Need advice.....dish rear TV connection

[Jabber Jaw]

Ok....I have a 2004 Newmar Mountain Aire Class A on a Workhorse chassis.

I mounted a Dish(dual)Traveler on the roof to replace the old KVH satellite.
One coax comes from the satellite to the right side A/V cabinet, & I connected it to the Dish 211Z receiver, and it is connected via HDMI to the front TV. It works fine.

Now for the problem(s):

The second coax from the satellite...goes into the roof of the coach, & then I cannot seem to find where it goes. Any ideas?

Also, there is only ONE coax to the rear TV. It runs from the Distribution box (Box Of Many Buttons) to the rear TV.
Currently, I can find no way to hook up the second 211Z receiver to the rear TV! What are the possibilities, or ideas?

I first need to isolate where the second satellite coax goes.

Second, my only thought is to either run a coax across the roof & drill into the rear bedroom area, run a second coax, which would connect to the receiver, then an HDMI from receiver to the TV!

I'm baffled as to how to solve this problem!

Your help & advice is appreciated!

[Jabber Jaw]

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[Sbrownstein]

Originally Posted by Jabber Jaw

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Well, interesting problem but I guess none of us have any ideas about how to find where it goes.

[Spk64]

Since you are not sure where the other coax is running to and would like to see if it runs to bedroom.
You could invest in a simple tone tracer and track the wire down.
https://www.amazon.com/Extech-TG20-W...ateway&sr=8-10

[FatChance]

We have a 2004 MADP, so maybe ours might be the same. Both ends of the two sat coax cables from the roof come out in the front entertainment cabinet. Have you definitively accounted for the purpose of all the coax cables in the front cabinets? We have two from the sat dome on the roof, one from the OTA TV antenna on the roof, one from the cable TV connection in the power bay, one going to the bedroom TV and one going to one of the PS basement bays for an outside TV.

Are there definitely two coax cables on the roof? If you remove the sealing plate on the roof and pull on them, do any of the cables in the front cabinets move? We have some heavy strings in our front cabinet that are used to pull cables from below the sealing plate on the roof that seals the sat dome coax entering the roof, can you locate anything like that?

Do you have one of those tone generator devices that help identify cables? Pretty cheap on Amazon. Get one that works with coax cables.

For the second receiver in the bedroom, you have two options :

1. Use (i.e. repurpose) the existing coax from the distribution box to the bedroom TV to get the sat signal from that second sat cable to the bedroom sat receiver. But, this way you will not get the other A/V feed from the distribution box without messing with the cables each time.

2. Run new cable(s) from the front entertainment cabinet to the bedroom sat receiver. All you need is one new RG6 cable. I recently did this, but in addition to the new RG6 coax, I also ran a network cable and a HDMI cable from the front cabinet to be bedroom TV cabinet while I was at it, using the A/C duct for all but about 4 feet on each end that was fished above the ceiling. It was an easy weekend job once I decided on how to run the cables.

Here is a thread about running cables to the bedroom TV:
https://r.tapatalk.com/shareLink?url...4&share_type=t

[FatChance]

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[Jabber Jaw]

Originally Posted by FatChance

We have a 2004 MADP, so maybe ours might be the same. Both ends of the two sat coax cables from the roof come out in the front entertainment cabinet. Have you definitively accounted for the purpose of all the coax cables in the front cabinets? We have two from the sat dome on the roof, one from the OTA TV antenna on the roof, one from the cable TV connection in the power bay, one going to the bedroom TV and one going to one of the PS basement bays for an outside TV.

Are there definitely two coax cables on the roof? If you remove the sealing plate on the roof and pull on them, do any of the cables in the front cabinets move? We have some heavy strings in our front cabinet that are used to pull cables from below the sealing plate on the roof that seals the sat dome coax entering the roof, can you locate anything like that?

Do you have one of those tone generator devices that help identify cables? Pretty cheap on Amazon. Get one that works with coax cables.

For the second receiver in the bedroom, you have two options :

1. Use (i.e. repurpose) the existing coax from the distribution box to the bedroom TV to get the sat signal from that second sat cable to the bedroom sat receiver. But, this way you will not get the other A/V feed from the distribution box without messing with the cables each time.

2. Run new cable(s) from the front entertainment cabinet to the bedroom sat receiver. All you need is one new RG6 cable. I recently did this, but in addition to the new RG6 coax, I also ran a network cable and a HDMI cable from the front cabinet to be bedroom TV cabinet while I was at it, using the A/C duct for all but about 4 feet on each end that was fished above the ceiling. It was an easy weekend job once I decided on how to run the cables.

Here is a thread about running cables to the bedroom TV:
https://r.tapatalk.com/shareLink?url...4&share_type=t

Great answer!
Thank you so much!
Got to explore running the cable through the coach!

[Jabber Jaw]

Thanks to "Fat Chance" for his help and reply!
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