DirectTV

[lalow08]

I'm havin DirectTV installed and I noticed I only have one coxial attachment in my power cord area. I was told that I can't use that for Satellite (Monaco Owner told me). My documentation states that my 2008 Tropi cal LX is pre-wired for Satellite, I'm totally cornfused. Help.

[lalow08]

I'm havin DirectTV installed and I noticed I only have one coxial attachment in my power cord area. I was told that I can't use that for Satellite (Monaco Owner told me). My documentation states that my 2008 Tropi cal LX is pre-wired for Satellite, I'm totally cornfused. Help.

[RV Wizard]

Pre-wired is probably from the roof down to the entertainment center. The connection in the power compartment is for cable TV and is tapped into the power antenna splitter or AV switch box. It could be used but you would have to reroute the entertainment ent directly to the Direct TV reciever. Good luck and keep us posted.

[Bill Adams]

Do you have a roof top antenna? Most often the motorhome pre-wire is from the roof to a compartment where the receiver is expected to go. As Mike indicated, this is most often where a Video Control Center is located. It sounds to me that you have found the satellite cable as all of the other connections would already be plugged in. There would only be one coax available with a coach pre-wire since few if any manufacturers are up to speed with the requirements for multiple receivers and DVR's.
If someone told you that you can't use a particular coax cable for satellite, what did they say it was for?

[Cruzer]

Your basement cable can be used for satellite TV via an external dish/tripod. It just needs little work first.

Your cable TV hookup runs from the basement to the backside of your video selector switch. It's designed to pass RF, not the highband signal from a dish. The RF then gets routed to whicvhever TV, VCR, etc that you want to view it on by pushing the selector buttons. Running a satellite dish-to-receiver feed won't work in this mode.

But, if you add a diplexer to the top end of the cable you can use that cable for dual duty. The diplexer looks like a splitter bit functions differently in that it separates a high band satellite feed from an RF feed. You connect the RF output to your selector switch just like it is now, then connect the satellite output to your satellite receiver's input.

If you have a roof-top dome or dish you would have to swap the two cables around to select which dish (roof-top or external tripod) you want to use. This can further be simplified by installing an A/B switch to select either one.