do a complete TV & Sat Dish change-out. When I get around to redoing the system, I forsee a real conflict trying to use HDMI components interlaced with coxial, it just doesn't work well.

Keep in mind that if you are using HD equipment, routed through a switching unit, using coxial cable will downgrade both the audio and visual.

fred

[brabono]

There are two extra wires(looks like cable connection) the bottom opening in my Overhead passengers compartment. Don't know what they are there for. Hoping mightt be some sort of connection for Satelite. My RV has a Grade Break switch that isn't listed on my specs so hoping maybe some other things not listed . Any 2006 owners have any answers

[brabono]

Does a DVR make it easier. I just have Direct HD receiver.A TV in front cabinet, a combo VCR/DVD player, a switch box. I use another TV outside but just connect it up manually as needed

[Belgian]

Just completed the install of our satellite system. Here is what I started with; 2004 Dolphin with the large RCA TV in the front and a RCA TV in the bedroom. Both TVs had the digital converter boxes installed. The distribution box is the Winegard VS6412. RCA DVD player. Factory installed surround sound.
My goal was to be able to watch different channels on each TV at the same time.

What I started out with was a used Dish 1000 satellite.

I mounted the dish to a piece of plywood so I could easily move it around during the installation process.
Purchased a Dish DVR 625 from www.installeroasis.com they sell refurbished units. They also added the DVR to our account.

Once I had all the components I started hooking things up. After a few tries here is what I ended up with and it works great.
Power for the DVR comes from the outlet in the entertainment cabinet that is powered by the inverter so we can watch satellite TV while dry camping.

The satellite cable connects to a terminal under the hood that is mounted to the sheet metal. The cable then enters the interior of the Motor home via a flat coax cable between the dog house cover. From there it goes up the passenger window behind the trim and is plugged into a splitter (provided with the DVR) and is plugged into both ‘satellite in’ terminals on the back of the DVR.
Then a coax from the #1 TV out terminal on the DVR to the ‘satellite in’ terminal on the Winegard distribution box. Then a coax from #2 TV out terminal on the DVR to the ‘aux in’ terminal on the Winegard box.

I removed both of the digital converter boxes. I had to cut a larger hole in the back of the entertainment cabinet to hold the new DVR. I used a Radio Shack satellite meter to fine tune the satellite.
So now that everything is hooked up I can watch one show in the living room while another show is being watched in the bedroom. The front TV operates from the ‘SAT’ button on the dist. box and the rear TV operates from the ‘AUX’ button on the dist. box. All the other dist. box buttons work the same way they did before. Also the bedroom remote is RF so it doesn’t need to ‘see’ the receiver to change channels or do other functions.
I plan on purchasing a tripod kit from www.tv4rv.com

[Fred and Bonnie]

Steve, am I correct in thinking your system is non-HD?

fred

[Belgian]

Hi Fred, Yes it is SD. The picture is very good though. I'm not sure what changes, if any, would need to be made to the hookup other than having a HD DVR. Do you know what would need to change if I were to replace the front TV with a plasma?

[Belgian]

brabono, The two coax cables you found in your cabinet may be for the roof satellite. On my roof there is a grey box for satellite hook up with two coax cables and two or three, can't remember, 12vdc wires with a plug. I couldn't find those cables behind my entertainment cabinet, though I didn't look that hard.